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Image Title: Disaster offered a unique opportunity to collect and study the apical buds of many large and rare palm trees at Fairchild Tropical Garden
Image Credit: Will Houghton
AJB Editor: Nels R. Lersten, Iowa State University
Intended End User: Teacher, Student
License Details: BSA - Terms for Image Use
Copyright held by: Will Houghton, BSA
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Hurricane Andrew (24 August 1992) blew down many large and rare palm trees at Fairchild Tropical Garden, Miami, Florida. This disaster offered a unique opportunity to collect and study the apical buds of these massive monocotyledons as wells as the root and branch wood of a wide range of tropical dicotyledons.

Link to the AJB Abstract for the article:

The relationship between number of expanding and developing leaves in shoot apices of palms

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