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How to Read an Herbarium Specimen
- Maura Flannery
This essay provides an approachable overview of herbarium specimens and how they are used.
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Okra: An Enduring Kitchen Staple
- Allison Caban and Malek Charchour
Indigo: Layers of Paint, History, and Art
- Jordan Noelle Smith, Gianna Welty, and Hayley Blair
Soybean: The Versatile Miracle Crop
- Nina Elkadi
- Carol Chang, Heather Rose Craddock, and Alejandro Garay
Quinoa: From Indigenous Crop to International Superfood
- Matthew Turetsky
Cercidiphyllum japonicum: The Katsura at Dumbarton Oaks
- Abner Aldarondo
Eggplant: Food, Sex, and Poison
- Ana Carolina Carmona-Ribeiro, Nathan Cornish, and Sheila Scoville
Maize: Sacred Plant, Global Commodity
- Julia Fine
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Agave: A Plant with an Intoxicating History
- Ashley Buchanan
Arbor Vitae: In Search of the Tree of Life
- Ashley Buchanan
Ayahuasca: Amazonian Plant Lessons
- Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam, Diana Heredia-López, Rachael Nelson, and Erin Wrightson
- Ashley Buchanan
Black-Eyed Pea: Crop, Culture, Class
- Sarah Mallory, Emily Kamm, Haley Price, and Christina Hourigan
Boxwood: A Plant That Took Over the Garden World
- Anatole Tchikine
The Breadfruit's Reinvention: Pacific to Caribbean
- Elaine Savory
Cacao: Indigenous Network to Global Commodity
- Rebecca Friedel
Carolina Rice: An Agricultural Legacy of Enslaved Peoples
- Julia Fine
Cassava: From Toxic Tuber to Food Staple
- Christina Emery, Rachel Hirsch, and Melinda Susanto
Cinnamomum verum: Discovering "True" Cinnamon
- Wouter Klein
Cryptomeria japonica: Climate Change, Cultivation, and Culture
- Kira Bre Clingen and Edyth Jostol
Dittany: Women’s Herbs and Reproductive Control
- Ashley Buchanan
Dracaena draco: The Mystery of Dragon’s Blood
- Thomas C. Anderson, Cati Kalinoski, and Lucas Mertehikian
Eggplant: Food, Sex, and Poison
- Ana Carolina Carmona-Ribeiro, Nathan Cornish, and Sheila Scoville
- W. John Kress and Yota Batsaki
Indigo: Layers of Paint, History, and Art
- Jordan Noelle Smith, Gianna Welty, and Hayley Blair
Maize: Sacred Plant, Global Commodity
- Julia Fine
Mint: The Ubiquity of a Commercial Crop
- Victoria Pickering
Okra: An Enduring Kitchen Staple
- Allison Caban and Malek Charchour
- Carol Chang, Heather Rose Craddock, and Alejandro Garay
Peanut: From Luxury Food to Livestock Feed
- Maria Job, Elizabeth Chant, and Katherine Enright
Pelargonium: By Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet?
- Daisy Reid, Verónica Matallana Chaves, and Yao Jiang
- Ashley Buchanan
Sunflower: Knowledge, Myth, and Meaning
- Kristan M. Hanson
Soybean: The Versatile Miracle Crop
- Nina Elkadi
Quinoa: From Indigenous Crop to International Superfood
- Matthew Turetsky
Tamarind: From Shady Refuge to Versatile Foodstuff
- Allison Fulton, Amara Santiesteban Serrano, and Jeannette Schollaert
- Julia Fine
Venus Flytrap: Queen of the Carnivorous Plants
- John R. Schaefer
Watermelon: Stereotypes of Race and Class
- Anna Lawrence, Camilo Uribe Botta, and May Wang
Wild Yam: The Rhizome of the Pill
- Kira Bre Clingen
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