Surviving the Fires of Australia
Amid the tragedy of the Australian fires, the Wollemi Pine is a…
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Amid the tragedy of the Australian fires, the Wollemi Pine is a…
Cabinet of CuriositiesSpecimen Stories
In the museum world, there's a sort of joke that you never…
With 7,800,000 specimens in our herbarium, reaching 4,000,000 specimens catalogued in our…
One of the earliest and most impactful scientific expeditions led by the…
Some characters are altered in the drying process used to create herbarium specimens.…
A herbarium's version of a double rainbow — a double type specimen.…
Covered in flower dissection illustrations by Rupert Barneby — we should all…
This type specimen is like a postcard from Hawaii reading "Wish you…
Specimen StoriesWhat's in a name?
One of the common names for the genus Erythronium is the dogtooth…
Bassett Maguire (1904–1991), a botanist who spent the majority of his career…
When a researcher names a new species of algae, fungi, or plant,…
George Washington Carver (1860s–1943) was an inventor, teacher, botanist, and mycologist (a…
Plant specimens come in all shapes and sizes, but they are usually…
Astragalus osterhoutii M. E. Jones (or Osterhout milkvetch) is an herbaceous plant known…
Biltmore, a Gilded Era mansion in Asheville, North Carolina, is America’s largest…
Joel Elias Spingarn (May 17, 1875 - July 26, 1939) was a…