While some might press flowers into books to preserve their beauty, researcher Mark Whitten does it to preserve history.
Whitten, a botanist in the Florida M...
Five Facts About...
Air potatoes (in Florida)
Scientific name: Dioscorea bulbifera
This vine can be found in nearly every county in Florida.
Air potato bulbils. Florida Museum photo by Marc Frank
Fact 1: They're not potatoes
Surprise, righ...
Many folks seem to be under the mistaken impression that a herbarium is a place where herbs are grown.
Herbarium specimen sheet, Sedum. Images by Florida Mu...
Syncephalis plumigaleata, a Zoopagomycota fungi, grows on sterilized beef in a petri dish. Photo courtesy of the Zygolife Research Consortium
Walking along ...
Harmful plants have evolved to protect themselves from predators
It’s one of society’s hotly debated questions: ketchup or mustard?
For some, the harsh, acidic flavor of mustard is too much to handle on a hot dog or burger, but Florida Museum of ...
UF botanist’s new book to detail significance of plant life in Tolkien’s Middle-earth
This image of Mallorn-trees in Lothlorien from Tolkien's "The Lord of th...
Taken on the island of Crete, this photograph shows the typical habitat of bellflowers. Florida Museum of Natural History photo by Andrew Crowl
From the jungles of Southeast Asia to the Greek Islands, Florida Museum of Natural History botanist N...
The 9,700-acre Ordway-Swisher Biological Station is a near-pristine snapshot of pre-human Florida, with wetlands and uplands that include sand hills, swamps, m...
