by Theresa Bramblett | Oct 17, 2008 | Events
The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) recently celebrated its 45th anniversary in South Florida. Montgomery Botanical Center hosted a luncheon at Nell’s House for the OTS Boards, and gave a tour of the living plant collections. There is significant...
by Theresa Bramblett | Oct 15, 2008 | News
In 2007, Cédric Pollet spent two weeks at Montgomery Botanical Center. During his time at MBC, he took thirteen photos that were prominently featured in ten pages of his new book, Écorces: Voyage dans l’intimité des arbres du monde. Interesting and unusual plant...
by Theresa Bramblett | Oct 2, 2008 | Events
Montgomery Botanical Research Fellow Cristina Lopez-Gallego, from the Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia, recently gave a seminar on cycad research in Colombia. With many neotropical cycads (zamias included) critically endangered, more information on cycad biology is...
by Theresa Bramblett | Sep 20, 2008 | Events
Don Ellison, co-author of Cultivated Palms of the World and Australian horticulturist, gave a lecture on the flowering trees of Australia and their potential for import to the United States. The Tropical Flowering Tree Society and the South Florida Palm Society...
by Theresa Bramblett | Aug 6, 2008 | Events, Publications, Research
Dr. Alan Meerow, Research Geneticist at Chapman Field (USDA-ARS-SHRS) gave a public lecture at MBC on Wednesday, August 6, titled, Phylogeny of Cocoseae subtribe Attaleinae (Areceaceae) based on eight WRKY transcription factor loci. Dr. Meerow’s work involves a large...
by Theresa Bramblett | Aug 1, 2008 | Publications
A study of how palms are affected by high winds was recently published in Annals of Botany. This work describes patterns of variation in palms’ tolerance for high winds, and natural selection for wind tolerance. An online version of the study can be found on the...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jul 31, 2008 | Events
Montgomery Botanical Center’s research in palms and cycads was recently presented at Botany 2008, the annual conference of the Botanical Society of America and other plant science associations. Dr. Patrick Griffith, Executive Director, presented two talks at the...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jul 23, 2008 | Research
Ian Cole, recent M.Sc. Graduate in Phytochemistry at UBC, is in residence at MBC this summer, studying Montgomery Botanical’s Nypa collections. Ian is the recipient of a 2008 Montgomery Fellowship for Early Career Botanists. By using the live scientific...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jul 17, 2008 | Events
Dr. John Dowe, Montgomery Botanical Research Fellow, presented a lecture on the Palms of the Wet Tropics Bioregion of Australia, on July 17. Although Australia is the driest continent on earth, with an average continent-wide rainfall of only 165 mm (6”), there are...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jun 27, 2008 | Events
The Montgomery Botanical Center (MBC) team participated in many aspects of the 2008 American Public Gardens Association (APGA) Conference in Pasadena, California. Chad Husby organized and spoke at a session on challenges in plant collection and exchange for botanical...
