An inventory of Korean living collections in the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, USA

Abstract

,1986; Aiello, 2009).In North America, the Arnold Arboretum of HarvardUniversity is one of the oldest public arboreta and is locat-ed in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston, Massachusetts,U.S.A. (42�19′N, 71�05′W). The 107 ha arboretum is aunique blend of research institution and public park, be-cause it was founded as a public-private partnership bet-ween the City of Boston and Harvard University (Presi-dent and Fellows of Harvard College, 2012). After beingfounded in 1872, domestic and international woody plantexploration and the subsequent evaluation of plant acqui-sitions have represented important missions of the ArnoldArboretum(Wyman, 1956; President and Fellows of Har-vard College, 2012). Thus, the Arnold Arboretum hassupported botanical exploration programs to collect germ-plasm in the floristically rich regions of Eastern Asia andNorth America since the early 1900s(Sax, 1949; Spong-berg and Weaver, 1978; Howard, 1980a; 1980b; Presi-dent and Fellows of Harvard College, 2012).In particular, early arboretum staff members of theArnold Arboretum participated in several collection expe-ditions to South Korea(Wilson, 1919; Sax, 1949; Spong-berg, 1978; Spongberg and Weaver, 1978; Kim