Marie Selby Botanical Gardens

The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (15 acres, including 9 acres of display gardens) is the only botanical garden in the world dedicated to the display and study of epiphytes, especially orchids and bromeliads, and their canopy ecosystems, with a focus on botany, horticulture and environmental education. Ongoing research and exploration for tropical plants attracts worldwide attention of international scholars and plant enthusiasts. It is located on the grounds of the former home of Marie and William Selby (of the Texaco Oil Company) at 900 South Palm Avenue, in the heart of Sarasota, Florida, USA, and open to the public 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day but Christmas.

Flora

The Gardens feature the most diverse living and preserved collections of epiphytes in the world, and feature more than 20,000 living plants including 5,500 orchids, 3,500 bromeliads and 1,600 other plants.The living collection is accompanied by an herbarium, with dried and preserved specimens of tropical flora; the world's second largest spirit collection consisting of vials of mostly orchid flowers in preservative fluids; and a library. More than 150 expeditions to the tropics and subtropics have contributed to these collections. Selby Gardens' botanists have discovered or described more than 2,000 plant species previously unknown to science.

For the casual visitor, the Gardens maintain banyans, bamboo, live oaks, palms, mangroves, succulents, wildflowers, cycads, bromeliads, a butterfly garden, a fragrance garden, an edible garden and a koi pond, on a site bordering Sarasota Bay. The interactive Ann Goldstein Children's Rainforest Garden is designed to help children develop a life-long appreciation for rainforest plants.

Divisions

The Christie Payne Mansion, home of the Museum of Botany and the Arts
Location Sarasota, Florida
Coordinates 27°19′40″N 82°32′25″W / 27.32778°N 82.54028°W / 27.32778; -82.54028Coordinates: 27°19′40″N 82°32′25″W / 27.32778°N 82.54028°W / 27.32778; -82.54028
Architectural style Colonial Revival
NRHP Reference # 98001201[1]
Added to NRHP September 25, 1998

Major divisions of the Gardens are as follows:

Selby Botanical Gardens Press

The Selby Botanical Gardens Press publishes the research journal Selbyana – The Journal of The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, botanical books, proceedings, field guides, and posters. Selbyana (ISSN 0361-185X, OCLC 612168862),[2] published since 1975, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal issued twice a year, focusing on research on canopy biology and tropical plants, especially epiphytes.[3] This includes many papers on gesneriads, including valuable contributions by Hans Wiehler and Larry Skog, bromeliads and orchids.[4]

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See also

References

  1. Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
  3. "SBG Press". Marie Selby Botanical Gardens. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  4. John R. Clark (January 22, 2009). "Selbyana - a source for gesneriad publications". Gesneriad Research Center. Retrieved May 24, 2015.

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