![The Night-Blowing Cereus, from Robert John Thornton’s “Temple of flora, or, Garden of the botanist, poet, painter and philosopher: being, picturesque botanical plates of the New illustration of the sexual system of Linnæus”, ca. 1798 - 1807, London.](/sites/default/files/styles/small_hq/public/image/2020-06/from-the-vault-web-banner-1400x400.jpg?itok=cwhXJo8q)
From the Vault: Wonders and Oddities from the Gardens' Collections
Sept. 26 – Oct. 27, 2020
York Street Location
1007 York Street
Denver, CO 80206
Map
Freyer – Newman Center
Denver Botanic Gardens is home to much more than living plants; its collections also include paintings, pressed plants, rare books, dried fungi, historic photos and a whole host of other objects of artistic, scientific and historical value. As a result of state-of-the-art facilities in the newly constructed Freyer – Newman Center, these collections can be researched, displayed and cared for to a degree never before possible.
Take a behind-the-scenes look at some of the objects that have enchanted, delighted and puzzled the Gardens’ own curators— from a giant puffball fungus named Fred to a botanical illustration created during the time of Shakespeare.
Gallery
![Western giant puffball (Calvatia booniana)](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2020-06/fred-the-fungi_gallery-1000px.jpg?itok=12WWV-k2)
Western giant puffball (Calvatia booniana)
![Bound herbarium sheets, 1910](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2020-06/gallery-2_0.jpg?itok=dEiD6EXh)
Bound herbarium sheets, 1910
![The Night-Blowing Cereus, from Robert John Thornton’s “Temple of flora, or, Garden of the botanist, poet, painter and philosopher: being, picturesque botanical plates of the New illustration of the sexual system of Linnæus”, ca. 1798 - 1807, London.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2020-06/gallery_3_0.jpg?itok=8urTIYnL)
The Night-Blowing Cereus, from Robert John Thornton’s “Temple of flora, or, Garden of the botanist, poet, painter and philosopher: being, picturesque botanical plates of the New illustration of the sexual system of Linnæus”, ca. 1798 - 1807, London.
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