Scientists have long been trying to reconstruct the appearance of dinosaurs. The tidbits they are able to piece together from ...

It’s mushroom season in the North Bay. Check out these upcoming classes to learn how to safely identify and forage for wild ...

They're housed in a room with head-high metal cabinets on rollers. Inside are shelves with seemingly all the wonders of the plant kingdom in boxes, bags and on archival paper. Wood samples from Brazil ...

Abstract: Due to the limited tropical plant field photos but increasing digitized herbarium specimens, cross-domain plant identification has been employed to investigate the use of herbarium specimens ...

A species of Australian native plant related to kangaroo paws has been named after the humble rotary clothesline.

Some 800,000 dried plant specimens from the 150-year-old Singapore Herbarium are being digitised using Picturae’s conveyor belt imaging system. Photojournalist Shintaro Tay takes a behind-the-scenes ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Thais Vasconcelos’ early interest in plants stems from her childhood in Brazil. “I used to love to go out and about and walk in the middle of nature since I was a little kid, and when ...

The seaweed, or marine algae, that you find in the ocean and washed up on the shore is a valuable source of information and innovation that can be important for art, science and sustainable climate ...

The Violaceae-Dataset consists of 345 herbarium specimen images (~50.9MB) representing 36 species of the Violaceae family native to South Korea.

Matthew Austin, curator of biodiversity data at the Missouri Botanical Garden, looks through Dogwood tree samples in the herbarium.. Austin’s research shows Dogwood trees are blooming earlier in the ...