The NACPEC expedition in Appalachia journeyed to natural areas in Tennessee and Georgia, making more than sixty collections before heading to the Carolinas.
A NACPEC expedition in North America: Part 4
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A NACPEC expedition in North America: Part 4
by Jared Rubinstein, Living Collections FellowSeptember 27, 2019
Arnold Arboretum’s Michael Dosmann receives prestigious horticulture award
by Deborah Blackwell, Marketing & Communications SpecialistFebruary 25, 2019
Arnold Arboretum’s Michael Dosmann receives prestigious horticulture award
Michael S. Dosmann, Keeper of the Living Collections at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, was recently named the 2019 recipient of the David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration in recognition of his outstanding contributions to botanical exploration and horticulture. Awarded by the National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG), the Fairchild Medal was presented to Dosmann […]
Searching the Spontaneous Flora
by Jon Hetman, Director of External Relations & CommunicationsFebruary 12, 2018
Searching the Spontaneous Flora
A “spontaneous” plant is defined as one that grows and reproduces without human care or intent. In the early twentieth century, Arnold Arboretum botanist Ernest Jesse Palmer collected over 2,000 herbarium specimens to represent the spontaneous plants that occurred on the Arboretum grounds. Palmer wanted to know how spontaneous vegetation reacted to the drastic changes […]
Hunnewell Building, summer, parking area, 1980
by Larissa Glasser, Library AssistantAugust 11, 2016
Hunnewell Building, summer, parking area, 1980
Hunnewell Building, summer, parking area, 1980 Alternate Title: Parking area at the rear of the Hunnewell Building with the Herbarium wing in the right Photograph by Barth Hamberg Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States ca. 1980 A larger version of this image is available in HOLLIS, the online catalog of Harvard Library. […]
Migrations: Celebrating Susan Hardy Brown
by Larissa Glasser, Library AssistantJuly 15, 2015
Migrations: Celebrating Susan Hardy Brown
During her 30 years at Arnold Arboretum, Susan Hardy Brown prepared many thousands of herbarium specimens for staff and researchers. On the occasion of her retirement this month, we spoke with Susan to ask about her curatorial work, her career in the visual arts, and about the history of the Arboretum. Susan first joined us […]
Embedded Herbarium Specimens in the Library
by Larissa Glasser, Library AssistantJanuary 15, 2014
Embedded Herbarium Specimens in the Library
In addition to the many thousands of specimens collected in the Cultivated Herbarium, The Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library maintains a herbarium collection of its own! 288 dried specimens, encased in hard plastic, span a huge range of taxa collected from our grounds. Leaves and twigs, seeds and pods, cones and stems, these three-dimensional objects offer […]
Arboretum collecting expedition sources Midwest native plants
by Jon Hetman, Director of External Relations & CommunicationsOctober 28, 2013
Arboretum collecting expedition sources Midwest native plants
The Arnold Arboretum’s 281-acre landscape is a living museum, displaying plants sourced from all corners of the temperate world for conservation and study. To expand and refine these collections, staff participate in plant exchanges with sister botanical gardens and plant conservation partners, and whenever possible, collect seed directly from the wild. Recently, the Arboretum mounted […]
Biodiversity
by Cam Webb, Research AssociateApril 22, 2011
Biodiversity
In addition to documenting and analyzing forest composition, we will also be doing general plant collecting at all our sites to record the amazing biodiversity of this under-studied part of the world. We made our first collection during the hike into the forest: as I gingerly walked down the trunk of a fallen tree from […]
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