by Theresa Bramblett | Nov 7, 2013 | Events
Nine horticulture students and Professor Emeritus Bijan Dehgan from UF travelled a great distance from Gainesville to visit the gardens of South Florida this week. The students are studying Public Garden Management, as part of their undergraduate curriculum. After...
by Theresa Bramblett | Nov 7, 2013 | Research
Angela Cano has returned to Montgomery to continue her studies of palm diversity and evolution. She was last here in 2010 while completing her Masters Degree from the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève, in Switzerland. Previously at Montgomery,...
by Theresa Bramblett | Oct 25, 2013 | Events, News
Patrick Griffith, MBC Executive Director travelled to Dunedin, New Zealand, as a delegate to the 5th Global Botanic Garden Congress. Convened by Botanic Gardens Conservation International and hosted by Dunedin Botanic Garden, the meeting brought together over 300...
by Theresa Bramblett | Oct 17, 2013 | Conservation, Research
Building on long and fruitful collaborations, MBC once again teamed up with the Jardín Botánico Nacional Dr. Rafael Ma. Moscoso of the Dominican Republic (JBSD) and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden (FTBG) to collect a wide diversity of plants in the Dominican...
by Theresa Bramblett | Oct 10, 2013 | Research
An exciting study underway at Montgomery! James Clugston, Kelly Botanical Research Fellow, and recent MSc Biodiversity and Taxonomy of Plants Graduate from the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, is here to examine cycad leaf surfaces using advanced techniques. James,...
by Theresa Bramblett | Oct 2, 2013 | Publications, Research
Protective cultivation is essential for many cycad species. But what are the safest and best methods for growing robust cycad seedlings? A new project led by Vickie Murphy, MBC Nursery Curator, sought to maximize survival and growth of young cycads. Although many...
by Theresa Bramblett | Oct 1, 2013 | Publications, Research
A new paper to report: Larry Noblick has published an extensive study of leaflet anatomy for the genus Syagrus. Larry’s recent work focused on the group of “stemless palms,” like the S. graminifolia from Brazil pictured here, which are very hard to tell apart using...
by Theresa Bramblett | Sep 1, 2013 | Publications, Research
An exciting new finding on cycads! A new paper in the journal Annals of Botany resolves long-standing questions on how extant cycads are related. The study, led by Dayana Salas-Leiva, postdoctoral researcher at FIU, and Alan Meerow of the USDA (pictured here at...
by Theresa Bramblett | Aug 31, 2013 | Newsletter
Fall/Winter 2013 Newsletter Fall/Winter 2013 – Volume 21, Number 2 Read the latest issue of our newsletter here. This issue highlights Loyd Kelly’s contributions to Montgomery. This spring we dedicated the Loyd G. Kelly Conservation Nursery, a facility...
by Theresa Bramblett | Aug 10, 2013 | Conservation, Events, Research
Montgomery’s staff, members, research fellows and colleagues were well represented at the VII Congreso Colombiana de Botánica (Colombian Botanical Congress), held this past week at the Universidad del Tolima in Ibagué, Colombia. The Congress was coordinated by Hector...
