Our April meeting
Rauh with Tillandsia rauhii v. longispica
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An Interactive Presentation
Our April program was presented by Pam Koide Hyatt. Her talks are always fascinating, full of information, and accompanied by her wonderful photos, and this talk was no different.
Pamela Koide Hyatt, member of SDBS and owner of Bird Rock Tropicals, plant explorer and tillandsia hybridizer extraordinaire has been exploring and growing bromeliads and orchids since 1980. Her main focus is the genus Tillandsia. She has travelled extensively throughout Mexico, Central and South America in search of tillandsias, made more than 3000 tillandsia hybrids, and lectured internationally about them.
Pamela Koide Hyatt, member of SDBS and owner of Bird Rock Tropicals, plant explorer and tillandsia hybridizer extraordinaire has been exploring and growing bromeliads and orchids since 1980. Her main focus is the genus Tillandsia. She has travelled extensively throughout Mexico, Central and South America in search of tillandsias, made more than 3000 tillandsia hybrids, and lectured internationally about them.
Pam with her hybrid Tillandsia ’Samantha'
About the presentation, Pam said:
"During a recent presentation to a Bromeliad Society group I mentioned the name of the late Professor Werner Rauh. Immediately someone in the audience asked “who is that?” This came as a surprise to me, as I have always considered him the godfather of bromeliads. So this is a fitting time to present a new program about his life and important work with bromeliads. He was the director at the Heidelberg Botanical Garden and Herbarium for several decades. Prior to his retirement, he undertook more than 36 expeditions, mainly to South and Central America, as well as to southern Africa and Madagascar. This program will discuss his wonderful work and contribution to the world of bromeliads."
“When Werner Rauh died, he left behind 78 field books with a total of 8,812 hand-written pages, now archived in Bonn, Germany. There is now a Werner Rauh Heritage project creating a relational database to store the heterogeneous information found in these field books, as well as to link the information to actual taxonomy and to the garden’s existing database, the living collection and numerous plant type specimens material.”
"During a recent presentation to a Bromeliad Society group I mentioned the name of the late Professor Werner Rauh. Immediately someone in the audience asked “who is that?” This came as a surprise to me, as I have always considered him the godfather of bromeliads. So this is a fitting time to present a new program about his life and important work with bromeliads. He was the director at the Heidelberg Botanical Garden and Herbarium for several decades. Prior to his retirement, he undertook more than 36 expeditions, mainly to South and Central America, as well as to southern Africa and Madagascar. This program will discuss his wonderful work and contribution to the world of bromeliads."
“When Werner Rauh died, he left behind 78 field books with a total of 8,812 hand-written pages, now archived in Bonn, Germany. There is now a Werner Rauh Heritage project creating a relational database to store the heterogeneous information found in these field books, as well as to link the information to actual taxonomy and to the garden’s existing database, the living collection and numerous plant type specimens material.”
Prof. Rauh in Ecuador with Tillandsia fendleri
Here's some recent spring images
from the San Diego Bromeliad Society Facebook page.
from the San Diego Bromeliad Society Facebook page.
