Florida Torreya Archives - Center for Plant Conservation

Working with Private Landowners to Conserve Critically Endangered Plant Species

Juliet Rynear, Florida Native Plant Society Executive Director The Florida Native Plant Society (FNPS) is working with private landowners to help conserve critically endangered plant species. Two of our projects represent the importance and value of this work: the Warea Partnership Project and the TorreyaKeepers Project. Warea amplexifolia (clasping warea) is a federally-listed endangered plant […]

Cones and Clones to Save Florida Torreya

Posted on April 13, 2020 (November 17, 2020) by Caroline Iacuaniello

The Atlanta Botanical Garden team collects data on surviving trees, between 35 and 100 cm tall, some just missing disaster from 2018’s Hurricane Michael.

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What’s New for Torreya taxifolia, North Ameica’s Rarest Conifer?

Emily E. D. Coffey, Ph.D., Atlanta Botanical Garden Torreya taxifolia, known as the Florida Torreya, is one of the rarest conifers in the world. Once found as a canopy tree, Torreya is an evergreen dioecious tree endemic to a narrow range of bluffs and ravines adjacent to the Apalachicola River in northwest Florida and extreme […]

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