Does the word herbarium bring up the image of a lush garden filled with luxuriant plants? Think again. An herbarium actually serves as a type of natural history museum, an archive of preserved plant ...
University of Cincinnati student Olivia Leek is showing me a small, prickly plant in a plastic bag. "My favorite specimen is just kind of silly; doesn't really have a deep backstory to it," she ...
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A rare collection of plant specimens dating back to the 1840s and originating from the southeastern United States has arrived at the herbarium at Virginia Tech.
Founded in 1907 by Cornell mycologist former Prof. Herbert H. Whetzel, plant pathology, the Cornell Plant Pathology Herbarium, or CUP, is the fourth largest museum of fungi in North America, home to ...
T his wildflower bloomed in the low pine woods along North Carolina’s Tar River. The blossom, called a pink lady’s slipper, was plucked nearly nine decades ago — on May 16, 1936 — and stored away.