by Theresa Bramblett | Jun 6, 2006 | News
Montgomery Botanical Center welcomes Logan Barton, a horticulture student from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. Logan is MBC’s first intern in the inaugural year of the Montgomery Internship Program. He brings experience working with...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jun 5, 2006 | Events
The Kampong hosted the 5th International Tropical Flowering Tree Color Conference this past weekend, which included a number of distinguighed speakers. The keynote speaker, Dr. Harry Lorenzi of Brazil, is a longtime collaborator in the Palm biogeographic work of Dr....
by Theresa Bramblett | Mar 5, 2006 | Newsletter
Spring/Summer 2006 Newsletter Spring/Summer 2006 – Volume 14, Number 1 Read the latest issue of our newsletter here. Montgomery Botanical Center publishes two newsletters a year to keep our supporters and collaborators up to date and informed. If you would like...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jan 16, 2006 | News
Cristina Lopez-Gallego, a cycad researcher from Colombia, was recently acknowledged for her valuable contribution to the Montgomery Botanical Center mission by being inducted as MBC’s first research associate. Cristina is presently a doctoral candidate at the...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jan 14, 2006 | Research
Dr. Grenville Draper, Professor of Geology at Florida International University, brought his department’s graduate students to learn some local geology. In addition to sinkholes and other karstic features (see photo), The Silver Bluff Escarpment, an exposed limestone...
by Theresa Bramblett | Dec 1, 2005 | Research
Montgomery Botanical Center (MBC) is renowned for its quality wild-collected population samples of palms and cycads from all over the world, but, surprisingly, the Florida native palms and one native cycad are markedly under-represented in MBC’s collections. In an...
by Theresa Bramblett | Nov 22, 2005 | Events
Montgomery Botanical Center recently hosted Dr. James Mauseth, professor of botany at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Mauseth came to study palm anatomy and morphology, and to acquire palm trunk specimens for students of his plant anatomy courses. He presented...
by Theresa Bramblett | Oct 24, 2005 | News
Once again, we sustained major damage to our plants collections from yet another hurricane. As of November 1st, power was restored to part of the property and damage assessments and recovery efforts were underway. Additional information and photos will be posted once...
by Theresa Bramblett | Oct 2, 2005 | Research
In September of this year, MBC conducted a second successful cycad expedition to Panama in as many years, thanks to the generosity of a private donor. This year’s expedition was again conducted in collaboration with Dr. Alberto Taylor, cycad researcher at the...
by Theresa Bramblett | Sep 29, 2005 | News
MBC hosted a group of nine travelers from Adelaide Botanic Gardens in South Australia, Including Steven Forbes (Director). This group was passing through Miami on its way to Guyana, to revisit the routes of Richard Schomburgk’s expeditions there from 1841 to 1844. The...
