Visitation

…will be sent. In order to control herbarium pests, incoming specimens to the Vascular Herbarium are frozen for 48 hours or more. Users of the collection who bring specimens in…

Egbert Hamilton Walker

…good order and evidence of care he finds there, largely the work of Egbert Walker over many years.” Egberts taxonomic research centered on the Myrsinaceae of eastern Asia… He received…

Carol Enarson, CCCG, Master Gardener

…Gardener course at the Orange County Extension Office in Hillsborough in order to expand her knowledge relating to horticulture. Enarson explained that by becoming an Orange County Extension Master Gardener…

Work from Home Work-Study Students

When Carolina shifted to all on-line classes at the end of Spring Break due to Covid-2019, we faced the challenge of how to keep our loyal and hard-working Work-Study Students…

What is Therapeutic Horticulture?

…the individual’s life. (Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Disorder, Chronic Lyme Disease, back/joint pain, etc.) People who have experienced trauma, violence, sexual assault People who are in palliative or hospice care People…

Happy Birthday, Psilocybe!

…when ingested metabolizes into psilocin, a potent hallucinogen.2 Prior to shipping the specimens to Utah, Dr. Cotter photographed them for inclusion in our online catalog, mycoportal.org. One specimen (NCU-F-0009757) stood…

Spreading the Herbarium Gospel

…landscape plan included allées of trees that reinforced the formal arrangement of the road network, addition of open spaces resembling collegiate quadrangles, straight lines of trees along the edges of…

Joachim Heinrich Schuette

…California, USA), K (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, UK), L (Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Leiden University, Netherlands), NY (New York Botanical Garden, New York, USA), and US (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.,…