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The Plant Collections Network (PCN) (formerly the North American Plant Collections Consortium) is a group of North American botanical gardens and arboreta that aims to improve the continent's living plant collections, and enhance the availability of plant germplasm.[1] The consortium is administered by the American Public Gardens Association from Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the USDA- Agricultural Research Service.

According to the consortium's web site, it has three strategic goals:

  • Increase the number of PCN Collections to represent the major genera of ornamental plants found in American Public Gardens Association member gardens;
  • Facilitate coordination of PCN plant collections; and
  • Raise professional plant curation standards in public gardens.

The network is intended to represent woody and herbaceous ornamentals, both native and exotic. The main objective for each consortium member is to assemble the most comprehensive possible group of plants within a particular taxon, collecting plants that are both taxonomically and genetically from different populations throughout the natural range of the plants. As of March 2016, network members and their collections included:

  • Ganna Walska Lotusland
    • Cycads; 170 taxa, including 9 hybrids, 16 undescribed taxa

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  1. ^ "About the Plant Collections Network | American Public Gardens Association". publicgardens.org. Retrieved 2016-03-13.
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