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International Symposium: Revision of Flora Brasiliensis: challenges and opportunitiesNew York Botanical Garden
The New York Botanical Garden is one of the world's great collections of plants, the region's leading educational center for gardening and horticulture, and an international center of plant science. The Botanical Garden is a living museum of plants and a leader in horticultural excellence. It features 50 magnificent gardens and plant collections across 250 beautiful acres.
A National Historic Landmark, the Botanical Garden is also home to the nation's largest Victorian glasshouse, the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, itself a New York City Landmark. The Conservatory's permanent exhibition, A World of Plants, includes tropical rain forests, deserts, and the world's most comprehensive collection of New World palm trees under glass. At the innovative Everett Children's Adventure Garden children explore nature and plant science. The Botanical Garden also includes a 50-acre tract of the original forest that once covered New York City.
The Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory opened in May 2006, marking a new era of scientific research at The New York Botanical Garden's International Plant Science Center. The laboratory is the latest addition in the Botanical Garden's comprehensive 15-year renaissance and will further its urgent mission to discover, decipher, document, and defend Earth's vast biodiversity. A million project, the state-of-the-art Pfizer Laboratory triples the Garden's current research capabilities and provides much-needed quarters to educate and train the next generation of plant scientists. The laboratory houses the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Program for Molecular Systematics Studies and the Garden's Genomics Program, including the New York Plant Genomics Consortium. It also serves as a home base for the Botanical Garden's large Graduate Studies Program and provides meeting rooms for visiting scholars.
The New York Botanical Garden is unique among museums and public places in America, offering sweeping landscapes and curated gardens, expansive forests and artful plantings, and presenting the works of many of the nation's most accomplished architects and designers, both past and contemporary. The scope and excellence of the Botanical Garden's programs in horticulture, education, and science are rivaled by few and exceeded by none.
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