my plants at the backgroundWednesday, 17 March 2010
Kins from Townsville Botanic Gardens called me early this morning. We arrangeg to meet in DB024 Glass House at James Cook University Campus. I was waiting for him in a bus stop wondering he did not appear as I was expecting an open cab labelled 'Townsville City Townsville' crossing, finally he called me saying he was lost. He was waiting for me in front of St Marks College which was about 10 minutes walking to get there (a.k.a. kaki terpincang-pincang lantaran lecet akibat trying to dress up properly for the green house snap activities with my sport shoes but forgetting my socks.. oh well..). I walked, I left my car in her peaceful parking spot (I mean I would not give up my parking spot to others..!).
I returned the plants (1-2 year old young plants/seedlings) after I finished my seedling growth experiments in the glass house: Arenga australasica (collected from Palmetum in 2007), Calamus australis and Calamus moti (collected from Paluma and Tam O'Shanter National Park Mission Beach in 2007),
Hydriastele wendlandiana and Licuala ramsayi (collected from Tam O'Shanter National Park Mission Beach in 2007). It's the procedures here that students who do research using living plants need to returned their research materials to the Authority.
We had a bit chat about how the botanical gardens doing. A type of beetles attacked some of their unhealthy palm collection in Palmetum. They are seeking the replacements transferred from a botanic garden in Brisbane. For the plants I just returned, he will manage them by improving their performance in nursery before transferring to the 3 botanic gardens in Townsville: Palmetum, Queens Park ang Anderson Park. I passed Dee's messages (work in Anderson Park) that he wants Hydriastele wendlandiana for Anderson Park.
S9(1)(A) Nature Conservation (Administration) Regulation 2006: Take, Use, Keep or Interfere with Cultural or Natural Resources (Scientific Purpose)
"..... Seeds and grown specimens must be kept at the James Cook University and donated to Townsville City Council. ..."
