Fungi are known by their common names such as mold, mildew, yeast, and mushrooms

Some time ago, a Norwegian visitor who was also a butterfly lover confessed with teary eyes that he had never before seen a live Morpho helonor, the gorgeous common blue morpho butterfly. Habitual in the forest and always present in our butterfly vivarium, it landed on his shoulder. A moment he will never forget

Our Nora Benchimol Minev Orchid and Bromeliad House was thus named to pay tribute to the encouragement and kindliness shown by Ms. Nora, an orchid lover, during our efforts to recover and expand the orchid house at the Musa Botanical Garden