A contemporary review in Plant Physiology characterized it as "well recommended by qualified botanists" and calling it "richly illustrated" and "quite complete" [4] After the war ended, the Mortons were invited to work at the Subtropical Experimental Station in Homestead, Florida in association with George Ruehle and Dr. Bruce Ledin.
[2] Their work came to the attention of the president of the University of Miami, Bowman Foster Ashe, who offered them positions as professors at the Coral Gables campus.
[5] Julia Morton along with her husband Kendal were among the founders of the original Rare Fruit Council, which was founded on March 11, 1955, in Miami.
[6] President Ashe approved setting up the Collectanea at the new campus, and with the aid of professor Taylor Alexander, the files were installed in a new, more spacious location, and students employed to select and organize new material.
This allowed the Collectanea to be expanded, and visiting scholars had room to work and free access to the material.
[2] By 1996 the Collectanea had grown to 500 file drawers and included approximately 15,000 species, but remained a manually collated and indexed resource.
[2] Kendal Morton died in 1964, according to her book 500 Plants of South Florida 1974, but Julia continued their research and field work.
[7] Morton also conducted surveys of cashew and other edible nut plantations in Venezuela, Colombia and Peru.