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Cycad Day 2012
The Cycad
Society (TCS) has only one board meeting each year, and it is always
scheduled in a different part of the country (or occasionally a different
country). The 2012 board meeting was held on Friday, August 3, at
the San Diego Botanic Garden (SDBG) in San Diego, CA. Each year TCS also
hosts a special "Cycad Day" event on the Saturday following the board
meeting, and Cycad Day 2012
was on Saturday, August 4, also at SDBG.
Mini
Cycad Symposium
The day began with the following educational presentations:
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Jeff Chemnick: "The Cycads of Mexico Rarely Seen in Habitat"
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Paul Sternberg: Part 1: "An Encounter with Poachers in Habitat"; Part
2: "Rapid Changes in the Memorial Cycad specimen of Encephalartos
middelburgensis"
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Alberto Taylor: "The long trek to Zamia lindleyi (1851-2012)"
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W. Walton Wright: "Cycads & Cycadeoids: The 'Cycads': What Are We Talking
About?"
Walt has one of the largest, if not the largest,
petrified wood collections in the world. He has come to study paleobotany
as a botanist, looking at the fossil plants from the same perspective he
would today’s living plants, but framing that view in the context of
geologic time, plate tectonics, adaptation, survival, and extinction. The
specimens on display are but a small sample of the material to be found
around the world. What are the specimens? What is their structure? How are
they related? Where are they from? Walt has traveled the world looking at
collections and collecting. Come along for a venture through moments in
time past.
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Karen Sternberg: "South African Cycads - 'the tragedy of cycads in the
wild is that they are free for the taking'. Is it too late to save them?"
We then had lunch followed by
an auction led by Mr. Jeff Chemnick.
Auction
Each year, Cycad Day represents an important opportunity
for TCS to increase membership and to raise money for worthy cycad
research and conservation grants. One of the ways we generate funding for
projects is through our annual auctions.
Cycad Species
Below is a brief list of species that were available
at the Cycad Day 2012 auction.
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Dioon edule 'Jacala'
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Dioon mejiae
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Dioon spinulosum
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Encephalartos horridus
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Encephalartos horridus 'Dwarf'
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Encephalartos transvenosus
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- Encephalartos transvenosus X
woodii
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Lepidozamia peroffskyana
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Macrozamia communis
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Zamia furfuracea
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Zamia inermis
- Zamia variegata
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Cycad
Prints
We
also had five incredible cycad prints donated by world-famous cycad artist and
author, Douglas Goode. The prints are shown below:
Cycad
Books
Loran Whitelock attended the Cycad Day event and graciously offered
to individually sign and dedicate a copy of his book The Cycads to
the highest bidder in the auction.
T-shirts
TCS
got permission to use the logo of the now-defunct
Fossil
Cycad
National Monument on our Cycad Day t-shirts (see below).
Shirts were $20 each at the event.
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