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Hope in Bloom: The Rescued Rwandan Miniature Water Lily (Nymphaea thermarum) Finds New Life.

Pascal Sibomana, plant conservationist at the National Herbarium, University of Rwanda – celebrates the first flowering ex situ specimen of Nymphaea thermarum (Nymphaceae), the Rwandan miniature water lily previously believed to be extinct but rediscovered in 2023. […]

Neviusia alabamensis collection in Missouri Botanical Garden greenhouse

Neviusia alabamensis collection that was grown in the Missouri Botanical Garden greenhouse to be used in a research project studying genetic and phenotypic variation among wild populations. […]

Neviusia alabamensis root cutting

A root cutting of Neviusia alabamensis being collected to be transported back to the Missouri Botanical Garden for propagation. […]

Alpine Plants and Seed Collection

Alexandra Seglias (Denver Botanic Gardens), Nicola Ripley (Betty Ford Alpine Gardens), Brittany Roberts Marshall (Betty Ford Alpine Gardens) Alpine ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to climate change. The Denver Botanic Gardens are seeking to protect rare species from these regions, banking seeds from multiple Alpine populations by maternal line. However, collecting seed from these remote areas […]

Honolulu Botanical Gardens current and future role within a robust conservation community

Talia Portner, Honolulu Botanical Gardens Hawaii has approximately 1400 native plant species of which more than 90% are found nowhere else in the world. However, at least 30% of these species are endangered and 100 have already gone extinct due to land use change, ongoing pressure from introduced species, and the loss of pollinators and […]

Using a zoo model to conserve genetic diversity of critically endangered species ex situ

Jordan Wood, Jeremie Fant, Andrea Kramer and Kay Havens, Chicago Botanic Garden Genetics becomes important whenever populations become small (<100). This includes loss o fgenetic diversity from drift, increased expression of deleterious genes due to inbreeding, and limiting local adaptation. Since many species of plants are able to be seed banked, it is possible to […]

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