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M I S S OUR I B O T A N IC A L G A R D E N bulletinFall 2013 Vol. 101, No. 4 www.mobot.org As a Garden member, did you know: • You receive reduced pricing to special events? • You can enjoy evening walking hours on Tuesdays in the summer? • You receive free admission for two adults and all children ages 12 and under to the Shaw Nature Reserve and Sophia M. Sachs President’s Butterfly House? photo by Koraley Northen Comment • You receive free admission to the Children’s Garden all day Tuesdays? (Open April–October) Beyond the significance of biodiversity • Special Members’ Days entitle you to exclusive events and activities, conservation on a global scale, it’s important as well as free tram rides and discounts in the gift shop and café? to remember that many threatened plants are • You get free or reduced-price admission to nearly 270 botanical vital to people’s everyday lives—whether for gardens and arboreta in the U.S. and Canada? nutritional, medicinal, or spiritual purposes. These are only a few of the benefits. Visitwww.mobot.org/membership , The Garden’s research and education work email [email protected], or call (314) 577-5118 to learn more. contributes to the discovery and preservation of plants and, in many cases, the traditional knowledge associated with them. We’re proud Board of Trustees that our ethnobotanists are leaders in studying Officers Prof. Sir Peter R. Crane FRS Laure B. Hullverson W. Stephen Maritz Chair L. B. Eckelkamp, Jr. Maureen R. Jennings and preserving this important balance between Cheryl P. Morley Vice Chair M. Peter Fischer Ellen E. Jones plants and people (see page 5). That is why it Lelia J. Farr Vice Chair Marilyn R. Fox Lynn Koeneman Peter S. Wyse Jackson, President Robert R. Hermann Janet B. Lange was fitting that the Garden hosted ethnobotany MA, PhD, FLS Edward D. Higgins Mary V. Longrais experts from around the world to develop a Peter H. Raven, President Emeritus Paula M. Keinath Virginia McCook PhD Rosalyn H. Kling Isabelle C. Morris program to preserve useful plants and their Robert E. Kresko Gale Murphy Members June M. Kummer Jacquelin S. Naunheim communities’ traditional knowledge (see page 4). Mrs. Walter F. Ballinger II Lucy L. Lopata* Anita D. O’Connell Preserving biodiversity, however, should not Catherine B. Berges James S. McDonnell III Sue B. Oertli Daniel A. Burkhardt Evelyn Edison Newman Sue M. Rapp be limited to scientists in botanical gardens and Arnold W. Donald Roy Pfautch Susan N. Rowe research institutions. The choices we make every Sharon D. Fiehler Mabel L. Purkerson, MD Marsha J. Rusnack Robert R. Hermann, Jr. Margaret A. Ritter Sammy Ann Ruwitch day can have an impact on conserving plant David M. Hollo Anthony F. Sansone, Sr. Mary Lee Salzer-Lutz diversity and the environment—particularly David W. Kemper Joseph F. Shaughnessy Nancy L. Sauerhoff Charles E. Kopman Nancy R. Siwak Ron Schlapprizzi the food we eat. Growing heirloom fruits and Hal A. Kroeger Robert B. Smith III Susie Littmann Schulte vegetables (see page 8) and incorporating wild Carolyn W. Losos Nora R. Stern David Schulz Daniel J. Ludeman William K.Y. Tao, D.Sc. Celeste D. Sprung natives in our landscapes (see page 12) are just a Cynthia S. Peters George E. Thoma, MD Carol A. Squires Nicholas L. Reding Jack E. Thomas Susan Squires Goldschmidt few ways both farmers and home gardeners can Steven C. Roberts Jane S. Tschudy Patricia Steiner help prevent biodiversity loss. As we wrap up Marsha J. Rusnack John K. Wallace, Jr. Nora R. Stern Rakesh Sachdev O. Sage Wightman III Elizabeth Teasdale our Year of Food celebration, I encourage you to Stephen C. Sachs Roma B. Wittcoff Jane S. Tschudy continue learning about the plants that feed us Scott C. Schnuck Norma Williams Thad W. Simons Honorary Douglas R. Wolter and the role they play in our lives. Rex A. Sinquefield Surinder (Suri) Sehgal, PhD It is because of the incomparable support that Andrew C. Taylor Botanical Garden Subdistrict of the Eugene M. Toombs Members’ Board Metropolitan Zoological Park and you, our volunteers (see page 6), and outstanding Parker B. McMillan, President Museum District individuals (see page 4) give every day that Ex Officio Mary Ella J. Alfring Theresa Loveless The Hon. Charlie A. Dooley Ann M. Bowen John C. McPheeters the Missouri Botanical Garden continues to Myrtle E.B. Dorsey, PhD Eileen M. Carr Marcia B. Mellitz Thomas F. George, PhD Sue Cohen Martin Schweig be a leader in plant research, education, and Benjamin H. Hulsey Kristen Cornett Knapp Pamela Shephard conservation. On behalf of everyone at the The Hon. Francis G. Slay Jeanne P. Crawford Walter G. Stern Bishop George Wayne Smith Janelle Criscione Marjorie M. Weir Garden, the Butterfly House, and Shaw Nature Rick Sullivan Angela Dalton Robert M. Williams, Jr. Reserve, thank you! Mark S. Wrighton, PhD Jeanie C. Davis Hillary B. Zimmerman Mary Kay Denning Members Emeriti Ellen Dubinsky Non-voting advisory members: Clarence C. Barksdale Audrey Feuerbacher Janice M. Nelson John H. Biggs Michael C. Heim James H. Yemm Stephen F. Brauer Janet Hennessey Francis Yueh Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson, William H.T. Bush Janice A. Hermann President Bert Condie III Leslie P. Hood *deceased 2 Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin Fall 2013 Garden Hours The Garden is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day except during holiday hours (November 23 through January 5) when it closes early at 4 p.m. Closed on Christmas Day. General public outdoor walking hours begin at 7 a.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays. Contents General Admission $8 ($4 for residents of St. Louis City and County); children 12 and under are free. Garden members receive free admission (based on level). Children’s Garden: $5 for children; adults 8 admitted free. ($3 for Garden member Why children.) Member children admitted free on Tuesdays. Open April through October. Heirlooms? Contact Home gardeners can help Missouri Botanical Garden with the diversification of 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63110 crops in and outside the kitchen. (314) 577-5100 • www.mobot.org On the Cover: 10 Fall display including: (from bottom to top) Preserving Cucurbita maxima ‘Jaune Gros de Paris,’ Maclura pomifera, Physalis alkekengi, the Harvest Cucurbita maxima ‘Rouge Vif d’Etampes,’ Explore the many ways to Rosa canina, Cucurbita maxima ‘Polar Bear,’ preserve your summer bounty. Cucurbita maxima ‘Jarrahdale’, Nelumbo nucifera, Cucurbita pepo ‘Kakai Hulless’, Cucurbita pepo ‘Rascal,’ Cornus sericea Photo by Christopher Gibbons. President’s Comment ..............2 Credits News ..........................4 Editor/Designer: Andrea Molina ©2013 Missouri Botanical Garden Butterfly House .................. 11 The Bulletin is a benefit of Garden membership. The BULLETIN (ISSN 0026-6507) is published Shaw Nature Reserve ............. 12 quarterly by the Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63110. Tributes ....................... 13 Periodicals postage paid at St. Louis, MO Seen at the Garden ............... 16 POSTMASTER: Please send address changes Events ........................ 18 to Bulletin, Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 Calendar ....................... 20 Sustainability The Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin is printed on paper containing 100% post-consumer recycled content, that is, paper that you might have placed in the recycle bin in your home or office this year. It is manufactured using wind power, a renewable energy source. We print locally, so there is no long-haul transportation, and we’re reinvesting in our community. We work hard to choose the most environmentally responsible paper around. So if you aren’t quite ready to go completely electronic with our online version, you can still enjoy your paper Bulletin in good conscience. Once you’ve read it, please recycle. To discover and share knowledge about plants and their environment in order to preserve and enrich life. photo by Tom Incrocci photo by Tom – mission of the Missouri Botanical Garden News Leaders Gather at Lucy was a supporter of the Garden for over 50 years and Ethnobotany Workshop was also actively involved in the Representatives from around establishment of the Sophia M. the world gathered at the Missouri Sachs Butterfly House. She wanted Botanical Garden in May to address to engage children with the joy Targets 9, 11, 12, and 13 of the of nature and foster their natural United Nations’ Global Strategy sense of wonder. Whether they for Plant Conservation (GSPC), are investigating the Lopatapillar which relate to ethnobotany and sculpture and searching for insects economic botany. in the Native Garden or creating The workshop offered leaders projects and memories in the in these fields a chance to discuss Vijay Barve (left), of the Foundation for Revitalisation Lopata Learning Lab, visitors to and share ideas about their work. of Local Health Traditions in India, and Dr. Ehsan the Butterfly House will continue It was also an opportunity to Dulloo (right), of Bioversity International in Italy, at the to connect to nature in a playful, draft a document appealing to the ethnobotany workshop discussing the United Nation’s magical environment thanks to international community to work Global Strategy for Plant Conservation. Lucy’s gifts. to preserve plants that are useful Doris was a supporter of the to humans and promote traditional Leaving a Legacy Garden for over 40 years. Her knowledge. “We recognize that the Three longtime friends of the biggest joys in life came from [GSPC] is very important,” says Garden recently passed away: sharing the achievements and Edelmira Linares of the National Sonya “Sunny” W. Glassburg experiences of her children and Autonomous University of Mexico (1918–2013), Lucy L. Lopata grandchildren. To honor this Botanic Garden (JBUNAM in (1914–2013), and Doris I.