Autumnal
Grab a warm beverage and your favorite sweater—the colors on these specimens evoke…
Ballast Plants
Ships transporting cargo and passengers use ballast to stabilize the ship at…
Be All My Sins Remembered
Up until this point, Ophelia has lived a rather charmed life –…
Becoming a mountain woman
Marie Mooar spent a lot of time in the wilds of western…
Begonias
The genus Begonia contains over 1800 species. They are native to tropical…
Being Loved To Death – A Third of…
As the many plants to be digitized in the Endless Forms project,…
Beware! Stranglers on the Loose!
Focus on ScienceCabinet of Curiosities
Meet the genus Cuscuta, or as I like to refer to them,…
Bioremediation
Bioremediation is the use of living organisms to remove contamination from the…
Black Pepper: King of Spices
It’s hard to imagine entering a diner, sitting down on the shiny…
Botanical Lessons
Botany students must learn the structures of flowers in all their intricate variety.…
Botanical Ragtime
Artists find inspiration from an infinite number of sources, and many artists…
Botany & Birds: Taking Flight
The exhibition on now at The New York Botanical Garden, is the work of…
Brown and Beautiful
Whether naturally brown, or turning brown during the preservation steps needed to create herbarium…