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Celebrating 20 Years: Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
Photo by Matthew Westmoreland for UNC Research 2020 marks the 20th anniversary of the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP), the largest ex situ plant conservation effort in the world. Led…
Spelunking in The Caves of Chapel Hill
by Carol Ann McCormick Curatrix of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) One of the challenges of cataloging herbarium specimens — algae, fungi, mosses, vascular…
Luther Stanford Beard
(21 February 1929 – 22 November 2012) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates over 270 vascular plant specimens collected by Luther Stanford Beard. Without doubt…
Charles Ferson Durant
(1805-1873) The pleasure experienced [in the study of algae] is ample remuneration for the patient industry required in its pursuit. The gay iridescent plants seem tempting; the shore scenery is…
Mushrooms whose White Spores turn Bluish-Black
by Van Cotter, UNC Herbarium Associate Figure 1. Amyloid ornamentation of Lactarius basidiospores. Mushroom identification relies on many tricks of the trade. One of the fun tricks is treating white…
Algae, Merritt’s BLT, and Literature Converge in an Herbarium Loan
As one of the largest herbaria in the southeastern United States, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) loans thousands of specimens to researchers around the world…
Charles “Chuck” Lewis McCartney, Jr.
(25 April 1947 – 11 October 2020) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged 61 vascular plant specimens collected by Charles “Chuck” Lewis McCartney, Jr….
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Wade Swann Neely
(28 November 1892 – 18 August 1940) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium has cataloged to date a handful of vascular plant specimens collected by Wade Swann…