Davidsonia

Davidsonia - A journal of botanical garden science.

Editor Iain Taylor writes about the historical development of the landscape at the University of British Columbia and the UBC Botanical Garden.

The life of early 20th century plantsman, Frank Ebenezer Buck and his many influences on the landscape development of British Columbia are chronicled, by local landscape architect Clive L. Justice.

The UBC Botanical Garden published its first official index seminum seed exchange list in 1939. This important exchange of plant materials among botanic gardens and other institutions is described by curator of the E.H. Lohbrunner Alpine Garden, Brent Hine.

Notes on papers (some technical and others less so) that may be of interest.

Davidsonia - A Journal of Botanical Garden Science. Volume 8, Number 2, April 2007.

Editor Iain Taylor writes about the role of botanic gardens in the conservation of rare plants.

Fargesia nitida, the fountain bamboo, is a hardy and attractive bamboo that is commonly cultivated in North America. Because its reproductive structures were not known until recently, there have been several taxonomic issues with this species. Fargesia nitida began flowering in 1993 in the United Kingdom for the first time since its original collection in its native China in 1886, and it has since been expected to flower in North America. Here I document its recent flowering in Vancouver, British Columbia, and I provide a morphological description of flowering individuals of this species.

Carrierea calycina, a tree in the Flacourtiaceae, was collected by the plant explorer, E. H. Wilson, in 1908 and introduced to the United Kingdom from seed obtained in western Sichuan (Mupin). The plants were raised in the U.K. by Messers. Veitch and Sons, and distributed in 1912 as part of their closing sale…It seemed that the only surviving specimen in the British Isles was at Birr Castle in Eire, but a second was later found at Rowallane in Northern Ireland. I reintroduced this tree to cultivation some 20 years after I was employed as curator of the David C. Lam Asian Garden at the University of British Columbia (UBC) Botanical Garden.

Klaas J. van Wijk, Cornell University, reviews Plant Proteomics, edited by Christine Finnie.