For the duration: Beyond NYBG, the safekeeping of…

Apr 25 2025

This is the second part of  For the Duration. To read about…


By Amy Weiss

For the duration: Segregation and annotation of type…

Apr 25 2025

This is the third part of  For the Duration. To start at…


By Amy Weiss

For the duration: The safekeeping of American herbaria…

Apr 25 2025

Specimen Stories

The bombing of the military complex at Pearl Harbor, on December 7,…


By Amy Weiss

Fruit-eating lemurs

Sep 26 2019

Specimen Stories

Given the abundance of tasty fruit, it is clear that many plants…


By Amy Weiss

Fruits of Rosaceae

Apr 22 2023

Specimen Stories

Flowering plants differ from all other plants by producing seeds within fruits;…


By Amy Weiss

Fungi + Algae = Lichens

Feb 6 2020

What is a Lichen? Lichens are a fungal lifestyle: fungal species that…


By Laura Briscoe

George Massee

Mar 21 2019

The fungal herbarium of George E. Massee was acquired by NY in…


By Laura Briscoe

George Washington Carver

Feb 5 2019

Collectors

George Washington Carver (1860s–1943) was an inventor, teacher, botanist, and mycologist (a…


By Amy Weiss

Geraldine Watson: Botanist and Activist of Texas’s Big…

Jul 31 2025

Women in Science

Geraldine Watson, born in Louisiana in 1925, never planned to become a…


By Luke Sparreo

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