UCF Arboretum

Volunteer

The UCF Arboretum offers a variety of volunteer opportunities. Volunteers can volunteer individually or as group to help in the community garden, assist with horticultural work in campus landscapes, or help in campus natural lands. Come out and get your feet wet, your hands dirty, and your knowledge expanded, as you learn more about gardening, landscaping, or natural lands management!

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Bee Campus USA

The Arboretum is now a part of the Bee Campus USA program! Our student leaders aim to sustain and enhance pollinator populations and raise awareness about them. Check it out!

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Tours

Want to know more about our natural lands? Schedule a tour to walk through the trails and learning about the Arboretum!

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Our mission: to cultivate, celebrate, communicate the value of plants, ecosystems and biodiversity to human wellbeing!

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Virtual Arboretum Featured at Global Film, Data Visualization Conference

A virtual corner of UCF’s campus was demonstrated alongside some of the biggest names in the computer graphics industry at the ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Electronic…

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Alumna Takes On Role as First Orlando Beekeeper

Orlando’s first official beekeeper is staying busy as a — well you know — applying the knowledge she acquired as a College of Sciences graduate.…

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Controlled Arboretum Burns Lead to Discovery of new Grass Species

A new grass species was discovered in the UCF Arboretum thanks to regular controlled burns that mimic nature’s wildfire season. Sporobolus osceolensis is a type…

Upcoming Events

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Nov 15 6:00 pm

Kent Speaker Series Presents: Angel’s Trumpet: Ethnohistorical and Modern Accounts of Sacred Plant Use in Ecuador

Please join us for our Fall 2024 Kent Family Speaker Series guest lecture! Dr. Rachel Corr from Florida Atlantic University will be presenting on the “Angel’s Trumpet: Ethnohistorical and Modern Accounts of Sacred Plant Use in Ecuador”.The event will be…

Looking Ahead

Nov 8 1:00 pm

Travel Abroad Info Session

Nov 11 8:00 am

Project FOCUS Weekly Personalized Sessions Summer/Fall 2024

Nov 14 11:30 am

Giving and Getting Emotional Support

Nov 14 12:00 pm

FreshU Kitchen Cooking Class - by RSVP only