Tues. June 7, 2022
Speaker: Ron Long
Topic: Chasing Wild Orchids and other Botanical Adventures in Western Australia (links to YouTube recording of Zoom presentation)
Poster by Geof Hacker. See previous posters at DNS Posters Archive
Western Australia is an enormous and diverse area with a diverse flora to match. The ancient soils and millennia of stable climate have allowed evolution to run wild. Today many genera of plants contain hundreds of species.
The many hundreds of Orchids are perhaps the best known of the plants, but other groups that are less familiar are equally of great interest. In addition to photographs of the plants, this talk includes details of pollination strategies that are hard to believe.
Ron Long was the sciences photographer at Simon Fraser University for 36 years, and as a result has a great deal of biology in his background. Ron became interested in native plants in the early 1970’s, and has photographed approximately half of the flowering plants in BC (1000 sp). The interest in native plants led directly to his efforts to preserve the flora of Pink Mountain.
Now retired, he travels to nature hotspots around the world. Some of these trips have taken him to Southern Africa X6, South America X8, Western Australia, and numerous trips through the Western US and Canada.
Ron is past president of the Native Plant Society and coordinates the annual photography competition for Nature Vancouver.
Website: http://www.pinkmountain.ca/home/ron-long
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