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Look who stopped by the Holiday Train Show today—thanks for visiting,
@HillaryClinton
&
@billclinton
! (Pictured with NYBG's Joanna and Todd)
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What inspires you in nature? Share using
#nybginspires
for a chance to win a CHIHULY weekend from
@BankofAmerica
!
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Our corpse flower is in full bloom! You’re welcome to come pay it a visit until 8 p.m. tonight.
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.
@NYBG
thanks
@SenSchumer
for securing pandemic relief opportunities aiding New York’s cultural community. This assistance is critical to keeping the arts and culture sector afloat, supporting the livelihoods of thousands and protecting a critical piece of NY's economy.
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For the first time at NYBG, we’re naming a new orchid hybrid after a public figure and beloved native New Yorker. Vanda
@awkwafina
, a genus native to Singapore, is on display during this year’s show, and will be kept and cared for in our Nolen Greenhouses.
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Not saying the mention in the
@GilmoreGirls
trailer convinced our corpse flower to come out of its shell.
Not NOT saying it, though.
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Bloom cycle is expected to last 24–36 hours, so tomorrow (Friday, July 29) should also be a great time to see it!
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We're pleased to announce that after an expansive search,
@JChrisPires
begins today as NYBG's new Dean of the International Plant Science Center and Chief Science Officer.
Learn more about Dr. Pires and join us in welcoming him to the Garden:
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After weeks of anticipation, the corpse flower is NOW BLOOMING in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory—and today is your best chance to see it in all its stinky glory! 👃🌺
Can't make it in person? Be sure to follow the bloom on our livestream:
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Our sincere thanks to
@SenSchumer
for championing the
#SaveOurStages
program, which awarded close to $1.2B to over 1,100 arts and culture institutions here in New York—including NYBG. The Garden sends its gratitude.
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Organizations like NYBG are working hard with
@SenSchumer
to bring arts & culture back to NYC. Thank you for visiting Kusama: Cosmic Nature and delivering to NYC with
#SaveOurStages
and the
#AmericanRescuePlan
.
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As part of Master Drawings New York, this exhibit (up through March 9th) features the work of two eighteenth century women, Barbara Dietsch & Mary Delany, who were paper collage artists, and pioneers of plant paper collage! Learn more here -->
#NYBGscience
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Your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you. Our corpse flower (finally) started blooming! More info shortly:
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It’s happening! The
#corpseflower
began its bloom this afternoon. We'll be opening early this Friday, 6/28, at 9 a.m. for visitors to see it, and staying open late on Friday night for a Corpse Flower Happy Hour from 6–8 p.m. Don’t miss the moment!
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Ellen Hutchins is regarded as a prolific Irish woman in botany, studying cryptogams (non-flowering plants) in the early 1800s- a rarity at the time. Her work with seaweeds, lichens & mosses has helped botanists for hundreds of years 🇮🇪 🌿
#NYBGscience
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It always feels like summer in the Haupt Conservatory. 🌴
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Some of our biggest, brightest summer flowers are emerging in the Conservatory Courtyard. ☀️
While the Garden remains temporarily closed, the lotuses and water lilies are still thriving in the warmth of the sun.
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To all those magnolia lovers out there, this week is prime time for these fragrant beauties. Making a weekend trip of it wouldn't be a bad idea.
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Celebrate Frank Lloyd Wright’s 150th birthday with our friends at the
@guggenheim
museum on Thursday, 6/8:
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We thank
@SenSchumer
,
@RepRitchie
and the NY Congressional Delegation for securing crucial funds for Bronx cultural, educational & healthcare institutions – the fabric of our Borough – including essential funding for a net-zero NYBG operations center for our dedicated workforce.
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The act of preserving herbarium specimens not only serves scientific endeavors, but can also be used as an artistic outlet. This Bangia fuscopurpurea specimen was arranged into the shape of a horse in 1925 & has remained this way since! 🐴
#NYBGscience
🐎
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The late-blooming 'Kanzan' cherries and their purple tulip pals showing off recently. Stay tuned—we’re moving into crabapple and azalea season! 🌸🌺🌸🌺
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It’s big, it’s beautiful, it’s….’fragrant.' The corpse flower is in full bloom today, so we’re keeping the doors open until 10 p.m. for you to come catch it. Learn more about the plant and tonight’s Corpse Flower Happy Hour:
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You can still catch the corpse flower in bloom today as it approaches the late stages of its color and fragrance. We're open until 6 p.m. tonight, so don't miss it!
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Today on our Instagram we’re honored to partner with
@metmuseum
’s
#MetBreuer
for
#MuseumInstaSwap
! Learn more:
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From learning to recognize the songs of local birds to becoming an expert in small-space veggie gardening, there's a wide variety of engaging new online courses you can take with
#NYBGAdultEd
this month. Explore everything that we've just made available:
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It's a dinosaur in the plant world, and for the first time in 30 years, it's blooming in our Haupt Conservatory.
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Mallards are just one of the bird species that call NYBG home—and this year we welcomed new ducklings to the Conservatory Courtyard Pools, where they love to eat small plants and insects around the water lilies.
What are some of the animals that you look for when you visit us?
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Please find NYBG’s statement about a recent employee matter and investigation at the following link. As always, NYBG is dedicated to being a safe and welcoming environment for all:
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The cherry blossoms give you permission to tune out the noise of your Twitter feed and appreciate them in peace for a bit.
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Scanning electron micrograph of developing sporangia in Microsorum sp. (fern)
#plantfacts
#NYBGscience
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It's a painterly moment when fall finally comes to the hydrangea leaves. 🎨🖌️
(Hydrangea quercifolia Snow Queen)
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Please don’t begoogly our signs. But also, haaaaaa.
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With her new book "Herbarium" now on shelves, NYBG's Barbara Thiers joined our friends at
@indfnsofplnts
this week to dive into the past, present, and future of these important collections. Check out the new episode:
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The Orchid Show opens this Saturday, February 26, and Jeff Leatham is back with an all-new kaleidoscopic experience not to be missed. 🎆
Learn more and grab your tickets, and don't miss out on access to upcoming Orchid Evenings in March and April!
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Our bat flowers (Tacca integrifolia) sometimes likes to pop up for
#WorldGothDay
in May, but they're as happy showing off their wings in October—just in time for Halloween. 🦇
Look for them blooming in the Haupt Conservatory while you're here for the pumpkins and scarecrows!
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Heads up that we’ll be open 9 a.m.–8 p.m. to accommodate the corpse flower bloom tomorrow!
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After nearly 80 years, NYBG has a corpse flower on display! Follow the impending bloom:
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Some of the biggest pumpkins in the world are now on display at NYBG. 🎃
Top off the Halloween season by checking out these botanical behemoths, each weighing in at more than 2,000 pounds—but don't wait, as they'll only be here through November 1.
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Everywhere you look, November is painting NYBG with fall color.
From the rock outcroppings of the Azalea Garden, to the Bronx River and the Thain Forest, our many gardens and landscapes have been transformed for the season. See them this weekend, and find your favorite escape.
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Beginning this Saturday, February 20, our Spotlight on Orchids offers intimate displays of these beloved flowers in brilliant white and striking colors set against the foliage of aroids, ferns, and bromeliads.
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"Close to 100 species of neotropical
#Melastomataceae
are myrmecophytes: plants that have a symbiotic association with ants 🐜 Domatia structures are variable in morphology and these associations have evolved several times in the family." -
@pedoconnective
#NYBGscience
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Water lilies (Nymphaea) are more active than you might think. Catch a few of our residents in the Conservatory Courtyard Pools—including the flower of the mighty Victoria amazonica—flexing their petals to the cycle of the sun. 🌺⚡️
#plantlove
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Starting February 20 and continuing with reduced indoor capacity, Spotlight on Orchids offers intimate displays of orchids in brilliant white and striking colors set against the foliage of aroids, ferns, and bromeliads—planted as they'd be found in nature.
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The Chilton Azalea Garden is in fine form this weekend as we kick off our Mother’s Day Weekend garden party. If you’re still looking for ideas on how to treat Mom to the day out she deserves, grab your tickets and join us today and tomorrow!
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We're open today and celebrating the signs of spring! 🌤🍃
Have you spotted many of these fascinating flowers popping up around the Garden? Hellebores are a sure sign of the season's pending arrival.
(Helleborus × nigercors 'Honeyhill Joy')
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In the Azalea Garden, the leafy green hostas form a sort of pedestal of foliage for flowering beauty. 🌿🍃🌱
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Can you guess how big these water lily pads are?
The Victoria water lilies are a highlight of summer, and as the season winds down, you'll find their enormous, regal leaves unfurling in the Conservatory Courtyard Pools to soak up the sun.
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We’re marking the
#SummerSolstice
with a big announcement—a corpse flower is set to bloom at NYBG! An Amorphophallus titanum is now on display in the Haupt Conservatory. Its unpredictable bloom—and stink—will only last a day or two, so stay tuned over the next week or so!
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Daffodils and cherry blossoms are both at 80% of the way to peak bloom—don’t miss the opportunity to catch them this week!
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Don't miss the 1/20 talk from Dr. Douglas Daly, Director of our Institute of Systematic Botany. He'll be discussing the world of leaf architecture, the place of leaves in botanical study, and the role they have in systematics, conservation, and art.
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The Orchid Show: Singapore is finally here! This year’s escape to Southeast Asia opens Saturday, and we're excited to welcome you into this homage to one of the world’s great orchid cultures.
#orchidnybg
#plantlove
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Section through developing sporangia located in the sorus of a Nephrolepis cordifolia fern leaf 🌱
Sori are sites of spore production in this plant and are crucial to fern reproduction, as the spores germinate to form gametophytes.
#NYBGscience
#plantfacts
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Sciodaphyllum lasiogyne from Río Guajalito Reserve, Ecuador. It can be found in mid-elevation rainforests in Ecuador & Colombia. Sciodaphyllum was segregated from Schefflera via a joint project led by NYBG's Greg Plunkett & Missouri Botanical Garden's Pete Lowry.
#NYBGscience
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The artistry of paint, pencil, and ink capture the fascinating botanical diversity and history of cultivated plants in the online exhibit "Abundant Future," the Fourth New York Botanical Garden Triennial with the American Society of Botanical Artists.
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Tomorrow is the big day—we're reopening our gates for Appreciation Week, and with 250 acres of summer beauty there’s plenty of room to spread out and explore. Don't forget that we reopen to everyone starting July 28. See you in the Garden!
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Sciodaphyllum lasiogyne, collected at Río Guajalito Reserve (Ecuador), & grows in mid-elevation rainforests in Ecuador & Colombia. Sciodaphyllum was recently segregated from Schefflera via a project led by NYBG's Greg Plunkett & Missouri Botanical Garden's Pete Lowry
#NYBGscience
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We're excited to announce multiple PhD fellowships to study plant diversity and leverage NYBG’s collections for interdisciplinary research. Students should submit applications to NYBG and an affiliated university. For more info -->
#NYBGscience
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One of the most beautiful 19th-century works on America's tropical flora is the Flore d’Amérique, by Etienne Denisse. Learn about this
#NYBGLibrary
work from the
@biodivlibrary
.
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Our friends at
@guggenheim
have over 170 works by Degas, Kandinsky, Picasso, and more on view in
#GuggVisionaries
:
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Spring is eagerly blooming across the Garden grounds. Near the Rock Garden, the ascending weeping cherry is lit up with flowers, while in the Native Plant Garden, a Korean rhododendron brightens the landscape among an audience of autumn moorgrass, grassland sedge, and more.
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Rising from the Conservatory Courtyard Pools on long green stems, the lotus blossoms (Nelumbo nucifera) are some of our most eagerly awaited flowers—symbols of resilience and rebirth that open to the sky in vivid pinks and bright white as summer rolls on. 🪷
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With that, we conclude the phenomenal 2018 bloom of our latest corpse flower. Thank you to everyone who followed along with this event, and stay tuned for more information on the dissection of the flower by Garden botanists.
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For
#EarthDayNYBG
this weekend, we're opening up the Herbarium to show you rare, endangered, and historic specimens gathered over the centuries, like Penstemon payettensis and Arctomecon humilis here.
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In the warmth of the Haupt Conservatory, these Phragmipedium cardinale 'Wilcox' are stand-outs among the plantings of "Spotlight on Orchids," this year's showcasing of intimate displays of orchids set against the rich foliage of our glasshouse collections.
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It’s all about that centuries-old book smell on
#NationalBookLoversDay
. Especially in our Rare Book Room.
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Schizaea dichotoma is a small fern known as omoket in Palau & as nirid u numu in Vanuatu. In Vanuatu, it is rubbed on fishing line for luck. Putting a piece of the leaf 🍃 in one's hat when returning to town signals a successful fishing trip to the community 🎣
#NYBGScience
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We're excited to announce that NYBG is planning to reopen as part of New York Forward's Phase 4, which is projected to begin on July 20. Stay tuned for our official reopening date, which we'll share as soon as it's confirmed. Learn more:
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Just one week remains until 2018’s Orchid Show kicks off with a series of installations by Belgian floral artist Daniel Ost. Mark March 3 on your calendars!
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In the Mertz Library you'll find "Black Botany: The Nature of Black Experience," an exhibit that seeks to acknowledge the complex relationship between enslaved Black people, nature, and the colonial environment. Learn more in the latest from The Hand Lens.
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What's beautiful now? If you've passed by the Conservatory Courtyard Pools lately, the answer has to be lotuses (Nelumbo). 💫
These enormous, flamboyant flowers in white and pink are worth the wait each year, and the show is only just beginning.
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Today we're excited to announce
#plantlove
, a yearlong exploration of the essential connections between plants, people, and the environment. We’re here at
@GrandHyattNYC
with NYBG experts, revealing our programs and initiatives to get everyone involved.
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We're taking your home gardening and houseplant challenges and getting our NYBG experts' input. Reply with your question by Thursday morning. On Friday we'll follow up with answers, helping you keep your plants—like this lion's ear—thriving both indoors and out.
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New Mertz Library Acquisition ✨ "The Beauty of the Flower: the Art and Science of Botanical Illustration," in which Stephen A. Harris traces the history of botanical art from the 1400s to present-day. Check the book out here:
#NYBGscience
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This Encephalartos ferox, currently in our behind-the-scenes collections, is native to southeastern Africa, and is one of the only species of cycad to have evolved colorful cones like this. An ancient lineage of plants, cycads preceded the dinosaurs in the fossil record.
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After weeks of false starts and never-ending nor’easters, spring has finally come to the Garden! If you need us, we’ll be admiring the magnolias.
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We're excited to announce that tickets for the full run of KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature, through October 31—and tickets for Infinity Mirrored Room interior access—will go on sale to the public on June 24 at 10 a.m.
Learn more and find pre-sale information:
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A bird’s-eye view of the Rose Garden dressed to the nines in flowers. Not a bad time to pay it a visit.
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From traditional "kengai" forms to contemporary and imaginative butterflies, our Japanese kiku are the stars of fall. Experience them here now through 11/1, and revisit how the "ozukuri"—or thousand-bloom kiku—took form in the lead-up to our 2019 exhibit:
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Mauricio Diazgranados (
@MauricioDiazgra
), Ph.D., will be our new Chief Science Officer and Dean of the International Plant Science Center, and Eric Sanderson (
@ewsanderson
), Ph.D., will serve as the Garden’s inaugural Vice President for Urban Conservation Strategy.
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When there's a feast of dogwood fruit (Cornus florida) to be had along the Ladies' Border this time of year, the chipmunks always arrive with big appetites. 🍽
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In a new
@KewScience
report, NYBG scientist Fabian Michelangeli and colleagues found it takes 16 years on average for a tropical tree species to be formally recognized as new to science.
With extinctions rising, it's time to speed up the process:
#SOTWPF
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Earlier today we sent out a notice about our titan-arum flower bud, with a prediction that it would bloom this weekend—but the plant had other ideas!
The best time to see it will be throughout the day tomorrow, Friday, November 5. Learn more:
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In purples, pinks, and vivid reds, the tides of color in the Azalea Garden prove why this collection is such a jewel in the crown of the spring bloom. Get lost among its winding, sun-dappled paths, and take a moment to sit and soak up the May beauty.
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Cool spring days + sunshine + peak lilacs = a perfect sensory cocktail
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The view from NYBG's Plant Research Laboratory on snowy days. Science doesn’t stop for snow! 🔬❄️
#NYBGscience
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A big, bright, and beautiful holiday to you and yours from Rosa ‘Fourth of July’!
#MuseumFireworksShow
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While many are packing away christmas decorations, this one can be found year-round! Herpothallum rubrocinctum, AKA the "Christmas Lichen" has a red & green wreathed appearance. Check out this NYBG Herbarium specimen! 🎄:
#NYBGscience
#plantfacts
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.
@BioDivLibrary
is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives, providing free, global access to knowledge about life on Earth. Join us in the
#nybglibrary
next Wednesday, April 24 at 2 p.m. to learn to use it.
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It's finally here—The Orchid Show opens this Saturday, March 3! Stop in this weekend to see a series of installations crafted by Belgian floral artist Daniel Ost.
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💙 To our frontline and essential workers, thank you from everyone at NYBG for your tireless efforts in this challenging time. Tonight we join
@LightItBlue
and landmarks across NYC and the U.S. in shining a light on the crucial work you do each and every day.
#LightItBlue
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We're taking your home gardening and houseplant challenges and getting our NYBG experts' input. Reply with your question by Thursday morning. On Friday we'll follow up with answers, helping you keep your plants—like these smooth blue asters—thriving both indoors and out.
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Early sunset hues brighten the Haupt Conservatory Palm Dome in these final days of summer, highlighting the lily pads of the pools as September winds its way toward fall. 🌅
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With 189 species,
#melastomataceae
is the ninth richest plant family in Cuba. Impressively, more than 70% of them are endemic to the island where
#NYBGscience
has been documenting its biodiversity since its founding in 1891. 📸 -
@pedoconnective
#NYBGscience
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