Dylan Hannon

Dylan Hannon
Curator, Conservatory & Tropical Collections
Department: Botanical, Collections, Conservation, & Research
626-405-3561

Dylan develops and maintains a collection of diverse tropical plants in the Huntington's Rose Hills Conservatory for Botanical Science and its associated greenhouses. He acts as a liaison to botanical gardens, botanical science professionals, and nursery specialists. Dylan has explored various countries in the tropics to facilitate naturalistic Conservatory exhibits and help build The Huntington's tropical plant collections. He actively exchanges living material with other prestigious national botanical institutions. In addition to hands-on stewardship, Dylan's work with the Tropical Collections is focused principally on the conservation of rare cultivated taxa via propagation and distribution.

Publications, Research, Presentations, and Workshops

Tanaka, Noriyuki, D. P. Hannon and N. Vislobokov. 2018. Tupistra siphonantha (Asparagaceae), a new Laotian species with a simple pistil. Kew Bulletin 72 (4).

Propagating, Growing and Maintaining an Aroid Collection. Aroid Collections and Conservation Workshop. Huntington Botanical Gardens, & CalPoly San Luis Obispo. September, 2018.

Hannon, Dylan P. 2014. Species Profile: Philodendron patriciae Croat (Araceae). Aroideana 37: 105-110.

Conserving Cultivated Plants. Keynote Lecture, Conservation Horticulture Workshop: Tools for Plant Conservation in a Changing World. University of Minnesota. 21 October, 2017.

The Give and Take of Plant Collecting. Huntington Frontiers. Fall/Winter, 2007.

Verso

Posted on Nov. 9, 2015
With LOOK>>, we venture into our wide-ranging collections and bring out a single object to explore in a short video. For this installment, we look at a Hydnophytum specimen, one of the ant…
Posted on Sep. 12, 2014
Dylan Hannon oversees The Huntington's tropical collections, which include thousands of orchids. Here, he inspects Zygonisia Cynosure 'Blue Birds' in one of the greenhouses. Photo by Lisa Blackburn…
Posted on Aug. 22, 2014
This shot from earlier today shows the relative size of the plant. The newest flowering of the titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum, or "Corpse Flower") at The Huntington has generated good questions…
Posted on Jan. 17, 2013
A Phragmipedium kovachiibloom at The Huntington. In 2002, a roadside orchid stand in the Peruvian countryside was the opening scene of one of the most infamous chapters in the history of…
Posted on Aug. 8, 2012
Dr. Thomas B. Croat examines an herbarium specimen of a new Ecuadorean Philodendron from The Huntington's tropical collections. This specimen will be an isotype, a permanent scientific reference…