MoBOT opening new house for expansive desert plant collection [Video]

ST. LOUIS — The Missouri Botanical Garden has a collection of cacti and succulents that dates back more than a century, but it hasn’t been on public display in its full glory since 1994. On Friday, that changes with the opening of the new Shoenberg Arid House.

According to a press release from MoBOT, the Arid House will show off their collection that dates back more than 150 years and includes about 1,500 types of cacti, succulents and other desert plants.

“The opening of the Shoenberg Arid House at the Missouri Botanical Garden is an important milestone in the Garden’s history,” Garden President and Director Peter Wyse Jackson said in a press release. “While the Garden has maintained a rich and important collection of desert and arid …