University of Michigan's Herbarium introduces new digital collection of illustrations.

"The original watercolors were made by Lewis David von Schweinitz, considered to be a 'father of North American mycology,' and date back to the early 1800s."

https://lsa.umich.edu/eeb/news-events/all-news/search-news/u-m-s-herbarium-introduces-new-digital-collection-of-illustratio.html

Luxus des Tages: Pausenspaziergang mit Frühling und somit der ersten offenen Magnolienblüte hier.

Rosskastanienblätter im Aufgehen

Kleine Wanderung im neuen Zuhause und #Küchenschelle gesehen dabei

Was Schönes zwischenrein: Schreibt mal wieder eine Postkarte in real life an eine Person eures Herzens Kleiner Move, große Wirkung in digitalen Zeiten … Wir haben dafür 10 ausgesuchte Motive aus dem Herbarium von Rosa Luxemburg als kleines, feines Set parat: https://dietzberlin.de/produkt/herbarium-postkartenset-4

Interested in working with us at the Australian National Herbarium as a Curatorial Technician with a focus on eucalypts?

https://jobs.csiro.au/job-invite/99298/
#herbarium #csiro

CBS News: Project aims to digitize 2.3 million plants at California Academy of Sciences. “There is quite the photo shoot happening right now in Golden Gate Park, but instead of models, the muse of choice is a collection of leaves, branches, and dried flowers. This year, the California Academy of Sciences hopes to digitize its entire global botany collection that stretches back to the 17th […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/13/cbs-news-project-aims-to-digitize-2-3-million-plants-at-california-academy-of-sciences/

A couple of snapshots from the VNPS Potowmack Chapter's "grass bunch" first visit to the #herbarium in the botany department of the National Museum of American History: http://www.ahoneyofananklet.com/2025/03/10/working-in-the-herbarium-1/

#Herbarium specimens often lose their colours and turn brownish. But sometimes colours persist, especially when material was dried quickly.
This #Anemone sends a colourful spring greeting from the NHM London on a grey February day.
#HerbariumLife #CuratorLife

Arsenic used to preserve #herbarium specimens:

@botanyone

https://botany.one/2025/02/an-anonymous-botanist-has-poisoned-a-herbarium-in-new-york-in-an-unusual-way/

The award for best project name goes to “The Dead Plant Society”, a collaboration between social change charity Space2 and Leeds Museums and Galleries that will study hundreds of thousands of herbarium sheets to measure changing levels of pollution and air quality.

#herbarium

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czj3ppdgvkyo

Dietz-Geschenke, Tipp 14 Eigentlich wollte sie Botanik studieren: #RosaLuxemburg. Überall sammelte sie Pflanzen, in der Freiheit wie im Gefängnis. Bis Oktober 1918 füllte sie insgesamt 16 Schulhefte. Unser Postkartenset aus ihrem #Herbarium enthält 10 Motive (9,90 €) und erfreut alle Naturverbundenen: https://dietzberlin.de/produkt/herbarium-postkartenset-4

Thanks to #PilotPen for bringing together #herbarium art with their gorgeous Iroshizuku bottles. Looking forward to more activities at our new event space at PenGallery SS2.

Preparing some herbarium sheets for display in our new dinosaur gallery. All of these plant groups – a fern, cycad, and horsetails – were around during dinosaur times.

Installation of this new gallery has been a little delayed but we're planning to open in October if all goes to plan.

Just coming back from the INCT Herbário Virtual da Flora e dos Fungos meeting in Recife. This INCT (National Science and Technology Institute) unites Brazilian and international herbaria+fungi collections collaborating over many years on the creation of a virtual herbarium open to the public. Amazing integration of the many regional, small to medium sized herbaria in the country!

https://specieslink.net/search

Rare #orchid discovered at #Denver #BotanicGardens Chatfield Farms https://www.denverpost.com/2024/07/23/coralroot-orchid-discovered-denver-botanic-gardens-chatfield-farms/ #plants #fungi #orchids

A #StripedCoralrootOrchid has never been documented at #ChatfieldFarms, and the only other time a Jefferson County specimen was collected for a #herbarium was in 1905... Striped coralroots are unique because they don’t gather energy from the sun through #photosynthesis. Instead, they gather energy and nutrients through a #fungus on the roots of a host plant.