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As Seen on CPC’s Rare Plant Academy: Assessing Sites In the Field before Conservation Seed Collection

Posted on May 9, 2023 (May 11, 2023) by Shannon Fowler

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Save Plants: April 2023 Newsletter

Posted on April 6, 2023 (April 6, 2023) by Shannon Fowler

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Best Practices Enhance Atlanta Botanical Garden’s Legacy Work with Mountain Bogs

Posted on April 6, 2023 (April 6, 2023) by Shannon Fowler

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Green Pitcher Plant

Bright green pitchers and flowers are on display during a monitoring trip to plan for the subsequent seed collection. […]

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Sarracenia oreophila in situ

S. oreophila pitchers during floral monitoring for a maternal line seed collection. […]

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Data & Seed Collection

C. socialis […]

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achenes of Clematis socialis

achenes at a site in Alabama are collected by Atlanta Botanical Garden’s Micropropagation & Seed Bank Coordinator, Jason Ligon. […]

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Florida Yew Makes The Cut

 floridana, C, these cuttings will be used to establish propagation protocols, following ABG\’s successful methods for close relative […]

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What Are You Willing To Sacrifice?

At the ABG Conservation Seed Bank, a few freshly harvested seeds of Florida Yew (Taxus floridana) were sacrificed, having their characteristic fleshly red cup (aril) removed before weighing and drying to determine the average moisture content. This value will be used to desiccate remaining seeds to a moisture content of precisely 4-7% before entering a germination […]

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Not An Early Riser

West’s Flax (Linum westii Rogers) has adorable little yellow flowers that only open in the evening so surveys are best done in the afternoon, perfect for folks who are not early risers. […]

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Paper-like Whitlow-wort – Enjoy It While It Lasts

Paronychia chartacea var. minima) in full bloom along the margin of a karst lake, formed by the collapse of a cave. […]

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Pinewoods Aster In the Bag

Eurybia spinulosa […]

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Small but Mighty Pinewoods Aster

Eurybia spinulosa in flower during the site assessment in early August. […]

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Baker’s Tickseed

Coreopsis bakeri, Baker’s tickseed, flower with a tumbling flower beetle (Family: Mordellidae) visitor.  […]

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Ex situ Conservation and Ontogenesis of Torreya taxifolia Embryos

Neusa Steiner, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Emily Coffey, Atlanta Botanical Garden, Jason Ligon, Atlanta Botanical Garden, Lisa Hill, USDA-ARS, Emma Dorr, USDA-ARS, Laurie Blackmore, Atlanta Botanical Garden, Christina Walters, USDA-ARS Torreya taxifolia Arn (Taxaceae) is an ancestral evergreen tree on the brink of extinction. This dioecious plant is found in the Florida panhandle and is threatened by a fungal pathogen. […]

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Details of Hairy-peduncled Beakrush

Collected seeds of a single maternal line of Rhynchospora crinipes as seen through the microscope’s lens, […]

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Liatris gholsonii in full bloom

Liatris gholsonii in flower during the initial Site Assessment to estimate from how many maternal lines seeds will be collected at the time of Seed Collection. […]

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DNA Banking Gholson’s Blazingstar

Atlanta Botanical Garden Field Biologist Cami Adams prepares to collect a DNA leaf sample parallel to the maternal line seed collected of Liatris gholsonii. […]

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