Besides the daily love and care we show to our collections, the Herbarium has launched The Hand Lens as our way to tell the stories behind the specimens and to make the Virtual Herbarium more accessible to the public.  We...

For the past 25 years, The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium has been digitizing our collections and making them freely available online through the C. V. Starr Virtual Herbarium.  This incredible resource documents the world’s biodiversity and is the foundation...

The final version of a report entitled, “Extending U.S. Biodiversity Collections to Promote Research and Education”  is now available  (https://bcon.aibs.org/2019/04/04/bcon-report-extending-u-s-biodiversity-collections-to-promote-research-and-education/).   Both the full report (about 23 pages) and a shorter illustrated version (summary brochure) can be downloaded. Readers of the Herbaria...

The New York Botanical Garden has joined forces with Cornell Tech and Google to use herbarium specimen images and computer vision to identify species of melastomes.  Check out the details at the Herbarium Challenge 2019 – FGVC6.  Winners will be...

The C. V. Starr Virtual Herbarium has just added its four millionth specimen! This specimen is a newly described lichen species called Lecanora lendemeri E.Tripp & C.A.Morse. It was named in honor of NYBG’s lichen curator, Dr. James Lendemer. This...