About

Jody Haynes has been a cycad enthusiast and researcher for neaarly 30 years. He was the cycad biologist for a major botanical garden in the mid-2000s and is currently a research associate at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami, FL. He has studied cycads in Honduras, Panama, and Mexico; has described seven new species in three countries; and has authored more than 100 scientific, extension, and popular articles. His fondest memories, and perhaps most lasting legacy involving cycads is, along with Dr. Mark Bonta, the reinvigoration of local (and national) respect of, and protection for, Dioon mejiae (teosinte) in Honduras.