Botany: Intro Classes & Workshops


March

This is the class for plant-lovers eager to up their game! Learn the terminology and basic botanical nomenclature that will help you recognize and describe key differences in common plants.
263BOT308EO 03/13 Fr 11:00am-1:00pm Bucuvalas
ONLINE

Discover how fungi are being used to degrade pollutants and clean up the environment by filtering water, removing heavy metals from soil, remediating microbes, and breaking down plastics. Mycologist John Michelotti will discuss current mycoremediation efforts around the world—including his more...
263BOT298O 03/24 Tu 11:00am-1:00pm Michelotti
ONLINE

April

Build your confidence and ability to discover the normally invisible (& fascinating!) aspects of plants, fungi, lichens, slime molds, spores, and other plant specimens using microscopes. In this course, you'll learn the optical principles of microscopy and become comfortable with more...
264BOT398 04/10 Fr 11:00am-2:00pm Sadowski
NYBG

Witness the diversity of plants in the northeast as they flower and set seed in rapid succession. Follow the bloom sequence of spring wildflowers, shrubs and trees during this much anticipated season of rebirth. Learn to identify native plants using more...
264BOT333 04/11 Sa 11:00am-2:00pm Slowik
NYBG

This is the class for plant-lovers eager to up their game! Learn the terminology and basic botanical nomenclature that will help you recognize and describe key differences in common plants.
264BOT308AO 04/12 Su 10:00am-12:00pm Sparreo
ONLINE

Have you heard? Botanizing is the new birding! Join Let's BotanizeŽ co-founders, Ben Goulet-Scott, Ph.D., and Jacob S. Suissa, Ph.D. for a botanizing walk through NYBG. Through their non-profit work and new book, Let's Botanize: 101 Ways to Connect with more...
264BOT282 04/14 Tu 1:30pm-3:30pm Botanize
NYBG

Learn to identify the native and naturalized trees, shrubs, and woody vines of the Northeast by their vegetative characteristics using their scientific and common names. You'll also hone your ability to use taxonomic keys and field guides.
264BOT375BL 04/21 Tu 6:00pm-8:00pm Grumm
BLENDED

As the mushroom season awakens, discover how and where to hunt for Oysters, Inky Caps, Wine Caps, Dryad's Saddle, Reishi, and the early spring Chicken Mushroom. Even the elusive Morels occur throughout the metropolitan region, and spring is the ideal more...
264BOT330 04/22 We 10:00am-1:00pm Sadowski
NYBG
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