Mums the Word
With their vibrant purples, deep reds and bright yellows, Mums (or Chrysanthemums) are always…
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With their vibrant purples, deep reds and bright yellows, Mums (or Chrysanthemums) are always…
Botany students must learn the structures of flowers in all their intricate variety.…
The Cactaceae was a publication written by the founder of NYBG, Nathaniel Lord Britton…
The lilacs are blooming here at the Garden, gracing us with their…
The Native Plant Garden is looking lovely right now! Some plants that…
Frances Horne was an academic, an artist and a botanist. She earned her…
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A beloved member of the NYBG community for over 40 years, Carol…
Addisonia: Colored Illustrations and Popular Descriptions of Plants was a journal published by…
If you're staying cool this summer in your favorite swimming hole, here are…
Always a destination for Mother's Day, the Azalea Garden is a spring…
It's springtime and the daffodils are blooming outside! In the herbarium, these…
Mary Emily Eaton was an accomplished natural history illustrator employed at the…
When mycologists collect mushrooms or other fungal fruiting bodies, it's important to…
Jean Baptiste François Bulliard was French physician and botanist, especially interested in fungi.…
Collecting plants and algae was sometimes an artistic hobby, with dried or…
We know Ellen Hutchins produced hundreds of detailed watercolors of marine algae. Some…
William Murrill became an assistant curator at NYBG in 1904, and was…
This specimen arrived as part of an exchange from another herbarium, wrapped…
Labels are as important to a herbarium specimen as the plant, alga, or…
In the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden there are over 30,000…
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If we were to give yearbook superlatives to herbarium specimens, these would…
Labels are as important to a herbarium specimen as the plant, alga, or…
Whether naturally brown, or turning brown during the preservation steps needed to create herbarium…
Creating specimens of palms pose a challenge to collectors—how best to trim, arrange,…
Unlike flowering plants, ferns reproduce with spores instead of seeds. Fern spores…
Herbarium specimens play an important part in plant science research. But the specimens themselves can…
Herbarium specimens are an important piece of a larger puzzle; helping people…
Grab a warm beverage and your favorite sweater—the colors on these specimens evoke…
People might pass over these green specimens 'cause they're not standing out…
People have been dyeing their clothing with plants since ancient times. All around…
As the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots during…
For decades, Studio Ghibli Inc. has been revered as one of the…
“Behind all scientific names are the stories of their objects, of the…
Artists find inspiration from an infinite number of sources, and many artists…