Speaker: Dr. Patrick Griffith, the Executive Director of the Montgomery Botanical Center

Topic: Searching for the World’s Largest Coconut on the Palmyra Atoll

The Palmyra Atoll is right at the center of nowhere in the Pacific Ocean, 3,300 miles southwest of North America and 3,300 miles northeast of New Zealand.  Until last November, no one had collected any of the remarkable native coconuts in over a century.  But then Dr. Patrick Griffith and his team from Montgomery Botanical Center traveled to the atoll to observe and collect seeds of the Palmyra palm….

Come and hear what they found!