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Highlights of the collection include

• Tours from experienced horticulturists and plant lovers.
• 6 unique rooms featuring different growing conditions.
• 69 square feet of bog garden featuring dozens of exotic carnivorous plants, including Dionaea muscicula (Venus fly trap) and species of Drosera (sundews), Nepenthes (monkey cups), Pinguicula (butterworts), and Sarracenia (pitcher plants).
• Multiple Orchid varieties ensure year round flowers!!
• Economically significant crops including
  • Theobroma cacao, cacao (chocolate tree), bearing fruit annually
  • Manihot esculenta, manioc, the source of tapioca
  • Vanilla planifolia, vanilla orchid, from the fruits of which we get vanilla flavoring
  • Coffea arabica, the source of coffee beans

Insructional support technician
Bob Mangan protector of plants

Phone: 619-594-5435
 Email: bmangan@sunstroke.sdsu.edu