Explore a Seven-Layer Forest Garden

…the Loovis garden as well as four other private gardens and the NCBG are $30 in advance and available online at chgc2024gardentour.eventbrite.com. Eventbrite vouchers will be redeemed on Tour days…

Happy Birthday, Psilocybe!

…cubensis. The genus name is derived from the Greek and means “bare head,” while the specific epithet means “coming from Cuba” and refers to the type locality where Franklin Sumner…

Therapeutic Horticulture History and Staff

…surrounding communities have benefited from the dedicated leadership of several passionate program managers: Judy Carrier: 1978-1984 Bibby Moore: 1984-1992 Nancy Easterling: 1992-2009 Sally Haskett: 2009- 2021 Emilee Weaver: 2022-present Read

Samuel McCutchen Bain

…would take care of itself. As he had never had a teacher of Botany himself, he developed his own peculiar methods of presenting the subject. Through his wide study and…

Tree Cores Come to the Herbarium

…collected from the Gulf Islands National Seashore in Gulf Breeze, Florida. As we have never had tree cores in our collection, I asked for more details – what species of…

Floras

…U.S. In 2015, the UNC Carolina Apps Program teamed up with NCU Herbarium and NCBG staff to develop the iPhone/iPad application FloraQuest. This app allowed for mobile identification of over…

John White Chickering, Jr.

…purpose of collecting alpine plant specimens. 10 It is interesting that Edward S. Morse, curator of PSNH ca. 1866, went on to become the director of the Peabody Museum at…

Clifford R. Parks

…The title of his Ph.D. dissertation was “Floral pigmentation studies in the genus Gossypium” and his thesis advisor was Dr. Stanley George Stephens. In addition to studying Gossypium at North…