Botany & Birds: Taking Flight
The exhibition on now at The New York Botanical Garden, is the work of…
Vanishing Lakes: Tulare Lake
The California Central Valley was once a matrix of riparian grasslands and…
Vanishing Lakes: Owens Lake
The drying of Owens Lake is a human-made catastrophe. In 1913, the…
Vanishing Lakes: Salton Sea
Ingloriously described as “the biggest environmental disaster in California history,” and a…
Vanishing Lakes: Lake Poopó
Lake Poopó is a saline lake in the Altiplano Mountains of Bolivia.…
Vanishing Lakes: Great Salt Lake
Great Salt Lake is a shallow, highly saline, terminal lake situated in northern…
Botanical Ragtime
Artists find inspiration from an infinite number of sources, and many artists…
The Ames–Britton Connection
Specimen StoriesWomen in Science
Blanche Ames Ames (February 18, 1878 – March 2, 1969) was not…
Orchids in your Home!
Orchids are the largest plant family, with over 28,000 known species, and…
Dendrobium
With over 1,800 know species, Dendrobium is one of the 10 most…
Miltonia
Miltonia consists of 20 naturally occuring species and hybrids that are entirely…
Vanda
Vanda is a tropcial Asian and Australian orchid genus with 85 known…
Cattleya
Cattleya is a genus of 129 tropcial American orchids distributed from Costa…
Phalaenopsis
Phalaenopsis, the moth orchids, are perhaps the most commonly cultivated orchid. With…
Paphiopedilum
Paphiopedilum is genus of slipper orchid found in tropical Asia, from eastern…
NYBG 2022 New Species Review!
Every year, botanists describe hundreds of new plant, algal, fungal, and lichen…
Royal Symbols
Plants have been employed as royal symbols through time and across cultures.…