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Specimens contained in the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium represent the endless…
Ascension Island: Volcanoes, Castaways, and Darwin’s Manmade Forest
One million years ago, a volcano broke the surface in the middle…
Autumnal
Grab a warm beverage and your favorite sweater—the colors on these specimens evoke…
Before & After: P. F. Zika 28277
The unmounted herbarium specimen, as it arrived at the garden in the…
Brown and Beautiful
Whether naturally brown, or turning brown during the preservation steps needed to create herbarium…
Celebrating Cryptogamic Botanists from Latin America
The Caribbean, Central America, and South America have long been geographical focal…
Chock-full of chromosomes
Cabinet of CuriositiesFocus on Science
Behold this fern which has the highest recorded chromosome number of any living…
Elizabeth Britton and the Curly-Grass Fern
Specimen StoriesWomen in Science
Tucked away in an office drawer of NYBG’s Fern Curator, Robbin Moran,…
Escapes from cultivation
Humans have a long history of moving and cultivating plant species. But…
Floral Fireworks
When fireworks are needed, no matter the reason, these herbarium specimens will help…
Granite outcrop specialists
Plants are amazing and can adapt to live in the most unlikely…
Greetings from Camp
Even if you have never attended a sleepaway summer camp, chances are you've gotten a…
It's not easy being green
People might pass over these green specimens 'cause they're not standing out…
J. K. Small's exploration in Southern Florida, 1915
John Kunkel Small, botanist and herbarium curator at the the New York Botanical…
Kauai Digit Fern
The Kauai Digit Fern, or Doryopteris angelica, is a rare fern found in the forest on…
Modern Art
Herbarium specimens play an important part in plant science research. But the specimens themselves can…
Polka-dot Ferns
Unlike flowering plants, ferns reproduce with spores instead of seeds. Fern spores…
Resurrecting from the Dead
I remember coming across Selaginella lepidophylla while imaging herbarium specimens for the…
The Many Colors of the Star Cloak Fern
While imaging herbarium specimens, I was struck by the unusual colors of…
Women in Cryptogamic Botany
As scientific perspectives of the Enlightenment movement fostered enthusiasm surrounding the acquisition…
Women in Genera
What's in a name?Women in Science
For as long as we've been using binomial nomenclature to name species,…