Boston Flora

Tag: Plant Defenses

  • Wednesday, March 13, 9:30 am – Sugar, Sex and Poison: Shocking Plant Secrets Caught on Camera

    Engaging speaker, horticulturist, author, and photographer Bill Cullina will entertain The Lexington Garden Club, and the public, again on Wednesday, March 13, beginning at 9:30 am at the National Heritage Museum, 33 Marrett Road in Lexington. This time the Executive Director of Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens will give us a close-up view of the many clever and beautiful ways plants defend themselves and attract animals, insects and other partners in the work of pollination, seed dispersal, and nutrient acquisition. We’ll also have an opportunity to purchase Bill’s books before and after his talk.  Free.

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  • Tuesday, March 13, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Pretty and Poisonous: The Role of Plant Defenses in Flowers

    Lynn Adler, Associate Professor of Entomology at UMass Amherst, will be the featured speaker on Tuesday, March 13 at the Cambridge Entomological Club.  She will present a lecture entitled Pretty and Poisonous: The Role of Plant Defenses in Flowers.  CEC meetings are held the second Tuesday of the month from October through May. The evening schedule typically includes an informal dinner (6:15 to 7:15 PM) followed by our formal meeting (7:30 – 9:00 PM) in MCZ 101, 26 Oxford Street, Harvard University. The latter begins with club business and is followed by a 50 minute entomology related presentation. Membership is open to amateur and professional entomologists.  For more information, email CEC President Jessica Walden-Gray at jessisoutside@gmail.com.