Yellow Flowering Currant 8
The plant’s nectar is a popular palate pleaser for hummingbirds and other winged drinkers.
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Nature Gardens
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Turritella Shell: A Topanga Canyon Find!
This marine snail lived at the bottom of the sea 15 million years ago!
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Age of Mammals
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Palo Verde: If Rapunzel Were a Tree
Leafless until spring, when thousands of flowers burst into golden tresses — making all the bees go wild.
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Nature Gardens
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$5,000
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Nova Agave 7: Living Sculpture
Protected by leathery leaves and spines, this plant also has a delicate side—a gorgeous six-foot flower spike.
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Nature Gardens
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To sponsor, please contact Ed Lin, at elin@nhm.org.Your gift will be recognized on this website and on a digital display in the Grand Foyer featuring your name, a photo of your object, and your "object love letter."
Corythosaurus Skin Impression 1
This remarkably-preserved specimen reveals the look and texture of a 76-74 million year old hadrosaur.
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Dinosaur Hall
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Nova Agave 5: Living Sculpture
Protected by leathery leaves and spines, this plant also has a delicate side—a gorgeous six-foot flower spike.
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Nature Gardens
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St. Catherine's Lace 1: Oh Holy Bush
The large, white flowery bush inspires wedding dresses, tablecloths, and doilies.
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Nature Gardens
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St. Catherine's Lace 2: Oh Holy Bush
The large, white flowery bush inspires wedding dresses, tablecloths, and doilies.
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Nature Gardens
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To sponsor, please contact Ed Lin, at elin@nhm.org.Your gift will be recognized on this website and on a digital display in the Grand Foyer featuring your name, a photo of your object, and your "object love letter."
Feathery Cassia: Give Me Some Space
It doesn't like to be pruned, and needs plenty of branch room so it can spread out its abundant yellow blooms.
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Nature Gardens
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Ankylosaur Scute 2: Dino Suit of Armor
This piece of plating protected its owner against attacks from predators looking for their next meal.
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Dinosaur Hall
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Orange Tree 2: You Always Pick Me
The squeezing began in the 1800s, when Spanish missionaries carted the sun-worshipping citrus to California.
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Ornithomimidae Claw: Our Ancient Foot Fetish
This claw from the predatory ostrich-like dinosaur was found in Montana roughly 67-65 million years ago.
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Dinosaur Hall
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Pacific Blue Sage: Bee Bliss
Periwinkle blue in hue, the sun-worshipping Californian is a magnet for bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies.
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Nature Gardens
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Yellow Flowering Currant 9
The plant's nectar is a popular palate pleaser for hummingbirds and other winged drinkers.
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Nature Gardens
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To sponsor, please contact Ed Lin, at elin@nhm.org.Your gift will be recognized on this website and on a digital display in the Grand Foyer featuring your name, a photo of your object, and your "object love letter."
Nova Agave 8: Living Sculpture
Protected by leathery leaves and spines, this plant also has a delicate side—a gorgeous six-foot flower spike.
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Nature Gardens
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To sponsor, please contact Ed Lin, at elin@nhm.org.Your gift will be recognized on this website and on a digital display in the Grand Foyer featuring your name, a photo of your object, and your "object love letter."
Ornithomimus Vertebrae: Get Off My Back!
These dinosaurs are often used to show the similar features that birds and dinosaurs share.
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Dinosaur Hall
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Preprismatoolithus Egg 3
Eggs and nests provide clues to how dinosaurs reproduced and cared for their babies.
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Dinosaur Hall
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"Francisco Sepulveda" Painting
This portrait's subject was a Mexican colonial solider and patriarch of the famed Sepulveda family.
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Becoming Los Angeles
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Island Bush Snapdragon 5: A Big Talker
A visitor from the Channel Islands, its lipstick-red, dragon-like mouth is a magnet for hummingbirds.
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Nature Gardens
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Cerambicidea Beetle: Don't Bug Me
This large beetle helps us ponder the question "What laid this egg?"
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Rotunda
This object is in honor of:
David and Karen Garson
Ornithopod Foot Print: An Ancient Track Star
Tracks like these found in Utah help paleontologists learn about dinosaur locomotion and behavior.
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Dinosaur Hall
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Nova Agave 3: Living Sculpture
Protected by leathery leaves and spines, this plant also has a delicate side—a gorgeous six-foot flower spike.
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Nature Gardens
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To sponsor, please contact Ed Lin, at elin@nhm.org.Your gift will be recognized on this website and on a digital display in the Grand Foyer featuring your name, a photo of your object, and your "object love letter."
Island Bush Snapdragon 4: A Big Talker
A visitor from the Channel Islands, its lipstick-red, dragon-like mouth is a magnet for hummingbirds.
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Nature Gardens
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$1,000
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To sponsor, please contact Ed Lin, at elin@nhm.org.Your gift will be recognized on this website and on a digital display in the Grand Foyer featuring your name, a photo of your object, and your "object love letter."
Giant Amphibian: They Make 'Em Big in Texas
This supersized Triassic amphibian lived with the earliest dinosaurs a whopping 251-200 million years ago.
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Dinosaur Hall
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$10,000
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Manzanita: Miss North Campus
Our gardeners voted this 8-foot stunner in a pink dress winner of the North Campus garden’s beauty contest.
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Nature Gardens
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$2,500
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To sponsor, please contact Ed Lin, at elin@nhm.org.Your gift will be recognized on this website and on a digital display in the Grand Foyer featuring your name, a photo of your object, and your "object love letter."