Montgomery Botanical Center
Botanical garden in Coral Gables, Miami
A 120-acre living scientific collection devoted to wild-origin palms, cycads, and champion trees.
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What to see
- The 19-acre Palm Walk, featuring long vistas of Bismarck palms, saw palmettos, and Puerto Rico hat palms.
- The Cycad Walk, displaying thousands of wild-origin specimens and rare cone-bearing plants.
- Historic specimens in the Palmetum dating to Colonel Robert Montgomery's original 1930s plantings.
- Dozens of state and national champion trees, including large marlberry and bitterbush specimens.
- Extensive conservation plantings of rare cycads such as the Cuban palma corcho.
Plants you can see here
- Bismarck palm Bismarckia nobilis
- Palma corcho Microcycas calocoma
- Puerto Rico hat palm Sabal causiarum
- Florida royal palm Roystonea regia
- Saw palmetto Serenoa repens
- Bitterbush Picramnia pentandra
- Marlberry Ardisia escallonoides
- Shaving brush tree Pseudobombax ellipticum
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Sources
- Montgomery Botanical Center (official site)
- montgomerybotanical.org
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Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
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Matheson Hammock Park
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Chapman Field
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Chapman Field Park
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