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...
by Theresa Bramblett | Mar 24, 2010 | Events
Ten students from Mr. Phillip Pearcy’s Environmental Science class at G. Holmes Braddock Senior High School visited Montgomery Botanical Center this week as part of the Fairchild Challenge Environmental Immersion Day. Rotations led by Michael Calonje, Ericka Witcher,...
by Theresa Bramblett | Mar 20, 2010 | Events
by Theresa Bramblett | Mar 18, 2010 | Publications
Zamia pyrophylla, a new cycad species from the lowland tropics of Colombia, was recently described in the journal Brittonia. The new cycad is visually striking — the research team writes: “The specific epithet refers to the glowing orange and red emergent...
by Theresa Bramblett | Feb 26, 2010 | Publications
Botanic Gardens increasingly work to ensure the conservation of endangered plants. Montgomery Botanical Center is no exception, and MBC plant collections have been structured to maximize conservation value. But how effective is this work — are plants being...
