If you wish to find out whether we grow a particular plant within our collection please e-mail us and we will check our database for you.

celia.sawyer@obg.ox.ac.uk

Seed harvested during 2008

The following list represents seed available for exchange with other institutions working in the areas of research, breeding, conservation and education. We exchange on the following conditions:

1. The seeds are supplied for educational and non-profit making scientific purposes. If any financial gain is made from the plants grown from the seeds then that profit is subject to the spirit of the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity.

2. The University of Oxford Botanic Garden would expect to be cited in any scientific papers resulting from research in which plants grown from the Garden’s seeds are used.

3. The University of Oxford Botanic Garden reserves the right not to supply seeds that it considers might become pernicious invasive weeds if they were to escape from the confines of the receiving institution.

4. It is assumed by the University of Oxford Botanic Garden that the receiving institution will not order seeds of species that might escape from their garden and become invasive weeds. The final responsibility for deciding which species may become invasive remains with the receiving garden since the staff in that garden will have a better knowledge of local conditions than the Garden Staff in Oxford. The University of Oxford Botanic Garden accepts no responsibility for any ecological damage caused by plants raised from the seeds that it supplies.

The Garden recognises the classification system of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group as published in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 2003, 141399-436. This list is in keeping with our ongoing mission of offering quality seed in sufficient quantity and which has been properly identified. Our aim is to compile short seed lists, offering interesting and quality accessions of noteworthy species in order to ensure they remain a useful resource for botanical institutions. We will continue to focus on specialist collections held at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Harcourt Arboretum. As such, as an NCCPG Collection Holder of Hardy Euphorbia species, we intend our seed lists to contain a good representation of this taxon.

The seeds collected for the compilation of this list have been open pollinated and are being cultivated at the Garden both out of doors and under glass.