What use are herbaria?

If you really think this question is important, then go read this post at Catalogue of Organisms.

Geographical oddity

Confusing trivia. Did you know about Miami University? (there’s a great department of botany there, I found this when looking for a paper…).
So guess what?
#1. Miami University is located at Oxford.
#2. This Oxford is located in Ohio.
USA really are a world apart on their own… :-)

Amazonian plants blog

For those who read Brazilian Portugese, there is a good blog about Amazonian Brazilian plants to read, Raphael Serathiuk’s blog (but if don’t, you can always go for the pictures).

Seeds Aside

So here is a game… Would you be able to guess to which species these different seeds belong to? (It’s really a game, for I know the answers).
Hint-1: the smaller seeds are from species #2 (not so small though), but other species are big seeds.
Hint-2: there’s at least one reader (outsider) that has a clear [...]