[BSW] October 4 meeting + Milkweed + Water Chestnuts

[Kathy BILTON]

The speaker for our next meeting on Tuesday, October 4 at 7pm will be
Juan Diego Palacio-Mejía, Director of the Tibaitatá Research Center at
Colombian Corporation of Agricultural Research). His topic will be
"Functional genomics of Panicum and recent botanical observations in
Mexico" (or something similar.)

The Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86418795565?pwd=cTZwL3dqYmRxRXBFalExcHlZQ2dDdz09
ID 864 1879 5565   PC  669356

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At the meeting last night, Marion showed images from her video for
VNPS about milkweed and also recommended the John Clayton Herbarium
which is available online on website of The Natural History Museum in
London.

Marions's Milkweed Presentation on Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/8250556/video/728146372

John Clayton Herbarium
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/collections/botany-collections/historical-botanical-collections/john-clayton-herbarium.html

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News from Nancy Rybicki:

The invasive aquatic plant, water chestnut (two-horned Trapa) is now
in Maryland and southern Virginia.

Update:

USGS NAS web site shows the two-horned Trapa distribution
https://nas.er.usgs.gov/viewer/omap.aspx?id=f3a647f4-6906-4928-b5b4-1421cd95a211

Links to Trapa news articles in 2022

8/6/22
https://www.greenbeltnewsreview.com/news-stories/invasive-water-chestnut-found-in-maryland-at-greenbelt-lake/

8/10/22,
https://www.bayjournal.com/news/wildlife_habitat/invasive-water-chestnut-frustrates-containment-efforts-in-virginia/article_9bdd288e-17f6-11ed-87f9-6b31b7328c85.html