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Inside: the Seedy Side of the Gardens! Inside: The seedy side of the Gardens! Welcome to His Excellency Mr Michael Bryce, Patron: His Excellency Mr Michael Bryce our new Vice Patron Mrs Marlena Jeffery President David Coutts Vice President Barbara Podger Patron Secretary John Connolly Treasurer Marion Jones Membership Secretary Barbara Scott Public Officer David Coutts His Excellency Mr Michael Bryce, AM AE has accepted the role of Patron of the General Committee Don Beer Friends, eective from 28 May 2011. e Friends are delighted that Mr Bryce Anne Campbell has agreed to take on this role, succeeding Mrs Marlena Jeery. Mrs Jeery is Lesley Jackman Andy Rawlinson very happy to continue her association with Friends by assuming the role of Vice Warwick Wright Patron and her ongoing support is much appreciated. Social Events Jan Finley Mr Bryce is a highly regarded architect and was made a Member of the Order Thursday Talks Warwick Wright Fronds Committee Margaret Clarke of Australia (AM) for service as an architect to the development of industrial, Barbara Podger graphic and commercial design reecting Australian heritage and the environ- Anne Rawson ment, to education and to the community. His commitment to the Austral- Growing Friends Kath Holtzapffel ian National Botanic Gardens will be of great value in continuing to grow and Botanic Art Groups Helen Hinton Photographic Group Sheila Cudmore strengthen this vital national institution. Exec. Director, ANBG Dr Judy West Post: Friends of ANBG, GPO Box 1777 IN THIS ISSUE Canberra ACT 2601 Australia Telephone: (02) 6250 9548 (messages) Our new Patron .....................................................................2 Internet: www.friendsanbg.org.au Email addresses: Seed partnerships .................................................................3 [email protected] [email protected] Alpine seed research progress ..............................................4 [email protected] Alpine volunteer opportunities ...............................................5 The Friends newsletter, Fronds, is published three times a year. We welcome your A volunteer seed collector .....................................................6 articles for inclusion in the next issue. Alpine research garden .........................................................7 Material should be forwarded to the Fronds Committee by the first of June for the August Botanical Photographic Group...............................................8 issue; first of October for the December Growing Friends growing grasses .........................................8 issue; and first of February for the April issue. Email or post material to the Fronds Botanic artists at Bywong ......................................................9 Committee at the above addresses or, place Volunteer guides ....................................................................9 in the Friends letterbox, located inside the Gardens’ Visitor Centre, between 9.00am A tale of eucalypts, revolution and murder ..........................10 and 4.30pm, Monday to Sunday. Editorial Lollies and nuts in the rainforest ..........................................12 messages: telephone (02) 6250 9548. Design and layout: Anne Rawson Westbourne Woods adventure ............................................12 Printing: Union Offset Printers Friends briefs .......................................................................13 Printed on recycled paper Garden shorts ......................................................................14 ISSN 1036 9163 Feeling seedy? ....................................................................15 Cover: Oreomyrrhis eriopoda (Australian Caraway), a perennial herb 5-30 cm high From the Bookshop .............................................................16 which is common above the treeline, in tall alpine herbfields and heaths. Canberra Instiute of Botanic Art...........................................16 Photo by Gemma Hoyle. What’s on at the Gardens ....................................................17 2 Fronds 68 August 2011 Seed partnerships Lucy Sutherland Seed hunters rediscover the Tarcoola pea. Seed hunter Thai NSW Seedbank collectors found Swainsona fla- Using seed for species recovery. Collecting seed from reintro- Te, collects seeds from the Tarcoola pea in northern South vicarinata for the first time in 45 years after the duced populations. Photo: Anne Cochrane. Australia. Photo: SA Seed Conservation Centre. 2010 rains in NSW. Photo: G. Errington. Dr Lucy Sutherland is National Coordinator for the Austra- • sharing seed knowledge through a virtual seed bank. lian Seed Bank Partnership Within this wide framework, the ASBP has four priori- In 2001, the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew launched the ties. e ‘1000 Species Project’ involves Partners col- Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP) to store seeds lecting the seeds of 1000 species that are not currently for future use as an insurance policy against the extinc- represented either in the MSB or within any Australian tion of plants in the wild. One hundred and twenty or- collection. Another priority is the Alpine and Montane ganisations in more than 50 countries are partners in the Program, bringing together the expertise of several bo- MSBP. When the rst phase of the MSB project came to tanic gardens to combat the expected loss of biodiversity an end in 2010, a representative third of Australia’s ora through changing climates. is work involves a national had been collected, about 25 per cent of our threatened approach to seed collection and seed based research to plants had been banked, a new generation of seed scien- determine species resilience, community thresholds and tists had been trained and a network of seed researchers, translocation potential. collectors and technicians had been established. e Integrated Restoration of Understorey Species To build on this 10 year legacy, the Australian Seed Bank (IRUS) Program aims to overcome some of the critical Partnership (ASBP) was established. Its members in- gaps in knowledge on the practical techniques for ‘crack- clude all the capital city botanic gardens, the Royal Bo- ing the germination code’ for understorey plants. is tanic Gardens Kew, as well as the Australian Network for work will create new knowledge for practitioners to ad- Plant Conservation, Greening Australia, plus Grith and vance on-ground restoration practices. Finally, Australia’s Queensland universities to support the work of the Bris- conservation seed banks have captured large quantities of bane Botanic Gardens. Some of these were members of data on owering periods and seed behaviour and stor- the Kew partnership; some are new. age characteristics. e Partnership is working with the e aim of the ASBP is to safeguard Australia’s ora Atlas of Living Australia to create an accessible online seed against extinction by 2020 through a national network resource. of native seed banks. A number of the seed collections e ANBG’s seed science program is growing. Our cur- are also banked at Kew, and these duplicate collections rent priority is to build our collection of alpine ora and provide an extra insurance policy. species from grasslands of the Southern Highlands. Later is safeguarding includes: in 2011, a Seed Researcher will be appointed for the next • collecting and storing seed in secure seed banks as a two years to strengthen the seed research program at the long term insurance against loss of Australia’s ora ANBG. • unlocking the secrets of seeds by researching dorman- Friends have an opportunity to support the ANBG’s cy, germination and viability to help improve the out- seed conservation and research work by volunteering comes of conservation and restoration work on the new program focussing on collecting seed from • training new seed scientists, collectors and restorers to local plants to augment the ANBG colection (see ‘Feeling improve practices and support the conservation and seedy? page 15) as well as the Alpine Seed Research restoration of biodiverse and resilient ecosystems Project (see page 5). Fronds 68 August 2011 3 Alpine seed research progress Adrienne Nicotra In last August’s Fronds issue Gemma Hoyle reported on in December. So far the study has been very well received ‘e Alpine Seed Research Project . so far’. Much has and the team continues to collect and analyse data. happened in the year since and the Friends have been Honours student Deborah Segal presented her work at the integrally involved every step of the way. What follows is ESA meeting and was awarded the prize for best inaugural a brief summary of what the project has achieved to date. talk. Deb’s work examined eects of altitude on vegetative As you may know, we conducted six seed collecting trips and reproductive traits in eight alpine plant species. Her this summer with wonderful Friends support. As a result study demonstrated that within a species, plants grown many new alpine seed collections are now stored for at higher altitudes were shorter and produced larger long-term conservation, and associated research, in the seeds. Deb also found that the altitude at the site of seed ANBG seed bank; we made 63 collections in 2010–11 development can aect early seedling growth and even eld season, and 99 the year before. In addition, students, owering time in plants grown in controlled common ANBG sta and other ANU researchers made several environments. Deb is currently writing up her work for trips to the Alps to set up and monitor experiments in publication. the eld. Honours student
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