Ginger and Chiya
Ginger, also known as Zingiber officinale is native to tropical climates like…
Good grief, Charles Geyer
Charles (Karl) A. Geyer was a pioneer botanical collector of the Northwestern…
Granite outcrop specialists
Plants are amazing and can adapt to live in the most unlikely…
Greetings from Camp
Even if you have never attended a sleepaway summer camp, chances are you've gotten a…
Gross
Sometimes collecting the perfect specimen means going places you'd rather not. Here…
Heard it through the grapevine
Vitis is the genus of one of the world’s favorite horticultural crop:…
Herbarium Specimens Show Changes in Carbon Dioxide Levels
It has been documented that since the industrial revolution there has been an…
Herbarium Specimens Show Changes in the Landscape
Changing climate means changing landscapes. Herbarium specimens document what plants are growing in…
Hidden Women Botanists - Mrs. Herbert Huntington Smith
The NYBG herbarium has over two thousand specimens that are labeled as collected…
Hitchhikers
Some plants have evolved to literally hitchhike on passing animals. They have…
Honoring the Quechua Language
What's in a name?Specimen Stories
Quechua is a family of indigenous languages spoken by the Quechua peoples of…
Iconic plants of the Amazon
The Amazon Rain Forest, Earth’s largest tropical rain forest, is an immense…
Incised fumewort
A new invasive, this relative of the Bleeding Heart was recently found…
Indicators of past settlement
Humans alter the environments where they live and we can use those…
Insect Zombies
Cordyceps are parasitic fungi that often parasitize insects in a way that…
Isabella Aiona Abbott: First Lady of Limu
Before Dr. Isabella Aiona Abbott became the first Native Hawaiian woman to…
It's not easy being green
People might pass over these green specimens 'cause they're not standing out…