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.
Tag: herbaria
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
How you can use online herbaria to learn about plants
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