Collectors

…M. Philson, Paul James Pilat, Albert Plowright, Charles B. Poilane, Eugene Pollack, William McCally Pomerleau, Rene Poole, James Plummer Porcher, Francis Peyre Price, Sadie F. Pyron, Joseph H. Radford, Albert…

Saving Cochrane Property

…will forever be honored. With a sales price of $725,000, the Cochrane property was no easy task to finance! The Foundation sold several residential parcels it had received over the…

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…

Random Walk through the Herbarium

…was 10+ feet high — and the only other herbarium specimen from Alamance County dated from 1956. So in the spirit of “document it once a century” we collected a…

Ferdinand Blanchard

(8 November 1851- 18 December 1892) “Earth is so full of things to know and see From Northern Lights to animanculae”   The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill…

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…

2021 Wildflower of the Year

…periods. Beautyberry typically grows 4-6 feet tall and wide, but in favorable conditions it can grow up to 9 feet tall. In order to keep a more compact form, it…

NCBGF Committees

…are in order; monitoring whether or not it is an appropriate time to pursue accreditation through the Land Trust Alliance and assisting the NCBG Conservation Department with that process; and…

Carnivorous Conservation

…Carl Linnaeus, a famous 18th-century botanist who developed the modern method of assigning species scientific names, dubbed flytraps “against the order of nature as willed by God.” But Charles Darwin…

George Andrew Christenberry

…“A taxonomic study of the Mucorales in the southeastern United States”. Pilobolus crystallinus in the fungi order Mucorales Image was created by Sava Krstic at Mushroom Observer   Published in…