Greenhouse
The Biology Department is very excited to have a full greenhouse facility on campus, opening in spring 2019. The greenhouse will greatly enhance the department, the university and the community.
Help fill the greenhouse with plants for lab projects and experiments. Each gift will go towards purchasing a wide variety of specimens for research.
Sponsorship Levels
Texas Bluebonnet
Sideoats Grama
San Angelo Yucca
Texas Live Oak
What’s in the Greenhouse?
What kinds of plants will be in the greenhouse? Lots! The greenhouse will house three different biomes in separate spaces. Your gift will support the purchase of plants that go in each biome of the greenhouse.
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Tropical Room
This biome is a tropical habitat that features a living wall full of orchids and unique ferns, tanks for aquatic plants, a bog, floating island and carnivorous plants. Plants in this room may include:
Aquatic
- Pitcher plants
- Venus fly traps
- Butterworts
- Bladderworts
- Carnivorous bromeliads
- Sundews
- Water wheel
- Bog plants
- bog violet
- bog orchid
- golden club
- bog club moss
- sphagnum moss
Living wall
- Lipstick plant
- Common dianella
- Dischidias
- Epiphytic ferns and orchids
- Selaginellas
- Air plants
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Xeric Room
This biome features high temperatures, dry habitats, exotic succulents and fascinating cacti. Plants in this room may include:
- Ric rac orchid cactus
- Rose cactus
- Aloes
- Euphorbias and jatrophas
- Agaves
- Crassulas
- Sedums
- Desert rose
- Wonder plant
- Bottle adenium
- Chalk sticks
- Black succulent
- Miniature desert rose
- Living stone plants
- Starfish flower
- Limestone living rocks
- Life saver plant
- Ox tongue
- Climbing rock plant
- Kalanchoes and kodedamas
- Aeoniums
- Haworthias
- Echeverias
- Sempervivums
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Temperate Room
This biome features sensory gardens to entice visitors, medicinal plants, food plants and a variety of unusual plants. Plants in this room may include:
Sensory Garden
- Albuca ‘Frizzle Sizzle’
- Black cotton
- Black jewel orchid
- Banana shrub
- Jasmine
- Mints
- Dutchman’s pipes
- Carrion plants
- Cobra lily
- Sensitive vine
Edible Plants
- Black pepper
- Dragon fruit
- Kumquat
- Key lime
- Vanilla vine
- Pineapple
Wow Plants
- Corpse flower
- Voodoo lily
- Night blooming cereus
- Bird of paradise
- Black bamboo
- Black bat flower
- Baseball bat sansevieria
- Elephant’s foot
- Lady slipper orchids
- White rabbits foot fern
