Hidden stowaways onboard ships sailing to New Jersey in the 1800s brought hundreds of new plant species that still grow in the Garden State today.
Tag - herbaria
Alun Salt
A.I. Assistant
A new life for centuries-old herbaria
Old collections of dried plants trapped in herbaria for centuries are acquiring unprecedented powers in understanding the history of plant evolution and improving biodiversity conservation, thanks to new technological...
Michela Osnato
Yew Only Live Twice
Biologists have talked about bringing back extinct species like the dodo, but now botanists have drawn up a list of extinct plants that might be able to return to the wild.
New Modelling Reveals Opportunities to Blunt Plant Invasions Before They Reach a Tipping Point
An examination of herbarium records has helped track the dynamics of plant invasions.
Do Thoreau’s observations and herbarium records see the same changes in fruiting?
Thoreau's last manuscript could help understand the future climate of New England.
Fi Gennu
How will plants cope with fewer pollinators?
A recent paper highlights a critical research gap, and reveals the potential for finding new data in old places.
Rachael Olliff-Yang
Historical trends in herbarium specimens could cause misleading observations
Extra care should be taken to avoid misinterpretation of data when looking at centuries-spanning specimens.
Erin Zimmerman
Systematics of extinct grass species resolved with sequencing of 167-year-old herbarium specimen
The work is part of a trend of increasingly ambitious genetic work on old specimens.
The National Museum of Natural History in Paris: one of the largest herbaria in the world
Karine Alix introduces a blog post by her students about a visit to the herbarium of the National Museum of Natural History of the Jardin des plantes in Paris The Jardin des Plantes in Paris was created in the 17th...
Guest Author
Plant collections and flowers for the start of the year #Countryfile
Why do we collect plants? Pat Heslop-Harrison finds out with the BBC television show Countryfile.
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
Genetic diversity of paper mulberry herbaria samples from the Pacific
For the first time, genetic diversity was detected among paper mulberry accessions from Remote Oceania.
botanyone
How you can use online herbaria to learn about plants
As part of Plant Facts Week (#PlantFactsWeek🌱) we present this post about online herbaria and the great things you can learn about plants and get involved in a citizen science project from Louise Marsh...
Botany at Oxford University is not 400 years old!
The first – and so far only – example of a root fossilized during active growth, which has preserved the cellular organization of the meristem
Nigel Chaffey