Time travel and ancient plants
Boyce Tankersley (Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:02:41 PST)

Boyce Tankersley
Director of Living Plant Documentation
Chicago Botanic Garden
1000 Lake Cook Road
Glencoe, IL 60022
tel: 847-835-6841
fax: 847-835-1635
email: btankers@chicagobotanic.org
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[mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Diane Whitehead
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 3:04 PM
To: Pacific Bulb Society
Subject: Re: [pbs] Time travel and ancient plants

Hi All:

A quick clarification on the NAPCC. It contains wild and cultivated
plants. Both groups must be verified by an expert to be true to name.
Theoretically, a plant society can partner with a botanic garden to host
one of the NAPCC collections. In reality, the challenges of creating a
working relationship that will span multiple human generations has been
overwhelming.

" The North American Plant Collections Consortium (NAPCC) registers
collections at botanic gardens and arboreta. All the plants must be
of known wild provenance. It is an expensive program, as the
institution must pay the expenses of an expert to come and certify
the collection.

Diane Whitehead"

Boyce Tankersley
Director of Living Plant Documentation
Chicago Botanic Garden
Glencoe, IL 60022
Visit our website at http://www.chicagobotanic.org/ for more information.

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