AN HERBARIUM IS a collection of carefully preserved plants, a means of documenting where plants grow and recording details about their morphology (the physical properties of the plant’s structure).

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 ...

Deb Lewis is curator of the Ada Hayden Herbarium inside Bessey Hall at Iowa State. She is handling historic specimens collected by George Washington Carver and Ada Hayden. Credit: Christopher Gannon, ...

A study led by Bucknell University Professor Chris Martine, biology, Burpee Professor in Plant Genetics & Research, has identified a new species of bush tomato in Australia's Northern Territory, a ...

Greenhouse with 2 tables and 1 chair, 52 artificial plants (different types of plants "Made in China" or "Made in Thailand", installed in botanical plastic pots. Reproductions of different kind of ...

Barbara Baker has prepared more than 8,000 plants as posters, for scientific inquiry. Facsimiles of her work have hung as decorations in Gov. Asa Hutchison's office, and they adorn the halls of public ...

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 ...

A collection of 16,000 plant specimens sits quietly in cabinets at the University of Alaska Anchorage herbarium, preserving ...

Morphology of Solanum nectarifolium, a newly-described species of Australian bush tomato. “We couldn’t understand why the two collections of the same species kept showing up in different parts of the ...