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| Event title | Date | Details |
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| Bush tucker walk - Saturday morning | Saturday, 9 March 2019 - 11:00am to Sunday, 10 March 2019 - 11:45am |
The regular guided walk this morning (9th March) will feature bush tucker plants. |
| Luminous Botanicus IV: shade of trees | Friday, 8 March 2019 - 7:30pm to Saturday, 9 March 2019 - 10:45pm |
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| Matthew Higgins 'The Declined, the Gifted and the Desired: Four Canberra Rivers' | Thursday, 7 March 2019 - 12:30pm |
Matthew Higgins is an historian, writer, speaker, photographer and citizen scientist, who has worked for many of our national cultural institutions. He will present natural and historical information about four rivers near Canberra, and detail some of his experiences on them. |
| ANBG Friends Plant Science Group Technical Talk | Monday, 4 March 2019 - 10:30am |
Brendan Lepschi, will give a “State of the Nation Update” as it were. He is Curator of the Australian National Herbarium (a collection of 1.4 million specimens covering Australia, Malesia and the SW Pacific) and is also involved in other projects involving plant nomenclature eg compilation and maintenance of the Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) and Australian Plant Census (APC). (Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalaya ecozone and Australasia ecozone.) |
| Luminous Botanicus IV: shade of trees | Saturday, 2 March 2019 - 7:30pm to Sunday, 3 March 2019 - 10:45pm |
As part of the 2019 Enlighten Festival, the ANBG is presenting Luminous Botanicus IV. After dark immerse yourself in the wonders of the Gardens on this illuminated self-guided walk from the Rainforest up to the Red Centre Garden. Delight in the diversity and beauty of our native plants, as well as our special visitors this year, one of our most famous animals, the koala. Enjoy food and music on the Eucalypt Lawn. Bookings available through Ticketek or Enlighten website. |
| Black Mountain Weeding Work Party | Saturday, 2 March 2019 - 8:30am to 11:30am |
We shall focus on removing non-local Sweet Pittosporum (Pittosporum undulatum) (perhaps not really so sweet as a weed!) and Yellow Pittosporum (P. revolutum) and other naturalised woody species in the peripheral areas of the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG). Meet: the ANBG Southern car park. After going in the main gate, turn sharp left, follow road around the perimeter up to the top level of that carpark. Look for banner or balloons near the pay-parking machine. |
| Luminous Botanicus IV: shade of trees | Friday, 1 March 2019 - 7:30pm to Saturday, 2 March 2019 - 10:45pm |
As part of the 2019 Enlighten Festival, the ANBG is presenting Luminous Botanicus IV. After dark immerse yourself in the wonders of the Gardens on this illuminated self-guided walk from the Rainforest up to the Red Centre Garden. Delight in the diversity and beauty of our native plants, as well as our special visitors this year, one of our most famous animals, the koala. Enjoy food and music on the Eucalypt Lawn. Bookings available through Ticketek or Enlighten website. |
| Heino Lepp ‘From agarikon to Agaricus’ | Thursday, 28 February 2019 - 12:30pm |
Heino, a Scientific Associate at the Australian National Herbarium, will talk about the modern genus of fungus Agaricus and demonstrate how different it was to the Greek fungal name agarikon, and how over 1700 years it became Agaricus. |
| ANBG Friends Photographic Group - February meeting | Friday, 22 February 2019 - 10:30am to Saturday, 23 February 2019 - 11:45am |
Our guest speaker will be Tim Leach (ANBG PG member). Look but Don’t Touch: Techniques and Opportunities for Summer and Winter Digital Macro Photography Tim will cover macro photography techniques he has developed over recent years and across a range of indoor and outdoor conditions, from normal summer ambient to sub-zero winter. |
| Dr Marcel Cardillo 'Australian Plant Biodiversity: Past, Present and Future’ | Thursday, 21 February 2019 - 12:30pm |
Marcel, from the ANU, will discuss how extracting DNA from plant tissues helps us reconstruct the evolutionary history of the Australian biota over tens of millions of years. He will explain why south- west Australia is a 'biodiversity hotspot’ and the increasingly important role that molecular phylogenetics plays with examples from research on Australian Proteaceae. |
