Goodwood Brown Bag Series: Flowering of Australia

First Friday Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Series: “The Flowering of Australia”
Goodwood Museum and Gardens
Jubilee Cottage
Friday, January 8, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
By: Dr. John Tobe
Free of Charge, No Reservations Required
Attendees may bring their lunch if desired

Botanist and natural historian Dr. John David Tobe will be giving a lecture on the rich floral diversity of the southwest Australia ecoregion. There are approximately 6,759 species and almost half of these are endemics to this area of the world. The unique combination of ancient landscape, nutrient deficient soils, and primarily Mediterranean type climate and ecology has resulted in over 250 million years of plant evolution and created a landscape dominated by eucalyptus, tea trees, bottlebrush, banksias, grevilleas, wattles and other uniquely Australia genera. This lecture will highlight some of the most characteristic species as well as floral gems of the area.