The Duke Herbarium, one of the largest herbaria in the country, will shut down and have its plants relocated in the next two to three years, according to a Tuesday email obtained by The Chronicle.

Duke Herbarium director Kathleen Pryer holds a specimen called the Gaga monstraparva. The Duke Herbarium contains over 800,000 specimens that can aid biodiversity research. Duke University is closing ...

Herbaria make fascinating time capsules. In a museum or university near you, there’s probably a room with pages and pages of old, large sheets of paper, each with a dried whole plant delicately taped ...

AMES, Iowa – The offices on the perimeter of the third floor of Bessey Hall on the Iowa State University campus have windows. A complex of four adjacent interior rooms across the hallway from those ...

Australian botanists have newly identified Solanum nectarifolium, or the Tanami Bush Tomato, from historical specimens ...

The New York Botanical Garden is home to the world's second-largest herbarium, a vital archive in an era of vanishing botanical collections. Amorphophallus titanum (Corpse Flower) specimen, which ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Living plants can’t stay the same from one day to the next and if you think the endless changes are problematic for the gardener, ...

This post was updated June 5 at 2:12 p.m. The UCLA Herbarium is making its collection more accessible through its newly renovated space and digital initiatives. Founded in 1930, the herbarium features ...