Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

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Name

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
Herbarium Code

FTG
Current Status

Active
Correspondents

Brett Jestrow, Curator, bJestrow@fairchildgarden.org
Contact

[1] 305 667 1651 ext. 3427
Fax: [1] 305 661 8953
Email: bjestrow@fairchildgarden.org
Address

Herbarium
Center for Tropical Plant Conservation
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
11935 Old Cutler Road
Coral Gables, Florida 33156-4242
U.S.A.
http://www.virtualherbarium.org/
CITES

US 063
Specialty

Taxonomic Coverage: Native plants, cultivated plants; Arecaceae and Cycadales worldwide

Geography: Florida and West Indies
Notes

Updated Sep 2013 (phone number updated). Updated Feb 2017 (specimen number, important collections, journal, specialty, and staff updated).
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Date Founded

1967
Updated

22/05/2019
Associated Institution

Associated garden: Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road.
Incorporated Herbaria

BUS (15 000 specimens) in 1999;
FAU in part (35 000 specimens) in 2001.
Important Collectors

D. Austin, G. Avery, W. M. Buswell, D. S. Correll, H. B. Correll, F. Craighead, W. T. Gillis, R. K. Godfrey, W. L. McCart, R. O. Woodbury, E. Fried, M.M. Mejía, G. Proctor