{"id":641,"date":"2026-01-23T20:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-uwsp-multi.pantheonsite.io\/college-of-letters-and-science\/?page_id=641"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:33:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:33:46","slug":"tropical-conservatory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/college-of-letters-and-science\/tropical-conservatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Conservatory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"bannerheight650 hero-fww bpcc overlay-image-container\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/college-of-letters-and-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/02\/Lyon-scaled-1.jpg)\"><div class=\"smaller-banner\"><div class=\"bannerheight650 bpcc smaller-banner-image-container site-width\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/college-of-letters-and-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/02\/Lyon-scaled-1.jpg)\"><\/div><\/div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgforsmallscrn\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/college-of-letters-and-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/02\/Lyon-scaled-1.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a living classroom inside the Haeni Chemistry Biology Building. The UWSP Tropical Conservatory is home to 300 different species and cultivars from Central and South America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific islands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The space is open to campus and the community. Summer hours are Monday- Friday from 7:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. During the academic year, hours are Monday- Friday from 7:00 a.m.- 7:00 p.m. and weekends 7:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. The Tropical Conservatory is entirely maintained by student workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a class=\"uwspbtn uwsp-btn-solid-purple\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/college-of-letters-and-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/02\/Tropical-Cons-Etiquette.docx\" target=\"_self\">More Visitor Tips <i class=\"fa-solid fa-circle-chevron-right\"><\/i><\/a>\n\n\n\n<p>The large tropical greenhouse, opened in 2019, includes 103 vascular plant families. Students began a catalog of ethnobotanically important plants in the conservatory. Please enjoy learning about the wide array of trees, edible plants, vines and aquatic plants featured on this page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Support the Conservatory<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can make a difference in support of our Tropical Conservatory. Just visit the Alumni Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/give.uwsp.edu\/give-now\">giving page<\/a> and select College of Letters and Science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Questions about Conservatory use? Call 715-346-2159.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:slyon@uwsp.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stephanie Lyon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assistant Professor of Biology Ph.D.<br>Curator of Vascular Plants<br>Office: CBB 212<br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a living classroom inside the Haeni Chemistry Biology Building. The UWSP Tropical Conservatory is home to 300 different species and cultivars from Central and South America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific islands. The space is open to campus and the community. Summer hours are Monday- Friday from 7:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. During the academic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-641","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/college-of-letters-and-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/college-of-letters-and-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/college-of-letters-and-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/college-of-letters-and-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/college-of-letters-and-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/college-of-letters-and-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/college-of-letters-and-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/641\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/college-of-letters-and-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}