The EEB Plant Growth Facilities, an operating unit of the EEB Biodiversity Research Collections, support the educational and research goals of the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Connecticut. It serves these needs by:

• providing EEB faculty & affiliated researchers with professionally managed growing space to conduct world-class research,
• maintaining a diverse living reference collection to facilitate teaching in basic botany, plant morphology, systematics and related disciplines,
• growing a wide array of plant materials each semester for delivery to introductory & advanced level biology teaching laboratories,
• managing growing areas for graduate and advanced undergraduate student experiments,
• maintaining conservatory areas to augment the teaching of systematic and ecological concepts and demonstrating economically important plants to the UConn community as well as area elementary/secondary/post-secondary and alternative school groups. Conservatory areas are the primary location for public tours and offer publicly accessible display space for notable plants in the reference collection,
• providing facilities, materials & expertise for summer science camps, various special interest seminars and related public outreach programs,
• supporting the educational and research goals of institutions world-wide by contributing to the free exchange of plant material for research and educational purposes.

Greenhouse Notices:

SUMMER HOURS
Until further notice, the official operating hours of the TLS collections will be Mon-Fri from 9am to 3pm. Most days we will likely be here well before 9am and until 4pm but reserve the option to lock up early. Feel free to call ahead - 486-4052 - to verify that someone will be here.

TUE 9 JUN 2009
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FRI 29 MAY 2009
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EEB Greenhouse Special Notice

We will be undertaking some re-organization of our public collection areas over the winter break. These changes are intended to improve the visitor experience and facilitate tours.

The new African Deserts display takes shape in greenhouse 2200

Please pardon our appearance as we move things around a bit in preparation for the spring 2009 season. If you need assistance locating plant materials, do not hesitate to ask our staff.

During our period of reorganization, our plant features will be on a short hiatus. We will attempt to keep the weekly flowering list up to date as much as possible.

Thank you for your cooperation

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EEB Graduate Student Rachel Prunier and assistant collecting data on experimental Protea in EEB Research Greenhouse