Celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March by joining a free guided walk. Learn about some of the pioneering female researchers, scientists, artists and writers who contributed to the study of plants. See some of the plants that they collected, wrote about or painted. Meet at the clock near the bridge. No booking required for […]
Celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March by joining a free guided walk. Learn about some of the pioneering female researchers, scientists, artists and writers who contributed to the study of plants. See some of the plants that they collected, wrote about or painted. Meet at the clock near the bridge. No booking required for […]
Heidi, of the Australian National Herbarium, will talk about her recent fieldwork on Norfolk Island (alongside Mark Clements), from retracing the steps of Bauer to find the critically endangered Adelopetalum apetalum to literally falling over orchids on well-worn walking tracks! Abstract Norfolk Island has high orchid species richness and endemism, relative to other oceanic islands. […]
Wayne, of Bluefrog Truffles, will talk about his experience and understanding of the cultivation of truffles in the Canberra Region, and his involvement in the Australian Truffle Industry. Photos: (top) Wayne finds truffle and dog ready to hunt truffles 2023-03-05 (below) Truffle to be proud of 2023-03-05. (Photographer: Paul Henderson-Kelly). Abstract Truffles have been […]
The presentation by Peter, from the National Research Collections Australia, will focus on digitisation projects and added value that these efforts can bring to biological specimen collections for use in research from about 15 million specimens. Abstract CSIRO’s biological collections are aiming to significantly accelerate the creation of digital assets for use in research from […]
Thank you to our wonderful weeding work party last month who removed more than 1000 weeds, particularly Billardiera heterophylla and B. fusiformis (WA Bluebell, Sollya) and Passiflora cinnabarina (Red Passionflower) as well as 28 other species of weeds. Our next weeding work party is planning to remove more of these weeds part way up Black […]