Milestones
Since its inception NYBG has focused on building an extensive and valuable herbarium…
Don't touch
Plants have evolved many ways to protect themselves, from growing barbs that…
Discovering a Darwin Collection
Cabinet of CuriositiesSpecimen Stories
In the museum world, there's a sort of joke that you never…
Attractive Frances Baker
This specimen arrived as part of an exchange from another herbarium, wrapped…
Newspaper time capsule: B. Maguire 23559
A trip to the field isn't always necessary to describe a new…
Before & After: P. F. Zika 28277
The unmounted herbarium specimen, as it arrived at the garden in the…
Myanmar Mystery Solved
Working in a Herbarium sometimes requires detective work. This Myanmar mystery started…
Elizabeth Britton and the Curly-Grass Fern
Specimen StoriesWomen in Science
Tucked away in an office drawer of NYBG’s Fern Curator, Robbin Moran,…