Chapman Field
Botanical garden in Coral Gables, Miami
A historic USDA germplasm station conserving tropical fruit trees, sugarcane, palms, and rare crops.
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What to see
- Active USDA agricultural research facility and germplasm repository, closed to casual drop-in public visitation.
- Extensive field collections of tropical and subtropical fruits, including mango, avocado, and lychee varieties.
- National clonal germplasm plantings of sugarcane, related wild grasses, and Tripsacum accessions.
- Living collections of tropical ornamentals, including palms, cycads, and amaryllis family accessions.
- Historic Civilian Conservation Corps stone structures and plant introduction plots established in the 1920s.
Plants you can see here
- Mango Mangifera indica
- Avocado Persea americana
- Sugarcane Saccharum officinarum
- Cacao Theobroma cacao
- Lychee Litchi chinensis
Each opens its page in SimplePlant's plant library, or its plant problems when it has no page yet.
Sources
- Subtropical Horticulture Research - Miami - USDA ARS
- Plant Sciences - Subtropical Horticulture Research - USDA ARS
- A Century of Research with USDA in Miami - USDA ARS
Written from these sources and checked against them by a reviewer model.
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Montgomery Botanical Center
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Coral Reef Park
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Pinecrest Gardens
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R Hardy Matheson County Preserve
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