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Collecting in the clouds. A surreal morning waiting for the helicopter to reappear, pick us up, and take us to the next field site in Fiordland National Park. And some of us are still botanising while we wait! 14 Feb 2020. Photo by Heidi Meudt @ Te Papa.

Photo essay: Remote field work collecting forget-me-nots in the South Island

2020-10-14
By: Heidi Meudt
On: 14 Oct 2020

Botany Researcher Heidi Meudt and Collection Manager Antony Kusabs made new collections of forget-me-nots and other plants at some stunning but remote South Island sites in Feb 2020. Take a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to do remote field work, and enjoy some of the rewards of their hard work!Read more

Crabeater seals and their mysterious attraction to the Hutt River (the sequel)

2019-07-24
By: Colin Miskelly
On: 24 Jul 2019

About three years ago, vertebrate curator Colin Miskelly made the ‘rash’ claim that the best bet for seeing a crabeater seal in New Zealand was to visit the mouth of the Hutt River in Wellington Harbour – and wait approximately 25 years. But one showed up there a few days ago. Colin gives his thoughts on why they come here. Read more

New Zealand gains a fern genus named after the Chinese imperial guard, Hiya

2018-10-12
By: Leon Perrie
On: 12 Oct 2018

Botanist Leon Perrie recently posted about the desirability of minimising taxonomic name changes. He writes here about the need to change the name of a fern to reflect its newly discovered evolutionary relationships.Read more

Heidi Meudt taking some close-up photos of a large plant of Myosotis macrantha in the Matiri Range, Kahurangi National Park. Photo by Ant Kusabs @ Te Papa. SP106587

Searching in needles and haystacks for forget-me-nots

2018-08-20
By: Heidi Meudt
On: 20 Aug 2018

Read about Botanists Heidi Meudt and Antony Kusabs epic 14-day forget-me-not field work adventure. Highlights include solving a plant identification mystery and finding a plant that hadn’t been collected in almost a century.Read more

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