With specimens dating back to Captain Cook's maiden voyage, the Western Australian Herbarium is something of a botanical time machine. The herbarium houses some of Australia's oldest recorded plant ...

AMES, Iowa – The offices on the perimeter of the third floor of Bessey Hall on the Iowa State University campus have windows. A complex of four adjacent interior rooms across the hallway from those ...

The Duke Herbarium, one of the largest herbaria in the country, will shut down and have its plants relocated in the next two to three years, according to a Tuesday email obtained by The Chronicle.

Duke Herbarium director Kathleen Pryer holds a specimen called the Gaga monstraparva. The Duke Herbarium contains over 800,000 specimens that can aid biodiversity research. Duke University is closing ...

In May, the museum completed a groundbreaking digitization process that brought nearly four million pressed plants online. Jack Tamisiea With the help of a conveyor belt and high-speed camera, members ...

Rows of meticulously tended grapevines sprawled across large vineyards, with a sweet, fruity aroma wafting through the air are classic features of America’s thriving wine industry. However, in the ...

William & Mary’s herbarium (WILLI) has come a long way since its official founding in 1968. Today, it houses more than 81,500 accessioned specimens—an impressive record of vascular plants from the ...

Specimens are carefully mounted on paper, tagged and then stored in the catacombs of cabinets that make up the main herbarium collection. Each specimen is archived according to its classification and ...