Irish Botany News
The National Botanic Gardens has had a long history of involvement in the cultivation of the native flora of Ireland. One of our most remarkable survivors is Carex buxbaumii (Club Sedge). David Moore, Curator of the Gardens from 1838 to 1879, was the original...
Irish Botany News
A new educational display of the extinct Irish ‘Sea Stock’ is being established at the National Botanic Gardens as part of its native plant conservation and education programme on the threatened flora of Ireland. In 2006 the National Botanic Gardens initiated a...
Irish Botany News
Intensive fieldwork by bryologists David Holyoak and Nick Hodgetts over the past few years has yielded a host of new mosses and liverworts for Ireland. In 2005, David Holyoak described a new species of moss collected at Lough Oughter in Co. Cavan – Ephemerum...
Irish Botany News
In May 2005, Tony O’Mahony discovered the diminutive sand-dune grass Mibora minima at Cannawee dune system in West Cork, the first record of this species in Ireland. Other coastal plants we have ‘yet’ to find in Ireland are Ononis reclinata, Rumex...
Irish Botany News
The National Botanic Gardens Glasnevin hosted the 1st international conference of the Global Partnership for Plant Conservation over four days in October 2005. It was the largest international meeting ever held at the National Botanic Gardens and included 120...
Irish Botany News
Wollemia nobilis was discovered in August 1994 by David Noble, a National Parks and Wildlife Services Officer, in the Wollemi National Park in Sydney’s Blue Mountains. Sydney Botanists recognised the plant as belonging to the Monkey Puzzle tree family,...
