Aloe: The Plant of Many Wonders
Aloe vera is one of the over 300 species of Aloe belonging…
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Aloe vera is one of the over 300 species of Aloe belonging…
Extreme conditions at high-elevations tend to impede the establishment of annual plants…
Leaves and flowering stems flattened to the ground and outwardly spreading from…
These prototypical "cushion plants" are extreme alpine specialists. Short and dense branching…
Hairs are one way to deflect damaging UV radiation while locking in…
Lichens are the primary colonizers of new habitat in alpine regions. Unlike…
Temperatures may be low but sun-exposure is extremely intense at high-elevations due…
Climate Change can negatively impact Alpine regions by making them more susceptible…
Alpine meadows exist where soils have deepened and matured through centuries of…
Mountaintops have served as unlikely shelter for populations of cold-adapted species throughout…
The love of botany is responsible for both fostering and hindering this…
In many Caribbean and Latin American households, most of us have known…
Using a NYBG herbarium specimen, PhD grad student Lizzie Joyce turned back…
Although all plants need some water to grow, aquatic plants have adapted…
If you spend time looking at herbarium specimens collected by Arthur Cronquist,…
Recently walking on the NYBG grounds on a lovely spring day just…
Arthonia etymology unknown stevensoniana from Stevenson, honoring Robert Louis Stevenson, author of…
One million years ago, a volcano broke the surface in the middle…
Astragalus osterhoutii M. E. Jones (or Osterhout milkvetch) is an herbaceous plant known…
This specimen arrived as part of an exchange from another herbarium, wrapped…
Augustine Henry was one of the first and most prolific western botanists to collect in Central China,…
Grab a warm beverage and your favorite sweater—the colors on these specimens evoke…
Ships transporting cargo and passengers use ballast to stabilize the ship at…