Teaching Collections

Tropical


• The Tropical collection includes plants that normally grow in tropical areas with temperatures generally in the 80's and a minimum temp of 65F. Plants in this collection include Coffee, Pineapple, Banana, Cycads, Palms, and an unusual Aroid, Amorphophallus riveri, which sports a 7-foot tall inflorescence in the spring.

Sub-tropical


• The Sub-Tropical Collection area houses our large fern collection including Staghorn ferns, tree ferns and a climbing fern, as well as a number of fragrant Jasmines, flowering vines, Sweet Olive and Bird-of Paradise. We also have a fine specimen of Piper nigrum, source of commercial black pepper.

Xeric


• This desert collection room includes a great number of plants in the cactus family as well as individuals from other families that tolerate dry conditions, like some members of the Lily family, the milkweed family, and the poinsettia family. Of special interest is our caudiciform collection, an unusual and rare group of plants that store water by developing a thickened underground stem.

Aquatic

Research

Brout Orchid Collection

Carnivorous Plant Collection
Pinguicula moranensis
Drosera Adelae
Nepenthes Hookerana
• Other collections include Medicinal and Economic plants.