Trees of the World
This collection displays a variety of trees from arid lands used for scientific study and landscape design.
Purpose and scope of the collection
The Trees of the World collection serves as a resource for studies of species from warm desert or semi-arid places around the world. It features trees that are useful in urban residential, commercial, and public landscapes in the Las Vegas Valley and adjacent parts of southern Nevada with similar climatic conditions.
Collection — specific interpretations of this policy and special
- All trees should be accessioned as individuals within the Arboretum Core. All trees should be accessioned as individuals. Outside the Core, accession individual trees when they are part of a limited population of the species on campus.
- Only a few individual shrubs of each species should be accessioned, but they should be from different parts of the campus.
- Emphasize trees adaptable to Climate Zone 11 (Medium to High Deserts of California and Southern Nevada as defined in the Sunset Western Garden Book).
- However, utilize microclimates found on campus to support as many genera and species as practical.
- Display specimens in a variety of landscape uses and styles.
- Plant some trees in taxonomic exhibits (i.e., groups of related species) to facilitate comparison of growth habit among individuals of the same species and between species.
- Plant some trees in geographic exhibits (i.e., with shrubs from the same part of the world) to facilitate studies in ethnobotany and ecology.
Programs supported by the collection
- UNLV Biology: BIO 120 Plants and People, BIO 122 Desert Plants, BIO 148 Natural History of the Desert Southwest, BIO 345 Urban Horticulture, BIO 422 Taxonomy of Vascular Plants, BIO 426 Plant Anatomy, BIO 442 Principles of Plant Physiology
- UNLV Landscape Architecture: AAL 246 Plant Materials, AAL 355 History of Landscape Architecture, second through fifth-year design studios (AAL 284, AAL 286, AAL 384, AAL 386, AAL 484, AAL 486, AAL 494, AAL 496)
- CCSN Ornamental Horticulture: OH 103 Ornamental Plant Identification, OH 107B Landscape Materials, OH 203 Introduction to Plant Pathology and Landscape Pests, OH 205 Landscape Planning/Design, OH 213B Drought Tolerant Landscape Plant Identification
Collection data
Type of collection: Geographic
Year established: 2003
Guidelines created: March 2006
Last revised: March 2006
Proposed by: 2003 Long Range Planning Committee
Location: n/a
Size: n/a
Amenities: n/a
Last inventoried: in progress
Number of species: n/a
Number of specimens: n/a
