by Patrick Griffith | Jul 2, 2020 | Conservation, News
Can palms help make architecture more “green?” A fascinating new student project explores that question. John Correa, one of our 2019-2020 Conservation Horticulture Fellows, studied how palm leaves reflect and trap heat, and applied these findings to ...
by admin | May 30, 2020 | Conservation, Grants, In the Press, News, Publications, Research
New Paper Published in the International Journal of Plant Sciences! PALM CONSERVATION STUDY on the cover of International Journal of Plant Sciences! The paper looks at how botanic gardens can help conserve Cacheito Palm (Pseudophoenix ekmanii). A collaboration of...
by admin | Apr 30, 2020 | Conservation, Grants, News, Publications, Research
New Research Paper in Proceedings B! LARGE SCALE STUDY PUBLISHED: Novel genetic data for conserving plants in botanic gardens. A team of 21 experts from The Morton Arboretum, National Tropical Botanical Garden, Chicago Botanic Garden, BGCI Education, Center for Plant...
by Patrick Griffith | Oct 11, 2019 | Conservation, News, Publications, Research
Montgomery teamed up with Bonaire Expert Quirijn Coolen to discover a new palm species, Sabal lougheediana. The new palm is quite rare, and very few survive. The discovery is presented in an open-access paper on the Phytotaxa website. Patrick and Quirijn (pictured...
by Patrick Griffith | Sep 4, 2019 | Conservation, Grants, News, Publications, Research
Toward the Metacollection: Coordinating conservation collections to safeguard plant diversity BGCI-US and Montgomery Botanical Center present findings of a 3-year, multi-institutional project to find the most effective ways to capture, steward and sustain plant...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jun 24, 2019 | Conservation
Our international project is now a cover story! Students and staff from Montgomery Botanical Center, Carmabi Foundation, BonBèrdè, Echo, FIU School of Environment, Arts and Society, and Aeres Hogeschool Wageningen found every native palm on Bonaire and Curacao.Thank...