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The Newsletter of the Singapore Botanic Gardens Volume 28, January 2007 Issn 12-1688 Gardenwise THE NEWSLETTER OF THE SINGAPORE BOTANIC GARDENS VOLUME 28, JANUARY 2007 ISSN 12-1688 43 ggardenwiseardenwise JANJAN 07.indd07.indd 4343 44/27/07/27/07 44:37:39:37:39 PPMM Author C o n t e n t s Message from the Director Chin See Chung 1 Articles The 4th International Ginger Symposium Benito C. Tan, Serena Lee, 2 - A Gathering of Ginger Enthusiasts Ho Boon Chuan Ginger Research in the Gardens Jana Leong-Skornickova 4 Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778) Ian Turner 6 - Father of Systematic Biology Victoria ‘Adventure’ – The Final Chapter Andrea Kee 7 The Herbarium Moves…Yet Again! Serena Lee & 8 Hassan Ibrahim Library of Botany and Horticulture Hassan Ibrahim 10 - A New Beginning The Singapore Garden Festival 2006 Kho Soo Pei 12 Stage Programmes at the Singapore Garden Festival Janice Yau, Winnie Wong, 16 Seri Hayuni Hadi Paphiopedilums at the Singapore Orchid Show Henry Oakeley 18 The Singapore Orchid Show Henry Oakeley 20 Our Award Winning Orchids Yam Tim Wing & 23 Aung Thame Regular Features Around the Gardens ❖ National Day Observance Ceremony Yap Siow Hong 25 in the Gardens ❖ Offi cial Opening of Tanglin Core and Launch Yap Siow Hong 25 of ‘Gardens by the Bay’ Masterplan Exhibition ❖ Calendar Launch 2007 – A Celebration Serena Lee & 26 of Gingers Jana Leong-Skornickova Beyond the Gardens ❖ Education in Botanic Gardens in the Janice Yau & 27 United Kingdom Seri Hayuni Hadi What’s Blooming ❖ A Canvas of Colours after the Rains... Nura Abdul Karim & 28 Jana Leong-Skornickova New & Exciting ❖ Ivory Trumpet – Rothmannia longifl ora Andrea Kee 30 (Family Rubiaceae) From the Education Outreach ❖ Art in Nature: New Workshops for Children Janice Yau 31 Taxonomy Corner ❖ Taxonomic Research on the Orchid Genus Hubert Kurzweil 32 Calanthe Book Review ❖ The Boom of Ginger Books! Jana Leong-Skornickova 34 Notes from the Economic Gardens ❖ Plants for your Hair – Henna and co. Ian Turner 36 Key Visitors to the Gardens (July to December 2006) 37 From the Archives ❖ Pictures of a Thousand Words Hassan Ibrahim 38 Front Cover: Editor Asst. Editor & Production Manager A night view of the Botany Centre. Chin See Chung Hassan Ibrahim Inset shows part of the Tanglin Gate Singapore Botanic Gardens, 1 Cluny Road, Singapore 259569 NATIONAL PARKS BOARD Gardenwise Gardenwise [email protected] www.sbg.org.sg www.nparks.gov.sg 40 ggardenwiseardenwise JANJAN 07.indd07.indd 4040 44/27/07/27/07 44:37:50:37:50 PPMM MMessageessage fromfrom thethe DDirectorirector All hoardings at the Tanglin Core fi nally came We see the Gardens playing the roles of a down on 6th September 2006. Our visitors premier international botanical institution, can now enjoy this end of the Gardens again. engaging and collaborating with like It had taken several years to complete the institutions around the world. We see it Botany Centre and its surrounding landscapes growing in stature as a centre of excellence at this Core. The Centre houses research for horticulture, botany and conservation. facilities designed to engage our visitors The support we have received from both and include the herbarium, library and our customers and stakeholders has been laboratories. Other visitor amenities include very encouraging. The new Centre and a substantial car park, food court and a one- surrounding landscapes are proving very stop DIY Centre at the library. Here visitors popular with visitors and have become a can identify plants using the collection of destination of choice for many. labelled herbarium specimens (see pages 10-11). They can browse and refer to the This issue of Gardenwise highlights two excellent collection of books and multimedia important events. The fi rst event held at our materials on botany, horticulture, landscape new Centre was the 4th International Ginger and natural history. There is also a small but Symposium (see pages 2-3), when it was interesting display of dried fruits and seeds barely completed. This brought together and artifacts made from them. ginger experts and enthusiasts from around the world for four days of intensive scholarly The historical main entrance was rebuilt with exchange. a fi nely crafted, lacy gate using the popular fl owering climber, Bauhinia kockiana, as the Another fi rst was the inaugural Singapore motif. And enticing visitors from the gate into Garden Festival 2006, our international the gardens are new and lush landscapes. A garden and fl ower show (see pages 12-22). naturalistic stream winds its way down to This was staged with great success and a decorative pond complete with a mural delivered a quality and diversity several specially commissioned for the location. This notches above what Singapore had ever seen streamside trail, ‘Saraca Walk,’ has Saraca before. Together with the Singapore Orchid caulifl ora as the feature species, alluding to Show, an important component, the Festival the Saraca Stream vegetation common to parts gave the some 200,000 visitors a visual and of the lowland rain forests of the region. experiential treat only some could have experienced in a few established overseas With the excellent facilities at the Botany shows. Centre, the Gardens has never been better positioned to play a leading role in research, With new areas managed and new themed conservation, education and training. Our gardens, we also sought additional capacity. functional spaces located amidst a growing And we are glad to be able to announce that verdant landscapes are ideal focal points for several positions in botany, education and public interface, learning, and professional horticulture have been approved in the fi rst and intellectual exchange. In partnership phase of capacity building. However, the with our colleagues in NParks, the industry, quest for excellence and doing even better NGOs and our international partners, a each time demand the best from all who comprehensive strategy is being adopted serve the Gardens. to ensure a high level of botanical and horticultural activity here. Chin See Chung 1 ggardenwiseardenwise JANJAN 07.indd07.indd 1 44/27/07/27/07 44:37:51:37:51 PPMM Participants at the 4th International Ginger Symposium posing for a group picture The 4th International Ginger Symposium – A Gathering of Ginger Enthusiasts he Gardens hosted the 4th with Professor Leo Tan, Chairman that they were the first group of TInternational Ginger Symposium of National Parks Board (NParks), visitors to use the facilities of the from 3rd to 6th July 2006. It was well as Guest-of-Honour. It was truly just completed Botany Centre at the attended with 187 participants from a warm welcome, as there was Tanglin Core of the Gardens. 19 countries. A total of 32 posters a hitch with the air conditioning and 49 oral papers were presented. system at the Function Hall where Seven authorities on Zingiberaceae the conference was taking place. were invited to give special lectures The symposium opened with a Dr Chin See Chung, Director of the at the beginning of each oral simple ceremony on the fi rst day Gardens, informed the participants presentation sessions. They are Professor Leo Tan, Chairman of NParks, giving his opening speech to participants 2 ggardenwiseardenwise JANJAN 07.indd07.indd 2 44/27/07/27/07 44:37:51:37:51 PPMM AArticlerticle abundance of information presented of the participants voted to go to the as well as the delicious food provided Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical in between the talks and workshops. Gardens in Yunnan Province of Most feel that it will take months, China for the next symposium to if not years, for them to digest the be held in 2009. enormous new information obtained from attending the symposium. Dr John Kress made the much- awaited announcement of three A special workshop was organized winning posters put up during to discuss the World Checklist of the the conference. The winners were Family Zingiberaceae on the third Universiti Malaysia Sabah headed by day of the symposium. Participants, Ms A. Julius, Khon Kaen University however, seem divided as to the headed by Professor P. Wangsomnuk, usefulness of such a checklist of and Herbarium of Czech National Professor Kai Larsen, one of the seven taxa based purely on publications Museum, Prague, headed by Mr O. invited speakers and not founded on the revision of Sida. To remind everyone of the the taxa. ginger symposium, each participant Professor Kai Larsen and Dr Axel returned home with a certifi cate of Poulsen from the Aarhus University Aside from the lively thematic attendance and a complimentary (Denmark), Professor Puangpen discussions, there were also free copy of the group photograph, Sirirugsa from Prince of Songkla and easy activities included in the in addition to a printed copy of University (Thailand), Dr John Kress programme. These included guided programme and abstracts. of the Smithsonian Institution (USA), tours to the National Orchid Garden Dr Mark Newman of the Royal and Ginger Garden. Alternative half- “Indeed, the moment has come when Botanic Garden Edinburgh (UK), day excursions to do either the Tree- our group experience will become Professor Halijah binti Ibrahim from Top Trail at MacRitchie Reservoir a historical memory,” remarked the University of Malaya (Malaysia) or a visit to the Sungei Buloh Dr Benito C. Tan, Co-Chairman and Mr Alan Carle from Queensland Wetland Reserve was also offered of the symposium, in closing. He (Australia). They and other speakers as a post-symposium activity to the highlighted the growing number of spoke on wide ranging topics, from participants and their companions. participants at each of the Ginger molecular phylogeny, taxonomy, Symposia from the fi rst one held in evolution, ecology, pollination At the closing ceremony, the venue 1991. Then there were only some 50 biology, developmental morphology, for the 5th International Symposium people presenting 25 papers.
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