News & Happenings from the EEB Greenhouses at the University of Connecticut.
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UCONN - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Plant Growth Facilities
Greenhouse staffer Matt Opel traveled to Elizabeth Park in Hartford the other day, and set up a small educational display of cacti and succulents on behalf of the Connecticut C&S Society. Some of the plants are on loan from the EEB greenhouses. Elizabeth Park will have the plants for the next few months, so stop in if ...you're in Hartford and want to get a sample of what you can see at UConn or at the CCSS annual show.Več
UCONN - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Plant Growth Facilities Friday Stink Alert - if you wander into the Asian tropics zone today, you may think it smells like an unkempt horse barn. Follow your nose on over to the India section to experience this Sauromatum in person.....
Vir: florawww.eeb.uconn.edu
EEB Greenhouse Accession Data for Sauromatum venosum :: Location: AUS:India C :: 2 Image(s) available
UCONN - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Plant Growth Facilities Cute as a button - these tiny Epithelantha micromeris ssp. micromeris (common name = Button Cactus) seedlings are coming along nicely. Only about 1 cm in diameter they are indeed the size of buttons. But fear not, they will get larger with time....
UCONN - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Plant Growth Facilities an interesting audio slideshow from NSF on a multi-decade growth spurt in high elevation bristlecone pines in the Sierra. Click on the slideshow link for some gorgeous images and commentary....
nsf.gov - National Science Foundation (NSF) News - Growth Spurt in Tree Rings Prompts Questions Abou
Vir: www.nsf.gov
Anyone who has ever cut down a tree is familiar with the rings radiating out from the center of a tree trunk marking the tree's age. Careful study of tree rings can offer much more: a rich record of history and indications of concerns for the future. ...
UCONN - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Plant Growth Facilities Our larger Aloe vera is beginning to open its flower spike this week in the Mediterranean room. Click on the link to read a great article on the ethnobotany and horticulture of the Genus Aloe from our friends at the UC-Davis Botanical Conservatory.
Vir: greenhouse.ucdavis.edu
UCONN - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Plant Growth Facilities
Oleanderleaf Protea from South Africa is blooming this weekend!
The greenhouses will be open today (Saturday) from 10am to 2pm if anyone feels like dropping by. I'll be there giving some tours to BIO1108 students from the Avery Point campus as well as some Girl Scouts later on.
Vir: florawww.eeb.uconn.edu
EEB Greenhouse Accession Data for Protea neriifolia :: Location: MED:tbd :: 1 Image(s) available
UCONN - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Plant Growth Facilities will be closing at 2:30pm this afternoon. Please plan accordingly. Thanks...
UCONN - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Plant Growth Facilities got in a new myrmecophytic epiphyte today - Hoya imbricata var. basiorotunda - a very striking vine with cupped leaves that harbor ants in a symbiotic relationship. Well placed roots under the leaves absorb waste from the ants to nourish the plant. Very cool. Not currently in the public area - please ask if you'd like to see it...
UCONN - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Plant Growth Facilities
a neat epiphytic ericoid (related to blueberries and azaleas) endemic
to the montane cloud forests of Ecuador in bloom this week. Its up on
the epiphyte tree so you'll have to look overhead. Produces a
substantial lignotuber as well though you may need to get up on the
ladder to view the lignotuber. Marginal photo for n...ow, I'll try to get
some better photos posted to the main website page later on. Enjoy....Več
to the montane cloud forests of Ecuador in bloom this week. Its up on
the epiphyte tree so you'll have to look overhead. Produces a
substantial lignotuber as well though you may need to get up on the
ladder to view the lignotuber. Marginal photo for n...ow, I'll try to get
some better photos posted to the main website page later on. Enjoy....Več
UCONN - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Plant Growth Facilities A quick Monday morning read.... time to go check the plants...
Vir: www.nytimes.com
Peruvians pose what might be a final challenge to the ecosystem supported by the giant huarango tree, which is coveted as a source of charcoal and firewood.
UCONN - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Plant Growth Facilities
Which came first - the flower or the pollinator? Before angiosperms (flowering plants) arrived on the scenes, most primitive plants were wind pollinated, but a new report in this weeks journal Science suggests animal pollinators were here in the Mesozoic before the flowers showed up.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/32
Vir: www.livescience.com
Animal pollinators were flitting about long before flowering plants evolved.
UCONN - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Plant Growth Facilities will be closing at 2:30pm this afternoon due to short staffing. Please plan accordingly...
UCONN - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Plant Growth Facilities Lots of different orchids in bloom today - Cycnoches barthorium, Stanhopea graveolens (very fragrant), Eria convallarioides, Cattleya trianae var. alba and Zygopetalum mackayi among others.
Vir: florawww.eeb.uconn.edu
EEB Greenhouse Accession Data for Zygopetalum mackayi :: Location: Bench :: 1 Image(s) available
UCONN - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Plant Growth Facilities welcomes Ms. Devan Parker to the greenhouse staff as a temporary Collections Horticulturist. Ms. Parker comes to us from Framingham State and will be responsible for daily care of the tropical collections. She will be working 9:30am to 2pm most weekdays. We look forward to Devan's assistance in maintaining our plant collections.
UCONN - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Plant Growth Facilities A little too close to home for comfort... I'll be revisiting our own security policies over the next few weeks to ensure we're doing everything prudent to protect our valuable plant resources.
Vir: www.yaledailynews.com
The large, humid Greenhouse No. 2, which is part of the complex located near the Yale Divinity School, houses a panoply of different plants, some hanging from the roof, others protruding into the aisles. ...
