A World of Botanical Illustrations: Japanese plants referenced…
For decades, Studio Ghibli Inc. has been revered as one of the…
Kate Furbish and the Flora of Maine
Catherine Furbish was born in 1834 in Exeter, New Hampshire. From an…
Jane Colden - America's First Female Botanist
Highly respected among her male peers in the 18th century, Jane Colden…
Typical: Gymnopilus pallidus
Some characters are altered in the drying process used to create herbarium specimens.…
David Hosack's Elgin Botanic Garden
Elgin Botanic Garden was the first public botanical garden in the United…
A Horse, of Course
Collecting plants and algae was sometimes an artistic hobby, with dried or…
The Cactaceae
The Cactaceae was a publication written by the founder of NYBG, Nathaniel Lord Britton…
Addisonia
Addisonia: Colored Illustrations and Popular Descriptions of Plants was a journal published by…
Frances W. Horne
Frances Horne was an academic, an artist and a botanist. She earned her…
Augustine Henry
Augustine Henry was one of the first and most prolific western botanists to collect in Central China,…
Violetta White
Violetta Susan Elizabeth White Delafield (1875–1949) was a promising young mycologist at the…
Mushroom Paintings
When mycologists collect mushrooms or other fungal fruiting bodies, it's important to…
W. A. Murrill
William Murrill became an assistant curator at NYBG in 1904, and was…
Ellen's Illustrations
We know Ellen Hutchins produced hundreds of detailed watercolors of marine algae. Some…
Typical: Astragalus cusickii var. packardiae
Covered in flower dissection illustrations by Rupert Barneby — we should all…
Banded Mottlegill
This mushroom was called 'weed Panaeolus' because it would frequently grow as…