[PCA] NEWS: In Atlanta, an expanded botanical mission

[Olivia Kwong]

http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/12/10/in-atlanta-an-expanded-botanical-mission/

In Atlanta, an expanded botanical mission
The Atlanta Botanical Garden is among the public gardens working to
ensure the survival of threatened and endangered plants.
By Emily Badger | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
December 10, 2008 edition

Atlanta -- Jenny Cruse-Sanders had just returned from a week of trekking 
through the Florida Panhandle in search of Torreya taxifolia, a scraggly
conifer that looks like a Christmas tree and smells sort of like tomatoes.

The tree exists only in that northern sliver of Florida, which butts
right up to the Georgia border. Botanists in the area noticed after
World War II that the torreya was dying off. Within another 15 years,
reproductive-age adult trees were entirely gone -- all because of a
disease experts are still struggling to identify 40 years later.

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