BBG Brooklyn Botanical Garden. By Lena Mei, Savita Ramlall, and Edwin Gonzalez Mentor: Dr. Gerry Moore Co Mentor: Paul and Cathy. About The Garden. The Garden is 52 splendid acres founded in 1910. This Garden features more than 10,000 kinds of plants from around the world.
By Lena Mei, Savita Ramlall, and Edwin Gonzalez
Mentor: Dr. Gerry Moore
Co Mentor: Paul and Cathy
The interactive keys is a computer program that helps identify and can also be used for synopsis of a classification of plants.
We are trying to add pictures to the interactive keys to show how the actual plant looks like. This will help researchers or people who are interested in plants identify their plants.
A computer program that process information to identify a certain plant.
The Woody Genera of The New York Metropolitan AreaWhat Interactive keys are?
A herbarium is a cold room that has huge cabinets which preserves dried plant specimens from The New York Metropolitan area and plants from around the world.
Edwin is behind the door. LMAO :P
Allow scientists to
1) preserve plants for 100s of years
2) study specimens throughout the world without traveling
3) study specimens collected during other time periods (e.g., 1700s, 1800s)
4) To allow researchers to extract DNA from old plants, to see how the species has evolved through time.
To grow plants from other areas and research on the plants.
We had to package seeds to send to different botanical gardens around the world. Some times we ran out of seed to send.