Discovering a Darwin Collection
Cabinet of CuriositiesSpecimen Stories
In the museum world, there's a sort of joke that you never…
The Lilac Collection
The lilacs are blooming here at the Garden, gracing us with their…
Don't touch
Plants have evolved many ways to protect themselves, from growing barbs that…
NY's Missing Species
When you think of a rare, endangered species, you may think of far-off…
Chock-full of chromosomes
Cabinet of CuriositiesFocus on Science
Behold this fern which has the highest recorded chromosome number of any living…
Astragalus osterhoutii, Osterhout milkvetch
Astragalus osterhoutii M. E. Jones (or Osterhout milkvetch) is an herbaceous plant known…
Elizabeth Britton and the Curly-Grass Fern
Specimen StoriesWomen in Science
Tucked away in an office drawer of NYBG’s Fern Curator, Robbin Moran,…
The Azalea Garden
Always a destination for Mother's Day, the Azalea Garden is a spring…
Milestones
Since its inception NYBG has focused on building an extensive and valuable herbarium…
Muhlenberg's Smile
Almost everyone can name an endangered charismatic megafauna. But most would be…
Britton's Chara
In the United States, there is no formal regulation for the endangered…
Granite outcrop specialists
Plants are amazing and can adapt to live in the most unlikely…
Kauai Digit Fern
The Kauai Digit Fern, or Doryopteris angelica, is a rare fern found in the forest on…
It's not easy being green
People might pass over these green specimens 'cause they're not standing out…
Being Loved To Death – A Third of…
As the many plants to be digitized in the Endless Forms project,…
Heard it through the grapevine
Vitis is the genus of one of the world’s favorite horticultural crop:…
The Biltmore Herbarium: Botany and America’s Largest Home
Biltmore, a Gilded Era mansion in Asheville, North Carolina, is America’s largest…
Typical: Gymnopilus pallidus
Some characters are altered in the drying process used to create herbarium specimens.…
Resurrecting from the Dead
I remember coming across Selaginella lepidophylla while imaging herbarium specimens for the…
Plants of Sítio Roberto Burle Marx
Roberto Burle Marx was an artist, a landscape architect and an early…
View of Sítio Burle Marx
This Calathea species was collected by botanist Helen Kennedy in Roberto Burle…
Beware! Stranglers on the Loose!
Focus on ScienceCabinet of Curiosities
Meet the genus Cuscuta, or as I like to refer to them,…