Native Plant Project’s guest speaker for the January 28th meeting in Weslaco will be Christina Mild, active Board Member of the Native Plant Project and long-time Editor of the “Sabal,” the monthly newsletter of the Native Plant Project. Mild’s presentation is entitled, “Dusty Old Botanical Tomes.” She has been studying native plants of the Lower Rio Grande Valley for the past 30 years both on the college level, with Dr. Alfred Richardson at the university in Brownsville and with Dr. Robert Lonard in Edinburg, as well as through extensive research in the field. Under Dr. Richardson’s direction, she became familiar with a number of almost forgotten publications on native plants, many of which were from his private collection. Then, while taking Dr. Lonard’s Botany course, she found an even wider selection of botanical books in the library at the university in Edinburg. These large books (tomes) provided invaluable and sometimes profound information about the native plants that could not be found by any other means. Through her presentation, Mild wishes to entertain us and to share the fact that, “not everything you want to know about our natives can be found on the internet.”
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