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Carniflora News THE AUSTRALASIAN CARNIVOROUS PLANTS SOCIETY INC. CARNIFLORA NEWS A.B.N. 65 467 893 226 JUNE 2019 Drosera marchantii ssp prophylla. Photographed by Robert Gibson. Drosera bulbosa ssp. major. Photographed by Robert Gibson Welcome to Carniflora News, a newsletter produced by the Australasian Carnivorous CALENDAR Plants Society Inc. that documents the meetings, news and events of the Society. JUNE 7th June 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra focusing on greenhouse management The current committee of the Australasian Carnivorous Plant Society Inc. comprises: 14th June 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Sydney featuring Carnivorous bromeliads JULY COMMITTEE 5th July 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra featuring bog gardens & winter plant maintenance 12th July 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Sydney & AGM featuring Winter growing Drosera President - Wesley Fairhall AUGUST 2nd August 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra featuring Cephalotus and Heliamphora 9th August 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Sydney featuring Pinguicula Vice President - David Colbourn SEPTEMBER [email protected] 6th September 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra featuring Pinguicula and Utricularia 13th September 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Sydney featuring Nepenthes Treasurer - David Colbourn OCTOBER [email protected] 5th October 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra featuring Nepenthes 11-13th October 2019 - Southern Orchid Spectacular Secretary - Kirk ‘Füzzy’ Hirsch 12th October 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Sydney featuring Summer growing Drosera [email protected] NOVEMBER 1st November 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra featuring Sarracenia General Committee Member - Barry Bradshaw 8th November 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Sydney featuring Sarracenia and Darlingtonia TBA - Triffid Park open day DECEMBER TBA - December 2019 - VCPS annual show, Collector’s Corner, Melbourne 6th December 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra - Christmas Party and Plant Show 13th December 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Sydney - Christmas Party and Plant Show featuring DELEGATES Dionaea (VFT) Journal Editor - Dr. Robert Gibson Sydney Coordinator - Wesley Fairhall JANUARY 3rd January 2020 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra FEBRUARY Newsletter Editor - David Colbourn Sydney Coordinator - Kirk Hirsch 7th February 2020 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra [email protected] [email protected] 14th February 2020 - AUSCPS meeting - Sydney featuring Byblis, Drosophyllum and Roridula MARCH Public Officer - Kirk Hirsch Brisbane Coordinator - Brent Jones 6th March 2020 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra [email protected] [email protected] 13th March 2020 - AUSCPS meeting - Sydney featuring Utricularia, Aldrovanda and Genlisea APRIL Website Manager - Marina Chong Brisbane Coordinator - Vacant 3rd April 2020 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra 10th April 2020 - AUSCPS meeting - Sydney featuring Nepenthes TBA - Collectors’ Plant Fair, Clarendon, N.S.W. 13th April 2020 - Royal Easter Show - Carnivorous Plant Competition Social Media Coordinator - Glen Moss Canberra Coordinator - Barry Bradshaw MAY 1st May 2020 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra Merchandise Manager - David Colbourn Canberra Coordinator - Chris Duffy 8th May 2020 - AUSCPS meeting - Sydney featuring Cephalotus and Heliamphora [email protected] Events Coordinator - Jeremy Aitken Canberra Coordinator - Robert Little Seed Bank Manager - Ian Woolf Library Manager - Glenn Carson [email protected] NEWS NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2019/20 EXECUTIVE AND COMMITTEE Our A.G.M. will be held at the Sydney meeting on the 12th of July. One of the objectives MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL at this meeting is to elect the executive (President, Vice-President, Secretary and Membership of the Australasian Carnivorous Plant Society Inc. (AUSCPS) is due now. Treasurer) and one additional Committee member. We are now a national Society, and Membership to the Society is $25 per calendar year, or $35 if you require printed as such, members from across Australia are eligible to occupy a position. A description journals with your membership. The AUSCPS is a not for profit organisation that of each executive position was detailed in the April newsletter. Over May we requested promotes the conservation and cultivation of carnivorous plants in Australia and abroad. members nominate themselves for one of the above positions. Membership entitles you to two editions of our journal, Carniflora Australis, subsidised seed from our seed bank, discounts off books and other merchandise and access to sell plants at meetings and fairs attended by the Society. A membership form is attached to this newsletter with instructions on how to make payment. CARNIFLORA AUSTRALIS The March 2019 edition of Carniflora Australis, our bi- annual journal, is out now. This edition features articles on: Managing diseases in Sarracenia, These nominees are listed in an attached ballot paper along with a proxy voting form for Travels in the Western Cape, those who are unable to attend the A.G.M. Please consider this opportunity to be more South Africa (Part 2), involved with the Society and have a say in our future. Orange flowered Drosera menziesii variant, and Spiders and cultivated FUND RAISING RAFFLE carnivorous plants. The AUSCPS is holding a new raffle for 2019. The prize is a copy of Redfern Natural History’s limited edition Cephalotus - the Albany Pitcher Plant. Tickets are $2 each or Contributions including articles, three for $5. Sales will be available at our meetings or online via PayPal. Just use the letters, photographs and payment instructions on our membership form and indicate the purchase is for raffle drawings to the journal are tickets. greatly appreciated and may be forwarded to the Society's postal address or on-line. Contributions MEETINGS IN PERTH to the journal may be submitted The AUSCPS has been informally seeking interest from members and friends in on CD, DVD, pen drive or by Western Australia to participate in the establishment of meetings in the Perth area. We email. Use Microsoft Word have received significant interest from people wanting to attend such meetings on a w h e n e v e r p o s s i b l e . F o r regular basis. The Committee has given approval to formally seek a team of members to instructions on submitting find a suitable venue and commence monthly meetings under the banner of the photographs and diagrams AUSCPS. As such no one has mede themselves available. If you would like to be please contact the editor involved in the commencement and establishment of meetings in Perth, please contact ([email protected]). David at [email protected]. If you have not received your copy yet, please get in touch with us. We have had some new members who have not supply us their contact details along with their membership. THE WORLD’S MOST SPECTACULAR PLANTS THE AUSTRALIAN KOI SHOW For the past year, Stewart McPherson has been busy developing a series of free videos The AUSCPS held a stall at the Koi Show this year. The show had a change of venue about the amazing plants of the world. Initially crowd funded, the first two videos have and was held at the Sydney International Equestrian Centre on Saxony Road Horsley now been released, the first of which introduces Carnivorous Plants. Visit the following Park. The stall generated significant interest and generated $xxxx in sales commission links to view the videos. for the Society. Carnivorous Plants: https://vimeo.com/332669603/637496b784 PLANTS WITH BITE Giant Flowers: https://vimeo.com/332669345/2e922bb143 The Plants with Bite exhibition has been extended an extra year and will conclude in June 2020. The exhibition is in the Calyx at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney. GROWING CARNIVOROUS PLANTS BOOK Thousands of Carnivorous Plants are on display. Entry is free. The Society has obtained a few hardback copies of Barry Rice’s book on the cultivation of Carnivorous Plants. Books will be available at meetings and events for $30 for Extra information may be found at: members or $35 for non-members. https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/whatson/plants-with-bite DECEMBER SYDNEY MEETINGS NEWSLETTER PHOTOS The Sydney meetings, which traditionally took We are looking to expand our file of quality photographs their break over December, will now be used in the newsletter. If you have any photos that you holding a meeting, allowing for a Christmas think may be suitable for publication in the newsletter, party and Annual Show in the future. No please forward them to [email protected] meetings will be held in January, allowing everyone to enjoy the holiday period. NEW CARNIVOROUS PLANT BOOK In this abundantly illustrated and highly entertaining RECOMMENCEMENT OF THE LIBRARY book, Dan Torre describes the evolution, structure and The Society has a vast collection of journals scientific background of carnivorous plants. He also from around the world along with a couple of shows how they have inspired our imaginations, books about carnivorous plants. As such we examining their cultural and social history and how they are bringing back our library available to have been represented in art, literature, cinema, members on a trial basis. It is expected the animation and popular culture. Author, Dan Torre, is a library will visit our branches on a rotation senior lecturer in the School of Design at RMIT basis. If you have any books that you would University, Melbourne, Australia. He is author of Cactus, like to donate, please contact your branch co- also published by Reaktion Books. ordinators or David at [email protected]. MEETINGS BRISBANE The Brisbane chapter of the AUSCPS is currently on hold with Alan Haase stepping The Australasian Carnivorous
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