Science on the SPOT: Restoring San Francisco's Lost Manzanita
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on Jan 19, 2011 by Gabriela Quirós, Producer
for QUEST Northern CaliforniaTopics: Biology, Environment
Science Education Collections: HS Biology
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Restoring San Francisco’s Lost Manzanita Educator Guide ( pdf ) A resource for using QUEST video in the classroom.
With their reddish bark and bell-shaped flowers, manzanitas are among California's iconic plants, adapted to the state's many ecosystems. One of the two manzanitas that grew exclusively in San Francisco's foggy climate, the Franciscana, was thought to have gone extinct in the wild until it was rediscovered in 2009. QUEST explores how the San Francisco Botanical Garden is toiling to give one of the city's rarest native plants a second chance.
Tags: Botanical, franciscana, kqed, manzanita, pbs, presidio, QUESTAdditional Links
- San Francisco Botanical Garden
- University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley
- Regional Parks Botanic Garden in Berkeley's Tilden Park
- Presidio Trust
- Producer's Notes: Restoring San Francisco's Lost Manzanita
