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Mountain plants of southern South America
From Mary T. Kalin Arroyo: Over the period 16-17 September 2013 I had the pleasure to work in the herbarium at the University of Reading. My mission was to track down herbarium specimens collected in...
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The Symbiosis Project
‘Symbiosis’ is Imagining Science’s current collaborative project, about relationships between art and science, scientists and artists. We’re using the fungi-plant symbiosis that is lichen to parallel...
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Dye Lichens
The Herbarium (RNG) has been assisting me in drawing lichens for a Reading Science Week art Exhibition called ‘Symbiosis’. Recently I’ve been focusing on lichen species used in traditional dying. Below...
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Lichens of the Pacific Northwest US Coast
[T-B] Moss-coated trees, lichen and moss on tree trunks, and me with my hand lens, in Fern Canyon, Humbolt Redwoods, Northern CaliforniaAt the end of 2013 I had the pleasure of taking The Symbiosis...
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Herbarium RNG Questionnaire
Tom (on the left) studying pollination biology of the invasive Carpobrotus in southern Spain I am a third year undergraduate student at the University of Reading, reading for a B.Sc. in Biological...
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Mystery Ophrys from Cyprus – and the problems of giving species names to orchids
Last week two intriguing photographs of an orchid from Smigies in the Akamas peninsula, Pafos, Cyprus arrived in my in-box as an identification query to RNG herbarium. The plant was growing under pine...
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First field trip to Morocco
Jordan at Tizi-n-Tichka, Morocco 2015 I will focus upon the taxonomy of Narcissus sections Apodanthi and Jonquillae during my PhD project. I started in January and since members of the genus are almost...
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#AdventBotany Day 24: Juniperus communis – the most delicious of the...
By Meg Cathcart-James Juniperus communis with cones Juniperus communis is the most widespread of the juniper species. Juniperus is within the conifer family Cupressaceae. Whether as a small evergreen...
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