by Theresa Bramblett | Jul 11, 2013 | News
On July 10, 2013 in San Diego, California, Montgomery Botanical Center (MBC) received a Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award at the Esri International User Conference (Esri UC). This international award acknowledges vision, leadership, hard work, and innovative use...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jul 1, 2013 | Research
On July 1, Dr. Boglarka Erdei of the Hungarian Natural History Museum began working at Montgomery Botanical Center. Dr. Erdei is scheduled to study Montgomery’s cycad collection for one year. Boglarka has published papers on fossil cycads and is now working on a...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jun 30, 2013 | Grants
Last year, The Villagers awarded MBC a grant to support the restoration of the rear arched door at Nell’s House. The door frames the view down the allée to Royal Lake. Constructed in 1932, the original door warped and was no longer keeping out the elements. The new...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jun 21, 2013 | Publications, Research
Larry Noblick and colleagues have just published an extensive study of New World palms.The work carefully examines the morphology and anatomy of the close relatives of the Coconut Palm – Syagrus, Attalea, Butia and others – and considers how these are all related...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jun 20, 2013 | News
Montgomery is excited to announce a new online resource for cycads — www.cycadlist.org — the official World List of Cycads Website. Cycad biology is a very active field — with new discoveries from ongoing fieldwork, increasing data about cycad diversity, and vigorous...