Jessiman, 23, is a native of Darien, who has been nicknamed "Huge Specimen" for good reason.
One particular beauty, Alcantarea odorata, which has rosettes of broad blue-green leaves, appears throughout the show, and a huge specimen, Alcantarea imperialis — a good five feet across — greets visitors as they step into the exhibition hall.
Fully mature specimens can weigh about 1 kg; a huge specimen collected on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, in 1995 bore a cap of 42 cm, with a stipe 18 cm in height and 14 cm wide, and weighed 3.2 kg.
Or find a huge edible specimen in the bark of a tree: "Holy macaroni!
In the case of Brontosaurus though, it's mostly down to a detailed and thorough analysis of huge numbers of specimens of the giant sauropod dinosaurs.
An appetizer of coconut shrimp transcended the cliché: three huge, juicy fried specimens, standing upright in a coconut shell that looked like a boat with plantain chips for sails.
But what the examinations did not turn up is probably as revealing as what they did: in all the huge volume of specimens this year, relatively few animals, the lab found, died from accidental pesticide exposure.
Collembola are rarely included in landscape-level biodiversity assessments, large-scale surveys and monitoring projects because huge numbers of specimens would accumulate even in moderately sized programmes.
His huge collection of specimens and notes was sent back to the Paris Museum in 1774, but destroyed by sulphur fumigation in about 1810.
