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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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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

Pink Evening Primrose, Pink Buttercup, Mexican Eve

Pink Evening Primrose, Pink Buttercup, Mexican Evening Primrose (Oenothera speciosa) in bloom on road sides. This perennial wildflower belongs to Evening Primrose family ( Onagraceae) as name implies flowers open in the evening and closing them again early each morning. However southern populations open their flowers in the morning. Sometimes flowers open rapidly that the movement can almost be observed. Flowers attract bees and butterflies and reddish seed capsules attract birds and small mammals. This plant is edible when collected before flowering. It can cooked as green or salad. #eveningprimrose #ediblewildplants #wildflowers #butterflyplants #primrose #herbarium

Did you know that grasses make up 26% of all plant

Did you know that grasses make up 26% of all plant life on earth. This enormous presence is overlooked as this plant is everywhere. Whereas Bamboo (which can be seen around Atlanta) is the largest species of grass!

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Star vine/ Bay star vine (Schisandra glabra) is on

Star vine/ Bay star vine (Schisandra glabra) is one of a highly threatened native plant species found in Southeastern United States. This is the only American species of Schisandra where it is primarily native to East Asia. Emory is lucky to have several patches of this unique species in our very own Lullwater park and Hahn Woods.
Star vine trails on the forest floor unless it finds a good tree to climbs up. It produces bright reddish orange flowers near to the canopy of the tree and being so high up they are hard to spot. They are monoecious plants with both male and female flowers in the same plants. But blossoms are spatially and temporally separate to ensure outbreeding. #nativeplants #southeasternplants #primitiveplants #vines #threatenedspecies #orangeflowers #starvines #lullwaterpark #disjunct #emoryuniversity

Male flowers of American beech (Fagus grandifolia)

Male flowers of American beech (Fagus grandifolia). Beech is one of elegant forest tree which is easy to catch your eyes whether it is in leaves or not. Beech trees keep their dried leaves through out the winter. This phenomenon called “marcescence”. Reasons for marcescence is not fully understand yet. But it maybe an adaptive trait for trees to grow on infertile soils as dropping leave in spring increases the soil organic matter for the growing tree or maybe young leaves hidden by dried leaves do not get eaten by herbivores, or maybe just an evolutionary trait remained when trees are changed from evergreen to deciduous. Whatever the reason for marcescence it seems beech tree benefited from that allowing it to grow dry, cold, infertile and deer infested habitats. #beech #deciduoustrees #marcescence #trees #evergreentrees #americanbeech #forestry #dendrology #plantphisiology #plantevolution

One-flower stichwort or Piedmont sandwort (Minuart

One-flower stichwort or Piedmont sandwort (Minuartia uniflora) on Arabia mountain. This is a Piedmont endemic which is mostly found in Granite outcrop habitats. It blooms late March to May. #wildflowers #graniteoutcrop #piedmont #caryophyllaceae #nature #sanddunes #southeasternflora #arabiamountain

Stinky squid in the Lullwater park. (Pseudocolus f

Stinky squid in the Lullwater park. (Pseudocolus fusiformis) This stinkhorn found mostly boarders of open woods. Strong unpleasant odor emits from the dark green, spore baring slimy inner surface. This attracts flies which unintentionally disperse spores after visiting the fungus. #stinkhorn #fungi #mushrooms #lullwaterpark #phallus #nature #wildlife

How many shades of green you see...? A great view

How many shades of green you see...? A great view from top of the Stone Mountain. #piedmont #stonemountain #spring #springflowers #georgia #explore #hiking #nature #seasonalcolor #forestcanopy #birdeyeview

Elf orpine (Diamorpha smallii) on Stone Mountain.

Elf orpine (Diamorpha smallii) on Stone Mountain. This photo taken last year.... we missed visiting this year blooming. Diamorpha is a rare plant highly adopted to this micro environment and completes its whole lifecycle within less than six months. It is strictly seen in vernal pools on hard crystalline rocks such as granite or gneiss. You will see no soil at all on those rocks yet these tiny plants grow successfully on small water pits with little bit of accumulated sand. Its bright red color is due to abundance of anthocyanins which act as a sunscreen to the plant. You can visit late March to early April to grasp this spectacular view of scattered red round carpets on a bare rock. #arabiamountain #stonemountain #granitecountertops #elforpine #stonecrop #wildflowers #georgia #hiking #nature #explorenature #endemic #flora

Hairy Spiderwort (Tradescantia hirsuticaulis). Spi

Hairy Spiderwort (Tradescantia hirsuticaulis). Spiderworts are so named because the angular leaf arrangement shows a squatting spider or maybe the name because when you break a stem the thick sap that released resembles white and silky spider webbings when dry. This species is native to southeastern USA and can distinguish from other common tradescantia species having hairy stems. #dayflower #tradescantia #wildflowers #stonemountain #southeasternflora #commelinaceae #spiderwort

Another yellow wild beauty... slender scratchdaisy

Another yellow wild beauty... slender scratchdaisy. (Croptilon divaricatum). This is a summer annual common in frequently burned areas. #asters #daisys #wildflowers #pinesavanna #longleafpine #asteraceae

Bright yellow flowers of Sunn hemp (Crotalaria jun

Bright yellow flowers of Sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea). Lignified stems of sunn hemp widely used to produce fiber since prehistoric times. Sunn hemp fiber has greater tensile strength and more durable but it is not as strong as hemp (Cannabis saliva). #fabaceae #fibers #wildflower #fabric #hemp

Happy Earth Day from the Emory herbarium! Remember

Happy Earth Day from the Emory herbarium! Remember that we only get one chance with this planet; let’s make sure we don’t waste it.

Amid this pandemic today marks national beer day,

Amid this pandemic today marks national beer day, which of course couldn’t exist without some special plants including hops and malted barley. When making beer, the barley provides a source of grain sugar for the yeast to eat to produce the alcohol whereas the hops provides flavoring and aroma.

The Japanese Magnolia is giving us the first sign

The Japanese Magnolia is giving us the first sign of spring again this year. These thrive in the rain as opposed to students 💦

Uploading this amazing Parmotrema perforatum sampl

Uploading this amazing Parmotrema perforatum sample found in Lullwater into the database. Those barnacle like holes on the surface are where the spores are released to reproduce more lichen.

Happy valentines day from our lichens to you

Happy valentines day from our lichens to you

Emory Herbarium had a great event at the Fernbank

Emory Herbarium had a great event at the Fernbank Science Center with Dekalb County School Science teachers to initiate their own class room Herbaria. #dekalbschool #fernbanksciencecenter #herbarium #schoolscience #plantscience #herbarium

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