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Archbold
Biological Station
Lake Placid, Florida. Long-term ecological research and conservation
with a primary focus on the organisms and environments of Lake
Wales Ridge and adjacent lands in central Florida.
Botany
Section- Division of Plant Industry
The Botany Section of the Bureau
of Entomology, Nematology, Plant Pathology, curates the State Division of Plant
Industry Herbarium (PIHG), which maintains a comprehensive seed archive. Fairchild
Tropical Garden
Miami, Florida botanical garden specializing in Palm
Biology, South Florida Plants and Environments, Caribbean Biodiversity, and Tropical
Fruit Crops.
Florida
Museum of Natural History
Gainesville,
Florida. Research, collections, exhibits, programs. South
Florida Natural Resources Center (SFNRC)- old name South Florida Research Center
Based in Everglades National Park, research areas
also include Big Cypress National Preserve (to the north of the park), Biscayne
National Park (on the coast, east of the park), and Dry Tortugas National Park
(west of Key West). Access Publications through the Everglades
Digital Library. University
of Florida Herbarium (FLAS)
Combined
collections of 1/2 million specimens: Vascular flora of Florida, the southeastern
United States coastal plain and Haiti; bryophytes and lichens from Florida and
tropical areas, especially Costa Rica, Venezuela and Brazil; Florida fungi, especially
agarics and polypores; worldwide wood collection, especially tropical; and an
international paleobotanical collection, ranging from the Proterozoic to the Pleistocene. University
of Miami Gifford Arboretum
Coral
Gables, Florida. Study of tropical plants.
Botany Contents
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Last update this page:8/15/2005
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