Andrew Hipp
@andrewlhipp.bsky.social
Plant systematist, herbarium director, ASPT outgoing president, naturalist, in the Chicago suburbs; posts reflect my views, not my employer's.
2024 book: Oak Origins... check it out:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo236998258.html
2024 book: Oak Origins... check it out:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo236998258.html
Learning about Mycobacterium tuberculosis with @downersgrovenorth.bsky.social @jeffgrantscience.bsky.social in AP Biology today, right before talking prairie restoration and experimental design. It's always a joy to teach with you, Mr. Grant.
September 15, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Learning about Mycobacterium tuberculosis with @downersgrovenorth.bsky.social @jeffgrantscience.bsky.social in AP Biology today, right before talking prairie restoration and experimental design. It's always a joy to teach with you, Mr. Grant.
Bur oak acorn dropping in Downers Grove
September 15, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Bur oak acorn dropping in Downers Grove
Join @robertmoor.com and me at @mortonarboretum.bsky.social on Oct 19 for a conversation about Robert's new book, In Trees. His book is a fascinating exploration of trees and human arboreality.
I'm looking forward to the conversation and hope to see you there.
mortonarb.org/explore/acti...
I'm looking forward to the conversation and hope to see you there.
mortonarb.org/explore/acti...
In Trees: A Conversation with Robert Moor | The Morton Arboretum
Hear acclaimed author Robert Moor discuss his new book In Trees: An Exploration with the Arboretum’s herbarium director, Dr. Andrew Hipp.
mortonarb.org
September 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Join @robertmoor.com and me at @mortonarboretum.bsky.social on Oct 19 for a conversation about Robert's new book, In Trees. His book is a fascinating exploration of trees and human arboreality.
I'm looking forward to the conversation and hope to see you there.
mortonarb.org/explore/acti...
I'm looking forward to the conversation and hope to see you there.
mortonarb.org/explore/acti...
Little peeps all over the neighborhood... The sound of white throated sparrows back in town?
September 13, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Little peeps all over the neighborhood... The sound of white throated sparrows back in town?
Spined micrathena packing her lunch. Maple Grove Forest Preserve this morning.
September 10, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Spined micrathena packing her lunch. Maple Grove Forest Preserve this morning.
Reposted by Andrew Hipp
そして結局、Quercus dentata（標準和名カシワ）が日本で「かしわ」と呼ばれるようになったのはいつ頃か、という点について知るには、垰田さんの下記の文章に加えて、
forests-world.cocotte.jp/flora/issue/...
よこがわさんから紹介された、垰田さんのこのサイトが最も詳しいように思います。
forests-world.cocotte.jp/flora/issue/...
forests-world.cocotte.jp/flora/issue/...
よこがわさんから紹介された、垰田さんのこのサイトが最も詳しいように思います。
forests-world.cocotte.jp/flora/issue/...
特集－Ⅳ かしわ餅のまとめ
forests-world.cocotte.jp
September 8, 2026 at 2:30 AM
そして結局、Quercus dentata（標準和名カシワ）が日本で「かしわ」と呼ばれるようになったのはいつ頃か、という点について知るには、垰田さんの下記の文章に加えて、
forests-world.cocotte.jp/flora/issue/...
よこがわさんから紹介された、垰田さんのこのサイトが最も詳しいように思います。
forests-world.cocotte.jp/flora/issue/...
forests-world.cocotte.jp/flora/issue/...
よこがわさんから紹介された、垰田さんのこのサイトが最も詳しいように思います。
forests-world.cocotte.jp/flora/issue/...
Reposted by Andrew Hipp
Look, y'all— this is not the worst outcome, but it's also not great. Framing this as gaining a notably large herbarium is spin; the reality is a historic, important herbarium has lost its identity. The specimens were never going to be trashed; Duke still voluntarily truncated their botanical legacy.
UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke to combine herbaria, creating the third-largest university plant collection in the United States ncbg.unc.edu/2026/08/31/u...
UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke to combine herbaria, creating the third-largest university plant collection in the United States - North Carolina Botanical Garden
The combined herbaria will create an unmatched archive for studying plant diversity in the southeastern United States (Chapel Hill, N.C.— Aug. 31, 2026) UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University will unite....
ncbg.unc.edu
September 1, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Look, y'all— this is not the worst outcome, but it's also not great. Framing this as gaining a notably large herbarium is spin; the reality is a historic, important herbarium has lost its identity. The specimens were never going to be trashed; Duke still voluntarily truncated their botanical legacy.
Last collections of the Guatemala trip: Quercus tristis, majestic and festooned with bromeliads on a bluff; Q. skinneri growing in a ravine, collected from a gap-toothed bridge; and Q. acatangenais in a restaurant parking lot.
An outstanding trip with good friends and colleagues, coming to an end.
An outstanding trip with good friends and colleagues, coming to an end.
September 7, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Last collections of the Guatemala trip: Quercus tristis, majestic and festooned with bromeliads on a bluff; Q. skinneri growing in a ravine, collected from a gap-toothed bridge; and Q. acatangenais in a restaurant parking lot.
An outstanding trip with good friends and colleagues, coming to an end.
An outstanding trip with good friends and colleagues, coming to an end.
Buses in town for Sunday market, Mercado de Chupol
September 6, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Buses in town for Sunday market, Mercado de Chupol
Last day of collecting, one species to go.
September 6, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Last day of collecting, one species to go.
"The Supreme Court protects the outlandish outlaw by palavering about whether the architectural historian who brought the case has “standing” to do so. Yet shouldn’t any American have standing to challenge Trump’s desecrations?"
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/o...
Opinion | Not So Supreme, Mr. Roberts (Gift Article)
Courting authoritarianism with a rapacious Trump.
www.nytimes.com
September 6, 2026 at 12:46 PM
"The Supreme Court protects the outlandish outlaw by palavering about whether the architectural historian who brought the case has “standing” to do so. Yet shouldn’t any American have standing to challenge Trump’s desecrations?"
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/o...
Quercus xalapensis shedding acorns onto a metal roof... Turn up the volume! Santa Cruz Verapaz.
September 4, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Quercus xalapensis shedding acorns onto a metal roof... Turn up the volume! Santa Cruz Verapaz.
Indigo milk cap, today at Biotopo del Quetzal.
September 4, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Indigo milk cap, today at Biotopo del Quetzal.
Epiphytes on a fallen log, El Olvido, Sierra de las Minas, Guatemala this morning.
September 3, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Epiphytes on a fallen log, El Olvido, Sierra de las Minas, Guatemala this morning.
Waking up in Reserva de Biosfera Trifinio, which straddles the borders between Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador. Coffee and bananas along with that side, cloud forest above.
September 2, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Waking up in Reserva de Biosfera Trifinio, which straddles the borders between Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador. Coffee and bananas along with that side, cloud forest above.
Waking up in Reserva de Biosfera Trifinio, which straddles the border between Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador. Coffee and bananas along with that side, cloud forest above.
September 2, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Waking up in Reserva de Biosfera Trifinio, which straddles the border between Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador. Coffee and bananas along with that side, cloud forest above.
Quercus oocarpa this evening, Volcán Ipala, Guatemala, right before the cows trundled by.
September 2, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Quercus oocarpa this evening, Volcán Ipala, Guatemala, right before the cows trundled by.
Collecting Quercus crassifolia acorns along the roadside this afternoon, vicinity of Jalapa, Guatemala.
September 2, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Collecting Quercus crassifolia acorns along the roadside this afternoon, vicinity of Jalapa, Guatemala.
Guatemala oaks, day 2: Maura and Juan Pablo with Quercus aff. pacayana; the magnificent Quercus borucasana; landscape while driving; pressing plants in the evening.
September 1, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Guatemala oaks, day 2: Maura and Juan Pablo with Quercus aff. pacayana; the magnificent Quercus borucasana; landscape while driving; pressing plants in the evening.
Lunch time music, yesterday in Guatemala City.
August 31, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Lunch time music, yesterday in Guatemala City.
Guatemala oaks day one:
lunch with colleagues, a panoramic view of the Guatemala landscape at a 100-year-old scale topographic model, studying oaks in the herbarium (USCG), collecting supplies ready for our departure tomorrow morning.
lunch with colleagues, a panoramic view of the Guatemala landscape at a 100-year-old scale topographic model, studying oaks in the herbarium (USCG), collecting supplies ready for our departure tomorrow morning.
August 31, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Guatemala oaks day one:
lunch with colleagues, a panoramic view of the Guatemala landscape at a 100-year-old scale topographic model, studying oaks in the herbarium (USCG), collecting supplies ready for our departure tomorrow morning.
lunch with colleagues, a panoramic view of the Guatemala landscape at a 100-year-old scale topographic model, studying oaks in the herbarium (USCG), collecting supplies ready for our departure tomorrow morning.
The human situation seems less a come-as-you-are party than a party to which we are bidden to come as our favorite character and, though we are sometimes cheap or shy, we do fairly well.
-- Wm Bronk
-- Wm Bronk
August 30, 2026 at 9:43 AM
The human situation seems less a come-as-you-are party than a party to which we are bidden to come as our favorite character and, though we are sometimes cheap or shy, we do fairly well.
-- Wm Bronk
-- Wm Bronk
It is always hard... not having a world,
to imagine one, to go to the far edge
apart and imagine, to wall whether in
or out, to build a kind of cage for the sake
of feeling the bars around us, to give shape to a world.
And oh, it is always a world and not the world.
www.phys.unm.edu/~tw/fas/yits...
to imagine one, to go to the far edge
apart and imagine, to wall whether in
or out, to build a kind of cage for the sake
of feeling the bars around us, to give shape to a world.
And oh, it is always a world and not the world.
www.phys.unm.edu/~tw/fas/yits...
William Bronk At Tikal 2
www.phys.unm.edu
August 30, 2026 at 9:37 AM
It is always hard... not having a world,
to imagine one, to go to the far edge
apart and imagine, to wall whether in
or out, to build a kind of cage for the sake
of feeling the bars around us, to give shape to a world.
And oh, it is always a world and not the world.
www.phys.unm.edu/~tw/fas/yits...
to imagine one, to go to the far edge
apart and imagine, to wall whether in
or out, to build a kind of cage for the sake
of feeling the bars around us, to give shape to a world.
And oh, it is always a world and not the world.
www.phys.unm.edu/~tw/fas/yits...
Dwarf chinkapin oak (Quercus prinoides) in fruit, yesterday @mortonarboretum.bsky.social
August 29, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Dwarf chinkapin oak (Quercus prinoides) in fruit, yesterday @mortonarboretum.bsky.social