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Northern Arizona University Deaver Herbarium
(ASC)
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Teaching Greenhouse and Living Collections
NAU's teaching greenhouse was built circa 1970 to provide living plant
material for a number of lab courses in the Department of Biological
Sciences. The facility includes 2,000 square feet of greenhouse and
150 square feet of preparation area organized to provide specific habitats
such as hot dry deserts and cool moist cloud forest. Tree frogs breed
in the two ponds that house the aquatic plant collections. The facility
also houses extensive collections of orchids and succulents from the
tropics worldwide. One to two student workers staff the facility and
provide year round care for the collections. The NAU Botany Club also
helps maintain the facility by volunteering two hours each week. Each
year three to four tours are given to K-12 school classes from the
Flagstaff area and the Navajo and Hopi reservations.
Website: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~ayers/Greenhouse/index.htm
Contact: Tina Ayers, faculty supervisor
Teaching Greenhouse
Department of Biological Sciences
NAU Box 5640
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5640
Phone: (928) 523-1099
FAX: (928) 523-7500
Email: Tina.Ayers@nau.edu |
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