Post from Herbarium World on trees in Washington DC: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/was…

On Herbarium World, first post of a series on my hunt for herbarium specimens and art in London, this time at Natural History Museum. Thanks to Mark Carine and John Hunnex. herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/lon… #herbarium Digitising the NHM

Free online program from The Plant Initiative Strangers at Home: Plant-Human Migrations - a conversation with plant humanities scholars Yota Batsaki and Giovanni Aloi about cultural histories of two invasive plants, Kudzu and Agave. Thu, Sep 18. 2025, 12-1pm CT. eventbrite.com/e/strangers-at…

A definite must-attend this conversations between two of the greats in the plant humanities.

The other millennium dome: how Wales’s National Botanic Garden came back from the brink theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j… 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gardd Cymru 🌿 Garden of Wales

Officinal Plants Series 27: Saffron, France c. 1480 From Matthaeus Platearius, "Livre de Simples Medicines", MS 626, f. 58r, The Wellcome Library, London. #CSMBR #medicalhistory #Simples #platearius

Featured on the HathiTrust Digital Library: Useful Plants of Japan 🍃 The naturalist Tanaka Yoshio documented Japan's edible and medicinal plants with illustrator Hattori Sessai. A lifelong civil servant, he also founded Japan's oldest zoo in 1882. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.…

Art and science together: the best.

Post from Herbarium World on my wonderful visit to the Kew Herbarium and my meeting with David Goyder herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/lon… #herbarium David Goyder

The plant #taxonomy course for #conservation for 16 early/mid career scientists from 8 #African countries comes to a close today in #Nairobi after 5 weeks of intensive training lead by @KewAfrica team in collaboration with National Museums of Kenya, The East African Herbarium (EA) & University of Nairobi. 📸 NMK Media

Post from Herbarium World on my wonderful visit to the Cambridge University Herbarium @cuherb herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/lon… #herbarium

New on the blog: "Seeds for the Future: Closing Thoughts from BHL’s Wikimedian-in-Residence" by Tiago Lubiana ➡️ blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/07/seeds-…

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Maura C. Flannery @flannerm.bsky.social Duygu Yıldırım This question was addressed in this wonderful talk last January: youtu.be/bN-wLc6Jmx8

I've finished the eighteenth century! My clerical naturalists database now contains biographies and links for all individuals born before 1801, many of whose careers reach into the 1880s. You can find out more about the project and access the full list at brycchancarey.com/naturalists/

Post from Herbarium World on my visit to @linneansociety to see a wonderful collection of orchid illustrations herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/lon… #orchids #herbarium

Post from Herbarium World on British gardening herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/lon… #gardens

Slavery in Oman only abolished in 1970, Equatorial Guinea in 1979 and Mauritania in 1981

I'm glad it's not just me.

Post from Herbarium World: exploring exsiccatae at Kew Library, thanks to Anne Griffin herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/lon…