New York Botanical Garden

At BOTANY 2025, NYBG's Cecilia Zumajo organized the symposium: "Evolutionary history of Gnetales" comprised of 6 talks & 8 speakers. She was joined by her mentee, Ormary Alvarez, who presented her research poster titled "Ovule development in the 'living fossil' Wollemia" 👏🌲 #NYBGscience

Sunflowers are full of secrets 🕵️‍♀️🌻 I had a blast making this for @nybg.bsky.social 's Van Gogh's Flowers exhibit, where you can see all the 🌻🌻🌻 shine through Oct. 26th!

#scicomm 🧪 #nationalsunflowerday #botany

NYC subway geyser caused by ancient Manhattan stream The 28th Street station on the 1 line is uniquely vulnerable to flooding.

Learn how decisions to pave over wetlands in the 19th century, paired with climate change, have left us in a pickle when it comes to flooding in NYC.

A person in a blue plaid shirt gazes up at the sunny green canopy of a forest while walking along a trail

Together with Botanic Gardens Conservation International, we've launched a global survey to understand and amplify the role of botanical gardens in ecological restoration. We invite all gardens to participate and help shape future priorities for collective action: www.surveymonkey.com/r/JS6GNMN

YouTube video by Global Mangrove Alliance eDNA Biodiversity Monitoring with Dr. Brad Oberle

NYBG's Brad Oberle joined @globalmangroves.bsky.social's Science to Policy Webinar on the genetic footprints (eDNA) left in the air, soil, & water by organisms, & how it can be harnessed to improve mangrove biodiversity monitoring 🧬📝 Watch here! --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmpA... #NYBGscience 🐟🍄‍🟫🦟

Dehiscent fruits in Brassicaceae and Papaveraceae: convergent morpho-anatomical features with divergent underlying genetic mechanisms AbstractBackground and Aims. Dry dehiscent fruits have independently evolved multiple times during angiosperm diversification. A striking example is the co

New #scipub by NYBG's Barbara Ambrose, Cecilia Zumajo, & team explores fruit development, revealing shifts in the developmental genetic factors of dehiscence and tissue patterning, suggesting a rewiring between basal and core eudicots 🌱 academic.oup.com/aob/advance-... #NYBGscience 🧬

Fighting Invasive Plants: The Ones We’ve Got and Those We Think Are Coming

In a recent interview with @nytimes.com, NYBG's @evecologist.bsky.social shares how being proactive with invasive species is key to preserving our landscapes. And if you’re a home gardener, it’s not just about reacting to invasives—but making sure you’re not buying them to begin with.

A group of students in summer clothes and backpacks tour an outdoor garden

This past week we were thrilled to welcome NYC Public School teens to NYBG's GreenSchool! From jobs in plant science to horticulture and education, we're proud to share the diversity of career possibilities available, and help root them in nature as we work toward a greener future for all.

Tall green plants in a mountainous field grow under a cloudy blue sky

In our final Plant People episode of Season 2, @mauriciodiazgra.bsky.social discusses how engaging with nature through travel makes us more inclined to protect it—and the ways that tourism can actually help our planet. 🌎 www.nybg.org/plantpeople/...

YouTube video by PBS Terra Why These Bugs Live Inside Plants That Eat Them

In a recent episode of the @pbs.org digital documentary series, Untold Earth, Dr. Rob Naczi, NYBG's Arthur J. Cronquist Curator of North American Botany, was interviewed during a segment on the fascinating world of pitcher plants. Check it out now on the PBS Terra YouTube channel.

Hitting the beach this summer? 🌊 Take a closer look at seashells and you might just spot lichens! These resilient organisms thrive in nearly every ecosystem, including on marine life. Check out this example from 1986 in the NYBG Herbarium --> sweetgum.nybg.org/science/the-... 🐚 #NYBGscience

Nurturing Nature Initiative: Why Botanical Gardens Are Key to Climate Resilience | New York Botanical Garden In a world where climate change and biodiversity loss increasingly define our collective future, the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is deepening its commitment to advancing plant-based solutions for...

Through the Nurturing Nature Initiative, we're working to unlock the powerful, often underutilized potential of botanical gardens—each a unique institution rooted in place, yet united by shared goals and capacities—to restore ecosystems, support communities, and sustain biodiversity. Learn how.

Plant People: Episode 9 | Let's Botanize In this week's episode, we join the hosts of Let's Botanize to discuss the importance of democratizing botany for a brighter future.

In this week’s Plant People episode, we’re joined by Jacob Suissa, Ph.D., and Ben Goulet-Scott, Ph.D., botanists and founders of Let's Botanize, a nonprofit dedicated to making plant science fun and accessible.

Head through to listen, and don’t forget to rate and subscribe: brnw.ch/21wTMX1

In June, the Society for Ethnobotany (SEB) held its annual meeting in Prague. Hosted by the Czech University of Life Sciences, 150 ethnobotanists from around the world convened to discuss research. Alex McAlvay was this year’s President of SEB, accompanied by an NYBG delegation. #NYBGscience

NYBG's Alex McAlvay is in Kenya launching ReMiCS: a project connecting farmers of diverse & nutritious mixed crops with local school meal programs. Jane Parker of Tharaka Nithi farms a 3-variety pearl millet mix, including "bird’s eye"- a bristly plant that deters birds 🐦🌾 #NYBGscience

Announcing the NYBG Science Strategy: An Innovative Vision for the Future of Research and Conservation | New York Botanical Garden The NYBG Science Strategy is a bold and forward-thinking vision for advancing botanical research, conservation, and innovation through 2030. Executive Summary  The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) has...

We’re proud to announce our NYBG Science Strategy for 2025–2030, outlining a bold vision for advancing botanical research, conservation, and innovation. Built on NYBG's legacy of scientific excellence, it ensures we’re leading the way in addressing pressing environmental and societal challenges.

Plant systematics is the study of the diversity of plant groups and all the relationships between them—and @botana-bedoya.bsky.social wades into extreme situations for her studies.

Get to know one of our adventurous NYBG scientists as she shares her passion for discovery.

2025 Plant Humanities Conversations: Soil Imaginaries | New York Botanical Garden Plants are the primary ecosystem builders supporting all life on earth and profoundly shaping human societies, from food and medicine to art and culture. Yet 45% of all flowering plants are threatened...

In the 4th session of 2025 Humanities Conversations, NYBG's Dr. Brad Oberle & Dumbarton Oaks' Dr. Yota Batsaki will discuss urban soil research onsite @NYBG, as well as the use of soil as living media in contemporary art. RSVP to join this free webinar! 🔗 www.nybg.org/event/2025-p... 🖼️🪵 #NYBGscience

Insights on Neotropical Plant Diversity from Collaborative Floristic and Systematic Studies | New York Botanical Garden Lowland Neotropical rain forests harbor more species of tropical trees in inventory plots than any other biome, but the underlying drivers of this diversity, as well as the historical assembly of the ...

There's still time to RSVP for today's 5pm webinar with NYBG Curator Dr. Benjamin Torke: "Insights on Neotropical Plant Diversity from Collaborative Floristic & Systematic Studies," discussing the evolution of Neotropical legumes & Amazonian flora 🌿🌱 #NYBGScience
🔗 www.nybg.org/event/neotro...

People work to digitize herbarium specimens using lightboxes with mounted cameras

NYBG was selected for a grant for the @bezosearthfund.org Grand Challenge for Climate Change and Nature. With this support, @ebsessa.bsky.social + colleagues are working on a proposal that lets us develop and test AI tools for plant discovery and ID to support conservation and biodiversity efforts.

New #scipub coauthored by NYBG's Leeann Dabydeen, Greg Plunkett, Ben Torke & visiting student Rafael G.Barbosa-Silva uses Angiosperms353 data to reveal key insights into Erioculaceae, challenging long-held views of its evolution/classification 🧬🌸 www.researchgate.net/publication/... ⛰️ #NYBGscience

Episode 1 | New York Botanical Garden Paradise Bronx In the first episode of Season 2, we explore the resilience and creativity of the Bronx through the eyes of acclaimed author Ian Frazier, whose new book—Paradise Bronx: The Life & Times...

Tune in to S.2 Ep.1 of NYBG's 'Planet People' Podcast, where Ian Frazier discusses his new book "Paradise Bronx: The Life & Times of New York’s Greatest Borough" celebrating the resilience & creativity of the Bronx, NYC's greenest & most diverse borough! www.nybg.org/plantpeople/... 🌿🌳 #NYBGscience

Ancient reticulation, incomplete lineage sorting and the evolution of the pyrenoid at the dawn of hornwort diversification AbstractBackground and Aims. Resolving the phylogeny of hornworts is critical in understanding the evolution of key morphological characters that are uniqu

NYBG's @ebsessa.bsky.social & colleagues' new #scipub explores the role of incomplete lineage sorting (ILS) and ancient reticulation in resolving interrelationships and understanding the diversification and evolutionary processes within hornworts 📄🌱: academic.oup.com/aob/advance-... 🧬 #NYBGscience

Students gather around display tables in a convention setting to learn about projects being undertaken by cultural institutions like the New York Botanical Garden.

In April, we joined the How Things Work Conference at Bronx Community College, where we taught students and educators about the Bronx River and borough environmental systems through herbarium specimens, a leaf pack stream ecology kit, and a demo of the Welikia Project 2.0 map explorer.

Can Ancient Farming Practices Tackle Modern Hunger? The Traditional Grains Mixture Project is focused on studying if innovations around an ancient practice — growing mixed grains in a single field — can improve global food security.

Here @alexmcalvay.bsky.social, NYBG Assistant Curator, dives into the traditional Ethiopian practice of planting two or more types of grain in the same field, creating crops with greater tolerance of weather variation.

Learn more: www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grantee-impa...

A person in a dark suit speaks at a lectern in a room full of painted murals

NYBG's @mauriciodiazgra.bsky.social recently delivered a keynote presentation titled "Celebrating the Royal Botanical Expedition of the New Kingdom of Grenada" at the Hispanic Museum and Library Society, where a copy of the expedition's resulting flora was gifted by the Consulate General of Spain.

Congrats to NYBG’s Fabián Michelangeli, graduate fellow Kate Samra & team on their new paper showing that anisophylly in Triolena species is linked to thermally stable and wet climactic conditions, rather than canopy-driven! 📄 --> onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌿🌧️🌡️ #NYBGscience

2025 Plant Humanities Conversations: Plant Extinction & Resurrection | New York Botanical Garden Plants are the primary ecosystem builders supporting all life on earth and profoundly shaping human societies, from food and medicine to art and culture. Yet 45% of all flowering plants are threatened...

On 5/14, artists Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Debora Hirsch share how their work draws from scientific research to explore plant extinction and resurrection through a wide array of techniques.

Get your spot for this free online talk with @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social: www.nybg.org/event/2025-p...

Updates from the Archives | New York Botanical Garden Thanks to a generous grant from Shelby White and the Leon Levy Foundation, the LuEsther T. Mertz Library is now able to process, digitize, and make accessible the institutional records of the New York...

Thanks to a generous grant from Shelby White and the Leon Levy Foundation, the Mertz Library is now able to process, digitize, and make accessible the institutional history of the New York Botanical Garden.

See some of the latest records we've made available: www.nybg.org/planttalk/up...

Advancing Floristic Knowledge and Conservation for Northeastern North America | New York Botanical Garden The New Manual Project More than 30 years ago, former New York Botanical Garden scientist Arthur Cronquist updated the Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada, orig...

🌿 Join NYBG’s FREE Science Webinar to explore the "New Manual Project" with Dr. Robert Naczi—delving into the advancement of North American plant systematics & conservation. This will be held virtually on May 7th @ 5pm! 💻Register here: www.nybg.org/event/new-ma... 🌲 #NYBGscience