by Theresa Bramblett | Dec 5, 2012 | News, Research
A new species of Zamia from the Eastern Cordillera Mountain Range of Huila, Colombia was recently described by MBC’s cycad biologist Michael Calonje (pictured at center) along with colleagues from the TOLI herbarium (Hector Esquivel, at left), Jardín Botánico José...
by Theresa Bramblett | Nov 1, 2012 | Publications
Puerto Rican cycads are very intriguing! Dr. Alan Meerow and colleagues, including Montgomery staff, have just published a paper in the American Journal of Botany detailing the results of extensive fieldwork and labwork focused on the Zamia native to Puerto Rico....
by Theresa Bramblett | Mar 2, 2012 | Newsletter
Spring/Summer 2012 Newsletter Spring/Summer 2012 – Volume 20, Number 1 Read the latest issue of our newsletter here. This new issue has articles about a new Giant Zamia, and discusses fieldwork in Florida, Texas, Colombia, and on the Island of Mona. It also...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jan 28, 2012 | Events
On January 28th, New York Botanical Garden, Florida International University, Fairchild Tropical Garden, and Montgomery Botanical Center offered a Cycad Biology Course to teachers from Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The course was sponsored by the National Science...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jan 1, 2012 | Publications, Research
Montgomery begins the New Year with an exciting new discovery — a new species of cycad, Zamia tolimensis, from the “Cordillera Central” mountain range of Colombia. This new species is remarkable for being a large, treelike Zamia — The leaves can be up to 8 feet long,...
