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	W³TROPICOS QUICK SEARCH MO PROJECTS: Africa Asia/Pacific Mesoamerica North America South America General Taxonomy Photo Essays Training in Latin   America MO RESEARCH: Wm. L. Brown Center Bryology GIS Graduate Studies Research Experiences   for Undergraduates Imaging Lab Library MBG Press Publications Climate Change Catalog Fossil Plants MO DATABASES: W³MOST Image Index Rare Books Angiosperm   Phylogeny Res Botanica All Databases INFORMATION: What's New? People at MO Visitor's Guide Herbarium Jobs & Fellowships Symposium Research Links Site Map Search	table of contents    Tropical forests are disappearing so rapidly that we will never know everything about them. These ecosystems include the most poorly known and least explored places on Earth. Curator Henk van der Werff, deputy director of research, is one of the world's few specialists in Lauraceae, the laurel family, which includes hundreds of species of tropical trees valued for their timber, spices, and fruits. He has described 124 species new to science. Photo: Bruce Gray. Frontiers of Discovery: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Next Section >> Text and photos from "The Unseen Garden" available from MBG Press.
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