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Rare discovery by the Garden since 1985

I added this here, because - The Garden is a center for botanical research and science education of international repute, as well as an oasis in the city of St. Louis, with 79 acres (31 hectares) of horticultural display. It will be unfair to attribute the discovery of this rarest plant just to a mere scientist of this Garden. So, this Garden is the real reason for the discovery: On May, 2008, St. Louis botanist George Yatskievych and a colleague, with the Missouri Botanical Garden, rediscovered and identified (in Sierra Madre del Sur, a pine oak forest in Mexico's mountains) a rare odd, orange-brown, fleshy-stemmed parasitic plant, first found in 1985 by Wayt Thomas, New York Botanical Garden scientist. A type of Orobanchaceae, the pine cone-shaped dense cluster of flowers and juicy celery-like stalks plant will have the formal Latin name for the "little hermit of Mexico," both a new species and a new genus because "it is so unusual and distinct that it cannot be included in any of the existing genera in the plant family Orobanchaceae". There are echoes in this plant’s lifestyle of species such as Orthilia secunda, which steals its goodness from funghi.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] --Florentino floro (talk) 06:48, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

General Editing/Housekeeping

Per the suggestion of the Garden's Web Editor, I am going to delete "From 1991 to 1993...George H.W. Bush)." The Garden wishes to remain as apolitical as possible and this piece of information seems out of place.

I am also proposing to delete "The 2003 annual report...with PhDs" for reasons along the same lines. It just seems out of place.

Also, I propose to make changes regarding the Garden's president. Dr. Raven has recently retired; his position is being filled by Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson. ^[5]

Mbgcommunications (talk) 20:46, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

[1] t.org, ParasiticPlantRediscovery

[2] s.nature.com, Parasitic hermit plant found in Mexico - May 01, 2008

[3] ws.yahoo.com, Scientist rediscovers rare plant unseen since 1985

[4] .google.com, Scientist rediscovers rare plant unseen since 1985

[5] ttps://www.mobot.org/press/Assets/FP/pwj.asp

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