From kathy at fred.net Tue Jul 13 13:55:26 2021 From: kathy at fred.net (KATHY BILTON) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 14:55:26 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [BSW] Misc. Things Botanical Message-ID: Tuesday, July 20 - 5-6pm - NYBG Doctoral Defense: Conservation, Comparative Genomics, and Species Delimitation of the Reindeer Lichens https://www.nybg.org/event/nybg-doctoral-defense-conservation-comparative-genomics-and-species-delimitation-of-the-reindeer-lichens/ ---------------------------------------------- Ditching grass could help your backyard thrive https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2021/06/30/climate-friendly-backyard/ ---------------------------------------------- New Plant Invaders of Mid?Atlantic Natural Areas - Orders Due August 13, 2021 (6th Edition) Flier: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Di9EvzVTDkV76OcgJ2aNpcbcypD-VR4R/view?usp=sharing Order Form: https://forms.gle/xLUo9Ph5jPB5ubAY8 ---------------------------------------------- Meet the Philly kid who helped solve the strange case of a missing bee and a rare Pa. plant https://www.inquirer.com/science/missing-bee-heuchera-alba-plant-bucknell-university-discovery-20210712.html ---------------------------------------------- Appeal to identify 'La Botaniste' who slipped from history https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57601841 ----------------------------------------------- If you missed the July 1 VNPS meeting.... Marion summarized the major changes in the 2020 update of the Flora of Virginia App. She is chair of the Foundation of the Flora of Virginia Project (FFVP) which has developed seven Education Modules to help you understand and use the Flora of Virginia in print and digital forms. The Education Module videos will be available soon on the VNPS and Flora of Virginia websites. Marion also talked about changes to the FFVP board of directors. After twenty years and serving on both of the boards of directors and currently as vice president, Marion is stepping down from the board and is very excited about the new board?s makeup. Watch the recording on Vimeo now at https://vimeo.com/570644609. ----------------------------------------------- Recent program of Arkansas Native Plant Society "Parasitic Native Plants of Arkansas with Adam Schneider" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3ATGvnjKpY Arkansas Native Plant Society YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEIlEFuRaz0HbIgXxwRIHvw ----------------------------------------------- A couple of stories about what's said to be the oldest tree in Paris: What we can learn from Paris's oldest tree https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/what-we-can-learn-fr%0Aom-paris-oldest-tree-20210713?s=03 (One needs to sign in or sign up) The Oldest Tree in Paris ? The Robinia Tree of Square Ren? Viviani https://thetreeographer.com/2018/04/06/oldest-tree-in-paris-robinia-of-square-rene-viviani/ ------------------------------------------------ Mystery Plant Identified >From the last email: "I came across a description of a plant in a little book called "Scratching the Woodchuck: Nature on an Amish Farm. The farm is located in Ohio, about 70 miles south of Cleveland. https://drive.google.com/file/d/148lmA6HbGNbOqw6OCM526OtRysfpCF73/view?usp=sharing" The identity of the mystery plant has since been unearthed. After asking some people I thought might know but who did not, I decided to post the description in a Plant ID group on Facebook. There were a couple of suggested answers but then I saw one which sounded like it must be the correct one. A woman from PA said: "I think I tracked it down in the Flower Family Album from 1999... (Google Books search) It says that Spider Flower (cleome) is also called the Electric Light Plant, and dots Nebraska and Colorado with thousands of blooms. It's an annual so it fits!" I decided to try my own search in Google books and saw not only the result she mentioned but one in another book, "Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants, with Scientific Names Index. Volume I: CommonNames" ... - Page 116 by Elaine Nowick ? 2014 ...and which I found to be available as a download: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/27/ From kathy at fred.net Fri Jul 23 14:33:44 2021 From: kathy at fred.net (KATHY BILTON) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:33:44 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [BSW] =?iso-8859-15?q?Botanical_M=E8lange?= Message-ID: The next BSW meeting will be at 7pm on Tuesday, September 7. As has been the custom in September, it will be Members' Night. So start thinking now if you have a short topic (5-10 minutes) you would like to present. ----------------------------------------- Tuesday, July 27 at 7:30pm MNPS Monthly Program National Park Forests in the Eastern US: Ecological Value and Natural Resource Challenges Speaker: Dr. Liz Matthews, Ecologist, National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Program Register here: https://mdflora.org/event-4349614 ----------------------------------------- Thursday, July 29 at 7:30pm Where have all the mammals gone? with Joel Cohen Organized By: MD Natural Places Committee https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=7013q000002FBKAAA4 ----------------------------------------- Saturday and Sunday, September 25-26 - MNPS Annual Conference Rare Plants and Communities of the Baltimore-Washington Corridor https://mdflora.org/event-4357179 ----------------------------------------- Rare wild orchids stolen from Draycote Meadows https://www.stratford-herald.com/news/rare-wild-orchids-stolen-9202205/ ----------------------------------------- The Truth Behind the Amazon Mystery Seeds https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/07/unsolicited-seeds-china-brushing/619417/ ----------------------------------------- MNPS Program: Human Impacts On Native Plants & Insects: Restoring Biodiversity with Dr. Sara Via from 06/29/2021 is available at https://youtu.be/x4PdgS_yzw4 ------------------------------------------ New insight on the reproductive evolution of land plants https://phys.org/news/2021-07-insight-reproductive-evolution.html ------------------------------------------ Engineered plants' roots turn red when helpful fungi show up https://newatlas.com/science/genetically-engineered-plants-red-roots-fungi/ ------------------------------------------ Plant poachers threaten California?s biodiversity https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/07/plant-poachers-threaten-californias-biodiversity/ ------------------------------------------ Here's a picture of a Goldenseal plant with a fruit taken on the Antietam Battlefield a couple of days ago. I mentioned it to a friend in Richmond who was surprised I had seen it given its known locations in Virginia which show it from none of the northern counties. Pic of plant: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sznu7de2Dw6S7hoKqoBzgsbcLf4-abTt/view?usp=sharing Map in Virginia Atlas: http://www.vaplantatlas.org/index.php?do=plant&plant=2856&search=Search Map from Plants.USDA: https://plants.usda.gov/home/plantProfile?symbol=HYCA From kathy at fred.net Thu Jul 29 19:31:39 2021 From: kathy at fred.net (KATHY BILTON) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 20:31:39 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [BSW] Please Help! We need people looking for these pests! Message-ID: Via Jil. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Faith Campbell Date: Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 4:52 PM Subject: Please Help! We need people looking for these pests! ? If you are in the woods ? be on the lookout for symptoms of tree-killing pests!? New and spreading invaders in the Mid-Atlantic region: 1.?Beech Leaf Disease. Recently detected in Prince William Forest Park in Prince William County, Virginia and previously detected in northern West Virginia.? Information on symptoms and how to report it are available at: https://www.clevelandmetroparks.com/getmedia/43ff63dc-c2d4-421f-97e5-00d9d7e74425/2020NR02_Tree-Health-Survey-User-Manual.pdf.ashx 2.?Spotted Lanternfly. Present in Prince William County (see map at https://nysipm.cornell.edu/environment/invasive-species-exotic-pests/spotted-lanternfly/)? as well as in the apple-producing counties of the northern Shenandoah Valley (Virginia and West Virginia) and threatening the growing wine region of Loudoun County. Information on symptoms and how to report it:?https://www.vdacs.virginia.gov/plant-industry-services.shtml [Scroll down below section on unsolicited seeds] 3. Laurel Wilt Disease. Right on the edge of the Mid-Atlantic region is?laurel wilt disease on sassafras. This insect/pathogen complex has killed 90% of redbay in the southeast; it is now spreading on sassafras. It has been detected in Sullivan County, Tennessee (across border from Lee, Scott, or Washington counties, Virginia). It is also present in northern Kentucky and Johnson and Wayne counties in North Carolina. For symptoms on sassafras, go to https://forestry.ca.uky.edu/sites/forestry.ca.uky.edu/files/forfs20-01laurel_wilt_factsheet.pdf If you find suspicious trees, report them to Virginia Department of Forestry at https://dof.virginia.gov/ 4. Elm Zigzag Fly. A pest already introduced to Virginia is the elm zigzag sawfly,?Aproceros leucopoda. The larvae were collected from?Chinese elm, but elm zigzag sawfly is also known to feed on American elm, English elm, Siberia elm and several other elm species. The insect has previously been known to be present in Canada. See the announcement (with helpful pictures of symptoms) at https://www.growertalks.com/Newsletters/View/?article=3500 This Information is provided by Faith Campbell, phytodoer at aol.com; more information on tree-killing pests is posted at http://www.cisp.us From kathy at fred.net Sat Jul 31 11:42:01 2021 From: kathy at fred.net (KATHY BILTON) Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 12:42:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [BSW] Mattawoman Creek - Poaching Succulents - Fairy Lanterns - More... Message-ID: The Plant Press - July-September 2021 - Vol. 24, No. 3 https://nmnh.typepad.com/files/vol24no3.pdf http://nmnh.typepad.com/the_plant_press/ --------------------------------------------------------------- Recordings from May's Smithsonian Botanical Symposium https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQmxS2U3B6Kbo8GKodMg6FB6K5EHaBaVI --------------------------------------------------------------- Development fight erupts over protected Potomac tributary https://www.bayjournal.com/news/fisheries/development-fight-erupts-over-protected-potomac-tributary/article_e183545c-c483-11eb-86aa-8b9185e739cd.html --------------------------------------------------------------- In South Africa, Poachers Now Traffic in Tiny Succulent Plants https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/31/world/africa/south-africa-poachers-tiny-succulent-plants.html --------------------------------------------------------------- Enchantingly Strange 'Fairy Lanterns' Discovered Growing in a Malaysian Rainforest https://www.sciencealert.com/enchantingly-strange-fairy-lanterns-discovered -growing-in-a-malaysian-rainforest -------------------------------------------------------------- Five New Species of Flowering Plants Discovered in Bolivia ?Many plant species have not been identified and classified, especially in the tropics,? said Dr. Rosemary Clegg, a botanist at the University of Exeter and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ?If you don?t know what a species is, you can?t conserve it.? http://www.sci-news.com/biology/five-new-jacquemontia-species-bolivia-09893.html --------------------------------------------------------------- A Plant That ?Cannot Die? Reveals Its Genetic Secrets https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/31/science/plant-leaves-welwitschia.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24528-4 --------------------------------------------------------------- Senegalese plant circular gardens in Green Wall defence https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/7/29/senegalese-plant-circular-gardens-in-green-wall-defence --------------------------------------------------------------- Saving one of Japan's oldest green tea towns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5A21lrIEBI --------------------------------------------------------------- This Bay Area carnivorous plant seller left his job in tech for predatory plants https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/Bay-Area-man-leaves-tech-to-hawk-carnivorous-16346132.php --------------------------------------------------------------- How to Plant a Street Tree https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/magazine/plant-street-tree.html --------------------------------------------------------------- The latest Marilandica is now available to all, with tributes to Cris Fleming and articles by Jil Swearingen and Rod Simmons. https://mdflora.org/members/marilandica.html