After nearly 50 years, scientists have finally figured out what family a strange Amazonian tree with tiny orange fruit belongs to. In 1973, a scientist stumbled upon a strange tree in the Amazon ...

Does the word herbarium bring up the image of a lush garden filled with luxuriant plants? Think again. An herbarium actually serves as a type of natural history museum, an archive of preserved plant ...

Researchers working with dried fungal specimens stored at Australia’s National Herbarium of Victoria have identified two new ...

Herbaria in North America are withering away. Collections of preserved plant specimens that have been accumulating for a century or more are being closed and consolidated as tight budgets and ...

With the eye of an artist and the steady hand of a lab technician, Janie Bitner carefully preserves some of the rarest and most delicate plants found in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Taken ...