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China: Mother of All Gardens

Thursday, 29th March 2007


China; The Mother of all Gardens
Presented to Friends of the Conservatory 3/22/07

Slide List


1-2. Maps of Asia
3. Ernest Wilson ( ‘Chinese’ Wilson )
4. Magnolia wilsonii
5. Map of Yunnan
6.  Dali, Yunnan Province, the three Pagodas
7. Cang Shan
8. Jean Pere Delavay
9-10. Paeonia delavayi
11.  Porter wearing coat of Trachycarpus fiber
12. Polygonatum cirrhifolium
13-14. Acer pectinatum subsp. forrestii
15-16. Holboellia grandiflora
17-18. Helwingia japonica
19. Helwingia sp. nova
20. Paris luquanensis
21. Yulong Shan ( Snow Dragon Mountains, Lichang )
22. Joseph Rock
23-24. Paeonia rockii
25. Tibetan farmscape
26-28. Euphorbia nematacypha
29-30. Gentiana sino-ornata
31. Rheum alexandre ( rhubarb )
32. Rheum nobile
33-34. Accommodations (Stay Put Up)
35. Daylily Soup
36. Stirfried Lily bulb ( Lilium lancifolium )
37. Meli Xue Shan ( Shangri La )
38. Village scene, Weixi
39. Roads of NW Yunnan
40-41. Medicinal Plants (Sausaurea sp. )
42-43. Rodgersia pinnata
44-45.  Map and introduction to Sichuan Province
46. Pere Armand David
47. Pinus armandii
48-49.  Davidia involucrate
50-51. Great Panda
52. Wolong Landscape
53.Corydalis flexuosa
54-55. Dichroa febrifuga
56-59. Edgeworthia chrysantha
60-61. Cardiocrinum giganteum var. giganteum
62. Cardiocrinum giganteum var. yunnanense
63. Emei Shan ( one of four sacred mountains )
64. Pilgrims Path
65. Clematis repens
66-67. Hydrangea aspera subsp. strigosa ‘Elegant Sound Pavillon’
68-69. Epimedium acuminatum and for sale as dried rhizomes
70. Podophyllum delavayi
71. Actinidia pilosula
72. Actinidia kolomikta
73. Actinida polygama
74-75. Taiwan
76. Schefflera taiwaniana
77-78. Arisaema taiwanense
79. Conclusion.  

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