botanical news of 2008?

From: Steve Marak <samarak at gizmoworks.com> on 2009.01.12 at 20:50:07(18899) Aroiders, Apologies for the off-topic post. I know the diverse botanical and horticultural interests of this group and I can't think of a better one to help. I'm looking for interesting botanical news from 2008 - anything from remarkable new plants that were discovered (such as Tahina spectabilis), interesting taxonomic changes (such as the proposal to sink Sophronitis into Cattleya), events in horticulture (the demise of Heronswood) etc. There were a lot of stories, but many were just reported widely in 2008, with the work being done earlier - in some case much earlier (i.e., 2000 year-old Judean date palm [Phoenix dactylifera] seeds germinating, which occurred in 2005 but was widely reported in 2008). Pointers to stories or sources would be appreciated. Reply just to me, please, unless you think it's of general interest to the list - which, given those diverse interests, covers a lot of territory ... Thanks in advance, Steve (desperately searching for copy) -- Steve Marak +More -- samarak@gizmoworks.com _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

From: Susan B <honeybunny442 at yahoo.com> on 2009.01.13 at 03:05:40(18905) I'm not sure if this is what you were looking for, but I came across it today and thought it was interesting, beautiful plants. http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/node/97796 Susan HTML +More --- On Mon, 1/12/09, Steve Marak wrote: From: Steve Marak Subject: [Aroid-l] Off-topic: botanical news of 2008? To: "Aroid list" Date: Monday, January 12, 2009, 3:50 PM Aroiders, Apologies for the off-topic post. I know the diverse botanical and horticultural interests of this group and I can't think of a better one to help. I'm looking for interesting botanical news from 2008 - anything from remarkable new plants that were discovered (such as Tahina spectabilis), interesting taxonomic changes (such as the proposal to sink Sophronitis into Cattleya), events in horticulture (the demise of Heronswood) etc. There were a lot of stories, but many were just reported widely in 2008, with the work being done earlier - in some case much earlier (i.e., 2000 year-old Judean date palm [Phoenix dactylifera] seeds germinating, which occurred in 2005 but was widely reported in 2008). Pointers to stories or sources would be appreciated. Reply just to me, please, unless you think it's of general interest to the list - which, given those diverse interests, covers a lot of territory ... Thanks in advance, Steve (desperately searching for copy) -- Steve Marak -- samarak@gizmoworks.com _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l --0-733516655-1231815940=:948----==============31873196805774431=

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