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pollination
CPC Pollinator Database
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As Seen on CPC’s Rare Plant Academy: Using Ex Situ Collections to Test Mating Systems – Brighamia insignis
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Lilium pyrophilum
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Sachem skipper nectaring on Melanthera parvifolia flowers
Sachem skipper butterfly visiting flowers of pineland blackanthers (Melanthera parvifolia) at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden nursery ex situ conservation living collection. […]
How Pollination Ecology Can Improve Recovery of the Southeast’s Threatened Flowering Plants
Gavin Shotts, Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University Bashira Chowdhury, Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology, Auburn University Producing seeds is critical to maintaining sustainable populations and adaptive genetic diversity for the Southeast’s threatened flowering plants. Seed production often depends on adequate pollination, which is a frequent concern for threatened plants, and addressing pollination problems […]
Encephalartos heenanii – A Pollination Success Story
Paul Mills, Ganna Walska Lotusland Ganna Walska Lotusland has many important plant collections, but none are more important from a conservation standpoint than the cycad collection. In the collection there are three mature individuals of Encephalartos heenanii which is now believed to be extinct in the wild. Ganna Walska Lotusland is working with the IUCN […]
Curing Plant Blindness
Kay Havens, Chicago Botanic Garden Plant conservation is promoted through outreach and advocacy. One way to cure plant blindness is by engaging the public in authentic research, as illustrated by the Bud Burst citizen science program. After 10 years of crowdsourcing phenology data, Bud Burst managers decided they could better engage the public by bringing them […]
Adding to the Data on Pollinators
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