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Welcome to the OSU Bio Museum blog
Today I have the pleasure to welcome you to OSU Bio Museum, a blog about biodiversity, research and museum work at the Ohio State Museum of Biological Diversity. This endeavor is the successor to...
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Collecting the small plants
When told that a herbarium is a collection of plants, most people think of flowering plants or pine trees, or perhaps even ferns. The herbarium possesses these plants, but it also has other plants –...
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What does it mean to be a moss?
Mosses are the most diverse group of bryophytes with a myriad of assorted characters, some which are characteristic of mosses in general and some that differentiate mosses from one another. As with...
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Impressions of Volunteers working in the Herbarium
Two of our long-time volunteers are busily processing plant specimens in the herbarium prep room You may have read the “impressions” of an OSU student who works in the herbarium on a part-time basis....
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What is a buckeye?
During the football season, we are accustomed to seeing Brutus Buckeye dancing on the sidelines, shaking his enlarged head, and helping to stimulate enthusiasm for our team on the gridiron. Opposing...
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The Story of the Ohio Buckeyes
In our previous post, we introduced the story of the Ohio Buckeye, the origin of the term ‘buckeye’, the tree’s scientific name (Aesculus glabra), its relationship with the OSU mascot, Brutus, and how...
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Everyday Life at the Museum-part2
Following Monday’s post, here are some illustrations of everyday life in the rest of our collections: In the Adams lab ants are busy tending their fungi gardens. No students are working the day I stop...
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Vascular Plant Type Specimens in The Ohio State University Herbarium
Today we introduce type specimens kept in The Ohio State University Herbarium. But first let us briefly introduce the herbarium and what a type specimen of a plant is. The Ohio State University...
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Playing the role of a bee
Mid-spring through mid-summer is a good time to see our native orchids in flower here in Ohio. One of the showiest groups is the Lady’s Slippers, which have a distinctive pouch-shaped lip. We have...
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Explaining Science – plant genomics
Brandon Sinn performing molecular lab work Brandon Sinn, PhD graduate from the OSU herbarium, now a postdoctoral fellow at West Virginia University, recently published a paper on molecular work he did...
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