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What’s it like working with Kew’s Herbarium collection?
One of Ellen’s main tasks at Kew was working on the Africa ‘naming wall’ – an area where unidentified specimens are stored, waiting for expert attention. Each specimen is sorted by plant family and ...
California State University, Sacramento7d
Sac State professor restores dormant campus herbarium, offering new opportunities for research and learning
Sac State’s herbarium lay dormant for nearly 20 years until Biology Professor Marina LaForgia joined the University. Now it ...
A British surgeon’s documentation of the flora in 17th Century Madras
Samuel Browne's botanical explorations in 17th-century Madras offer insights into traditional plant uses and changing flora ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN13d
Nearly Half of the Colorful and Charismatic Heliconia Tropical Plant Species Are Threatened With Extinction, New Study Reveals
Using data from over 10,000 herbarium specimens, Smithsonian scientists uncover the urgent conservation needs of the plants, ...
KCUR 89.3 FM25d
Plant libraries hold essential clues about climate change, but they're vulnerable to funding cuts
Early last year an announcement sent waves through the botany community — Duke University planned to get rid of its herbarium, a collection of more than 800,000 specimens. “I was called into ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
A New Course by ForestGEO Experts Teaches the Biodiversity of Panamanian Forests
Through a course in dendrology, the study of the taxonomy of woody plants in the absence of flowers or fruits, two experts in ...
MyCentralJersey25d
New Brunswick is home to the only internationally-recognized herbarium in NJ
It has catalogued a worldwide collection with an emphasis on New Jersey and the Mid-Atlantic area, with specimens dating back to the mid-1800s. The herbarium regularly hosts research visits and ...
DNA and 90 million-year-old pollen fossils reveal new insights into evolution of Asian tropics
In a new study published today in Science, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), together with global ...
The Cornell Daily Sun20d
The Scientists Behind Cornell’s Mushroom Museum
For Teresa Iturriaga, the curator of CUP, fascination with these tiny mushrooms began during her doctoral studies in mycology ...
The Chronicle27d
Paper promises, priceless losses: The closure of Duke’s herbarium
Furthermore, as Griebeler’s research demonstrated, the herbarium is more than just a repository of plant specimens — it is also a hub of expertise. The knowledge tied to these collections is ...