Tours of the Botany Greenhouse and Medicinal Herb Garden led by Graduate Students
- Advance registration required.When:
Saturday, April 29, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: Botany Greenhouse - View Map
Cost: Free
Contact: Liorah Wichser, bluefish@u.washington.edu, 206.685.2185
More information:
http://depts.washington.edu/biology/greenhouse
Saturday, April 29th
11am Greenhouse Tour
2pm Greenhouse Tour
4pm Medicinal Herb Garden Tour
To best accommodate our docents and guests, please RSVP for the date and time you would like to take the tour. Please use the online sign-up form or call (206) 685-2185. There will be a sign-up sheet available at the greenhouse during Washington Weekend.
The Botany Greenhouse is both a research and teaching facility, unusual by comparison to other top universities’ greenhouses for its size (16,000 sq. feet) and unique collection of rare plants from around the world. The teaching collections are divided into four rooms, each featuring plants from different climatic regions, to teach students about biodiversity. These plants typically have unusual pollination mechanisms or unique growth habit.
Visit the Botany Greenhouse site for more details about the facility.
Some of the highlights of the collection include:
-Orchids: more than 800 species.
-Cacti and other xeric plants: over 300 species of cacti, plus a large collection of succulent plants that grow alongside xeric trees and shrubs, and tuberous food plants.
-Corpse flower: (Amorphophallus titanium) The rare event of seeing a nine-foot tall inflorescence that smells like rotten meat attracts many curious visitors to the greenhouse.
-Other interesting groups of plants include: Carnivorous plants, Ant plants, Passion flowers (90 species), Ferns and fern allies, Tropical food plants, Aquatic plants, Bromeliads, and the Miracle berry.
The Medicinal Herb Garden
Located across from the Botany Greenhouse, the Medicinal Herb Garden is a resource for herbalists, medical students, and botanists of all levels. UW faculty, students and staff as well as visitors from the community can enjoy this rich collection of medicinal plants. One of the largest collections of its kind, it is an invaluable source of information about the uses of plants in medicine as practiced by many cultures throughout history up to and including the most modern applications.
File under: Biology
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