News & Events

Zacky Ezedin, former HUH Research Fellow and current Associate, has a new publication in Candollea highlighting some of the work he completed on the flora of Papua New Guinea while at the HUH. Ezedin uncovered two striking new plant species in the...

Harvard University Herbaria is one of 170+ institutions in 40 countries contributing to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew’s 2026 State of the World’s Plants and Fungi [PDF] report. The report explores how new technology is transforming the race to save nature...

In the spring of 2024, while deciding which portion of the HUPB collection to inventory and rehouse next, the paleo team came across a set of very unusual specimens preserved in a sediment called dysodil. These specimens were similar to paper shales –...