2009 Gifford Arboretum Lecture & Celebration of the 200 th Anniversary of the Birth of Charles Darwin Lúcia Lohmann will speak on “Disentangling one of Darwin’s great mysteries: The story of climbing plants” Welcome Celebration of Darwin Lecture Darwin’s Birthday Party

Charles Darwin B.A John Stevens Henslow professor of botany Voyage of the Beagle 1859 The Origin of Species The Complete Works of Charles Darwin On-line

The movement and habit of climbing plants (Many editions ) “It has often been vaguely asserted that plants are distinguished from animals by not having the power of movement. It should rather be said that plants acquire and display this power only when it is of some advantage to them; this being of comparatively rare occurrence as … food is brought to them by the air and rain.”

Welcome to the John C. Gifford Arboretum University of Miami Founded in 1947, the John C. Gifford Arboretum is a living collection of tropical trees. Famil y and Order Exhibits each is a lineage of trees with shared evolved characteristics Gymnosperms & Basal Angiosperms several distinct lineages that retain ancient characteristics South Florida Natives What is a Tree? Maya Cocoa Garden Locate the exhibits on the map to the right and wander the trails to view the plants. You will discover an amazing array of forms, textures and scents: leaves, trunks, flowers, fruits and chemistry, providing food, fiber, medicine, perfume and more, not to mention wood. Enjoy! Sapindales: the lychee, mahogany, mango, citrus, and gumbo limbo order Moraceae & other Rosales: the fig family, a part of the rose, hemp, and elm order Arecaceae: the palm family Bignoniaceae: the trumpet tree and jacaranda family Sapotaceae & other Ericales: the sapodilla family, a part of the ebony, brazil nut, and tea order Myrtales: the guava, tropical almond, henna, and princess flower order Malvales: the hibiscus, kapok, cocoa, baobab, and dipterocarp order Fabaceae: the bean, mimosa, and poinciana family Gymnosperms & Basal Angiosperms: bearers of cones and ancient flowers Euphorbiaceae & other Malpighiales: the spurge family, a part of the passion flower, willow and and fried egg tree order rosids monocots eurosids II asterids eurosids I eudicots euasterids I Gymnosperms Moraceae & other Rosales Sapotaceae & other Ericales Fabaceae Basal Angiosperms Sapindales Malvales What is a Tree? Arecaceae South Florida Natives Myrtales Euphorbiaceae & other Malpighiales Maya Cocoa Garden Bignoniaceae A PHYLOGENETIC TREE portrays evolutionary relationships of groups of species. Groups on nearby branches are more closely related. This one was adapted from the “Angiosperm Phylogeny Website” of the Missouri Botanical Garden (2007) to show you how the groups of plants in the John C. Gifford Arboretum are related. RENOVATION March 2008 Master Plan by Geomantic Designs Exhibits planned and designed by John Cozza Funding provided by Institute of Museum and Library Services Friends of the Gifford Arboretum University of Miami

“ Disentangling one of Darwin’s great mysteries: The story of climbing plants ” Lúcia Lohmann Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil