by Theresa Bramblett | Apr 1, 2016 | Grants, News
Montgomery Botanical Center has rare living collections that are utilized by scientists all over the world for scientific research. The collections have supported many National Science Foundation funded researchers as well.MBC is located in a hurricane prone region...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jan 12, 2016 | Conservation, Publications
In partnership with Montgomery, BGCI US has published a new guide, Cycads: A model group for ex situ plant conservation. The guide features work done by the Montgomery Botanical Center, including genetic evaluation of the Sinkhole Cycad and the Beach Cycad. This guide...
by Theresa Bramblett | Dec 1, 2015 | Newsletter
Fall/Winter 2015 Newsletter Fall/Winter 2015 – Volume 23, Number 2Read the latest issue of our newsletter here. The new fall issue of the Montgomery Botanical News has articles on Nell’s vision and the last 25 years at Montgomery Botanical Center. It also...
by Theresa Bramblett | Oct 10, 2015 | Events
The Miami-Dade Chapter of the FNGLA invites you to their 2015 FNGLA Plant Market. October 31 & November 1, 20159:30am to 4:30pm Gate Admission is $5, and accompanied children under the age of 16 are free.Guided tour of the Montgomery Botanical Center included....
by Theresa Bramblett | Sep 1, 2015 | Conservation, Research
Larry Noblick recently returned from a palm collecting expedition in the US Virgin Islands. The islands are mostly composed of sedimentary and metamorphic rocks uplifted from the ocean floor due to the movement of molten magma under the sea floor. Located just east of...
by Theresa Bramblett | Aug 14, 2015 | Publications
MBC’s Tracy Magellan and Patrick Griffith along with their colleague Barry Tomlinson (MBC & the Kampong) published an article in the latest issue of the American Journal of Botany on the distribution of gelatinous fibers in the radicle roots of the 10 cycad...
by Theresa Bramblett | Aug 14, 2015 | News
Over 100 cycad experts from 21 different countries met this past week in Medellin, Colombia, for CYCAD 2015: The 10th International Conference on Cycad Biology. Conference Chair Dr. Cristina Lopez-Gallego, Academic Chair Michael Calonje, and Treasurer Patrick Griffith...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jun 30, 2015 | News
Two new species honor Montgomery! Insect experts Charles O’Brian and William Tang recently named a rare weevil after Montgomery Botanical Center and another after Cycad Biologist Michael Calonje. Notorhopalotria montgomeryensis, known only from Costa Rica and Panama,...
by Theresa Bramblett | Apr 2, 2015 | Events, News
Dr. Dennis W. Stevenson, Vice President for Laboratory Research, Editor ofBotanical Review, Adjunct Professor at Columbia, Cornell and Yale Universities, and Member at Montgomery Botanical Center, gave the 27th Annual Gifford Arboretum Lecture at the University of...
by Theresa Bramblett | Apr 1, 2015 | Newsletter
Spring/Summer 2015 Newsletter Spring/Summer 2015 – Volume 23, Number 1Read the latest issue of our newsletter here. This new issue has articles on searching for Pseudophoenix on Elliott Key, collecting cycads in Colombia, more palm discoveries, and recent...
