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Emory Herbarium is now on Social Media

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Cassandra Leah Quave

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The Emory University Herbarium has established a Twitter feed and Facebook page. Stay up to date on all of the activities and events happening at the Emory Herbarium! “Like” us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

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Such a ordinary looking climber... but has deadly

Such a ordinary looking climber... but has deadly poisonous alkaloids. This is pareria plant (Chondrodendron tomentosa) which use to make curare poison. Many South American indigenous people use arrows and blowgun darts dipped in curare to kill their prey. The toxin is harmful if only enters to the blood stream. Thus, curare poisoned prey is safer to eat. #curare #poisonousplants #nurotoxins #alkaloid #arrow #poisondart #amazonforest @atlbotanical

Why Passionflowers are so beautiful 😍? This nat

Why Passionflowers are so beautiful 😍? This native plant is completely edible - leaves, roots, flowers and fruits. But in the USA the most commonly used part is its fruit. But leaves are edible raw leafy green or as cooked in curries soup or pasta. This plant has a number of medicinal properties. Traditionally leaves used as a natural sedative and to calm your nerves. Some countries officially approved to use this to treat nervous unrest.
On top of all, 🐝 bees, hummingbirds, moths, butterflies feed on passionflowers. Also act as a larva host to various butterflies. #wildedibles #butterflyplants #passionfruit #nectarplants #wildflowers #herbalmedicine #medicinalplants

Dumortier’s liverwort at Peavine creek. This liv

Dumortier’s liverwort at Peavine creek. This liverwort often forms thick conspicuous mats by streams, on wet rocks or on any seepage area. Unlike other common liverworts this species doesn’t have air pores or network of lines on its thalli thus easy to distinguish. Scientific name Dumortiera hirsuta implies its prominent bristles found especially on the thallus margin and reproductive structures. #liverwort #marchantiales #nonvascularplants #primitiveplants #natureplants #wetlandplants

Two crustose lichen species looks same but have di

Two crustose lichen species looks same but have different color apothecia.. The above one called bloodstain🩸lichen (Haemotomma sp.) referring to red apothecia. Below one is a Lecanora species which has brown color apothecia. Latin name Lecanora means “ beautiful small bowls” 🍲 also refers brown color apothecia #lichen #lecanora #pioneers #crustoselichen #crustose #apothecium #emoryuniversity

Snakeskin liverwort 🐍 aka the great scented liv

Snakeskin liverwort 🐍 aka the great scented liverwort. This is a native liverwort, commonly growing in any seepage areas. As name implies, it is aromatic when pulverized. But each gives contradictory descriptions: Some says it has a pleasant smell while others detect a foul smell like urine or fecal mater.
It has been found that extracts of this liverwort have antibiotic activity thus potential use as a medicine. There are records that many cultures use this plant to treat, bites, boils, burns, cuts, eczema, wounds and gallstones. #liverwort #thalli #marchantia #primitiveplants #conocephalum #medicinalherbs #emoryuniversity
Photo credit: Sean Beeching

Too bad lichens don’t have common names. Pyxine

Too bad lichens don’t have common names. Pyxine subcinerea is a lichen that is widely distributed tropics subtropics and temperate regions. You can easily identify this from its round or thallus shape with raised edges. Thallus has a olive gray to yellowish grey color. Also edges has powdery covering of chemical deposits which known as “pruina”. Lichens are not bioluminescent but some lichens show completely different color under UV light. This one will appear bright yellow under UV light. #lichen #pruina #epiphyte #lullwaterpark #naturelovers

Jelly fungus aka witch's butter, ear fungi👂. Th

Jelly fungus aka witch's butter, ear fungi👂. This mass of gelatinous fungi has brain-like lobes 🧠. Although this one appears to be growing on the wood, it is actually a parasitic on the mycelium of another crust fungus 🍄 in the genus Peniophora. Field guides refer it as an edible but also noted it is insubstantial with little flavor. #jellyfungus #fungus #parasite #mushrooms #ediblemushrooms #wildforaging #lulwaterpark #earfungus #tremella
photo credit: Sean Beeching

Can’t stop posting mushrooms. Now they are every

Can’t stop posting mushrooms. Now they are everywhere. Another gigantic fairy ring mushroom. This one also has green spores and it is poisonous. Mushroom gills or the thin papery structures that hang vertically under the cap are important when identifying mushrooms. At the edges of gills millions of spores are produced and then dispersed even by a slightest movement of the wind current. #mushrooms #fungi #agaricus #fairyring #gills #forestfloor #grasslands #decomposers #lullwaterpark

After the rain you will see jelly fungus every whe

After the rain you will see jelly fungus every where. This one seems just started to emerging and hasn’t reached its fully growth yet. After couple of days fungus will dry out “disappear” then get gooey again in the next rain. I think this is a paler version of a yellow Tremella species.
Jelly fungi are not poisonous but not consumable either. #mushrooms #jellyfungus #jellyfungi #tremella #decomposers #forestfloor #lullwaterpark

Pretty green spored fungus. This is a common mushr

Pretty green spored fungus. This is a common mushroom which is often make large fairy rings 🧚‍♀️ in grassy yards in southern USA. This mushroom is toxic and easily can be confused with another common edible fairy ring mushroom in the same genus. But close inspection however, reveals this species has distinctive greenish spores according to its name. Chlorophyllum molybdites (Agaricaceae) #fungi #mushrooms #toxicmushroom #wildedibles #fairyrings #saprophyte #decomposers #lullwaterpark #emoryuniversity
Photo credit: Sean Beeching

Another one taking advantage of deserted campus pr

Another one taking advantage of deserted campus premises. 🍄🍄🍄
This is a group of fragile quick growing mushrooms that sometimes (not all species) turn to black "ink" in a few days. It is easy to recognize them with deeply pleated bell 🔔shape caps.
This is an edible mushroom! But it is insubstantial & bland, sauteing with few spices can bring up some flavor. I think this one is Corprinellus disseminatus known as non inky coprinus or little helmets ⛑#ediblemushrooms #mushrooms #fungi #saprobic #agaricales #emoryuniversity #fungarium #wildedibles photo credit: Sean beeching

It is a known fact that Lichens are sensitive to a

It is a known fact that Lichens are sensitive to air quality. You'll never get a better time than this pandemic to study Lichens. In general, Emory University has a higher diversity of lichens. Recent collection revealed that the number of species doubled within this short period of time with a lesser air pollution. Even number of species that are known to be air quality sensitive are newly appeared on campus. Pictures are some common Atlanta lichens with fruiting bodies on a red Maple tree. Parmotrema chinense (with asexual reproductive structures called soredia), Canoparmelia texana and Ochrolechia africana (with sexual reproductive structures called apothecia), a stunted Usnea strigosa, (fruticose/ bushy lichen), and Punctelia rudecta (with asexual reproductive structures called Isidia) photo credit Sean Beeching
#lichen #airpolution #climatechange #climatesensitive #sensitive #pandemic2020 #covid19 #emoryuniversity

These strange orange things are fruiting bodies of

These strange orange things are fruiting bodies of a slime mold. When a slime mold is in its plasmodial stage, it moves together from one food source to another. When the environment is humid and have excess food it makes reproductive structures with spores which looks like tiny mushrooms. I think this slime mold is Trichia decipiens which is later become yellow and brown. Photo credit: Sean Beeching . #slimemold #micology #plasmodium #forestfloor #sporangia #fruitingbodies

Scarlet Morning Glory is smaller than most other n

Scarlet Morning Glory is smaller than most other native morning-glories but prettier. Seeds used in traditional Chinese medicine for constipation, parasitosis and to make anti-inflammatory decoctions. #morninglory #convolvulaceae #weeds #invasivespecies #herbalmedicine

Chickasaw Plum (Prunus angustifolia) is a plum nat

Chickasaw Plum (Prunus angustifolia) is a plum native to Southeastern USA. Mostly cultivated by the native Indians before arrival of European settlers. Fruits are somewhat tart and acidic to eaten raw therefore best when made into jellies and jams. #prunes #wildedibles #rosaceae #nativeamerican #chickasaw

Forked bluecurls with their characteristic showy h

Forked bluecurls with their characteristic showy hair-like long curled stamens. This is a herbaceous wild flower native to eastern United state with a wide range. You will see flowers from late Summer to Fall. #wildflowers #southeasternflora #lamiaceae #mintfamily

Cloudless sulphur butterflies on a purple poterwee

Cloudless sulphur butterflies on a purple poterweed plant (Stachytarpheta frantzii) #butterfly #butterflies #butterflyplants #nectar #wildflowers

Elliott's Blueberry, Mayberry (Vaccinium elliottii

Elliott's Blueberry, Mayberry (Vaccinium elliottii) flowers that are borne on bare stems. The leaves often become bright scarlet red and remain on the bush late into the winter. Then in early spring flowers are produced before or with the emergence of new leaves. Elliotts Blueberry will form somewhat sour edible blueberry fruits and consumed by human and wild animals. #blueberries #huckleberry #wildedibles #wildflowers #herbarium #heathfamily #vaccínium #wildfoods #callaway

Porcelain berry (Ampelopsis brevipedunculata) as t

Porcelain berry (Ampelopsis brevipedunculata) as the name implies, showing a range of colors with shiny porcelain like berries during maturation process. This is one of an exotic invasive plants which is a major threat to our native forests. It grows as a thick blanket blocking the sunlight and killing all most all the other native plants. Porcelain berry vine strongly resemblance our native grapes and hard to distinguish from each other. Leaves are greatly varies even on the same vine. But thankfully with flowers and berries it is easy to tell apart. Native grapes have inflorescence droop downwards whereas porcelain berries has berries and flowers stick up like an umbrella. #invasivespecies #invasiveplants #porcelainberry #vitis #grapes #nativeforest #invasivespeciesremoval #nativeplants #herbarium

Gopher apple (Licania michauxii) is a small shrub

Gopher apple (Licania michauxii) is a small shrub found in pinelands, coastal thickets and sandhills. Flowers has a sweet almond smell. Fruit is a delicacy for gopher tortoise, which is becoming extinct. Not only gopher tortoise, nearly every woodland creature likes gopher apples. It has a sweet pink bubble gum taste but the texture of ripened fruits are very soft and juicier. #gophertortoise #gopherapple #pinelands #sandhills #coastalplants #wildedibles #wildflowers #herbarium

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