Spring/Summer 2025 – Volume 33, Number 1
Read the latest issue of our newsletter here.
This issue’s cover story on the Blue Cycads of Australia highlights the work of Dr. Michael Calonje, MBC Cycad Biologist, and Dr. James Clugston, MBC
Postdoctoral Fellow (pages 4-5). Dr. Patrick Griffith, MBC Executive Director, writes about palm conservation in West Africa (page 3). Also, a decade of Plant Exploration is summarized (pages 6-7), updates on research are listed (page 8), and new collections statistics are displayed (page 9). The last page of the newsletter thanks the late Donald G. Smith for supporting a new endowment for the restoration of Nell’s House, which was designed by his father, the architect Robert Fitch Smith. We would also like to thank all of you who supported conservation, research, and education at Montgomery Botanical Center.
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