by Theresa Bramblett | Jun 7, 2010 | Events
Miami Dade College’s Palm Diversity & Maintenance class visited MBC to assist with the summer planting. The course teaches identification and good maintenance practices for the major species of palms commonly found in South Florida. MBC has a history of using...
by Theresa Bramblett | May 12, 2010 | Research
Dr. Irene Terry, from the University of Utah, is an expert on the pollination biology of cycads. Her recent work looks closely at the mutual relationship between cycads and their pollinators. Through innovative methods, Dr. Terry has advanced our understanding of how...
by Theresa Bramblett | May 6, 2010 | Events
Two cycad experts from Mexico were recently hosted by Montgomery Botanical Center. Dr. Andrew Vovides, Montgomery Botanical Research Fellow (1989) from Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, and Dr. Miguel Angel Perez-Farrera from the Universidad de...
by Theresa Bramblett | Apr 29, 2010 | Events
Patricia Siemen, Director of the Center for Earth Jurisprudence at St. Thomas University, visited MBC with six law students. Their visit coincided with the last meeting for a course on Earth Jurisprudence. The students remarked that seeing the work of MBC firsthand...
by Theresa Bramblett | Apr 26, 2010 | News
A new book on Brazilian Palms has been published. Brazilian Flora Lorenzi: Arecaceae (Palms) details 300 species, varieties, and natural hybrids of palms native to Brazil. The work, authored by Harri Lorenzi, Larry Noblick, Frances Kahn, and Evandro Ferreira, contains...
by Theresa Bramblett | Apr 21, 2010 | Publications
Montgomery Botanical Center is dedicated to conserving living collections of cycads. With new living material comingthrough the nursery, the MBC team is often challenged to cultivate plants poorly known to horticulture. A new paper in the journal HortScience explores...
by Theresa Bramblett | Apr 8, 2010 | Events
Montgomery Botanical Center was honored to co-sponsor the 22nd Gifford Arboretum Lecture at the University of Miami. Dr. John Kress of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution gave a lecture titled, “DNA Barcoding in Plants: The Future of...
by Theresa Bramblett | Apr 1, 2010 | Newsletter
Spring/Summer 2010 Newsletter Spring/Summer 2010 – Volume 18, Number 1 Read the latest issue of our newsletter here.This new issue has articles on fieldwork in St. Lucia, Martinique, the Bahamas, Tonga, and the Fiji Islands. There are also articles on the 50th...
by Theresa Bramblett | Mar 27, 2010 | Events
Montgomery Botanical Center’s 51st Members Meeting was held on March 27. The MBC leadership offered updates on the previous year’s work, and plans for the coming year. The Members Lecture was given by Dr. Alan Meerow of Chapman Field, who presented an...
by Theresa Bramblett | Mar 26, 2010 | Publications
Dr. Larry Noblick, MBC Palm Biologist, is working on an extensive review of Syagrus and closely related palms. Over the course of extensive fieldwork, herbarium study, and study of living collections at MBC and elsewhere, in collaboration with Harri Lorenzi of the...
