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 admin | Apr 13, 2020 | News, Newsletter
Spring/Summer 2020 Newsletter Spring/Summer 2020 – Volume 28, Number 1 Read the latest issue of our newsletter here. This issue highlights three new plant discoveries along with updates on collaborations and expeditions around the USA, the Caribbean, Brazil,...
by admin | Jan 23, 2020 | News, Publications
New Issue of CYCADS! Please see http://www.cycadgroup.org/ for the latest info on cycad conservation....
by admin | Dec 2, 2019 | News, Newsletter
Fall/Winter 2019 Newsletter Fall/Winter 2019 – Volume 27, Number 2 Read the latest issue of our newsletter here.This issue highlights a botanical project in West Africa, funded by the Plant Exploration Fund (pages 4-5). The project involved botanists from...
by Patrick Griffith | Nov 26, 2019 | News
Guide to the Palms of Northeastern Brazil is now available! Authored by Dr. Larry Noblick, MBC’s palm Biologist, this book offers brief descriptions of 72 palm species from this highly diverse region, which includes the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado habitats. The...
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 admin | Jul 31, 2019 | News, Publications, Research
New Palm Species! The Montgomery Team describe Coccothrinax viridescens, featured on the cover of the latest Phytotaxa. The new palm is only known from gardens — no wild plants have been found yet! The paper is open access and free to read on the Phytotaxa...