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Live talk via Zoom: Larry Zettler will talk on Saving Orchids: Their Future in a Warming World.
Sat 01 Oct
|Zoom meeting
The meeting opens for orchid chat at 10.30am. Larry Zettler's Talk starts at 11am. This event is free & exclusively for OSGB members. Larry Zettler will be giving us a talk entitled: Saving Orchids: Their Future in a Warming World.


Time & Location
01 Oct 2022, 11:00
Zoom meeting
Guests
About the Event
Larry Zettler will be giving us a talk entitled: Saving Orchids: Their Future in a Warming World. Dr. Lawrence (Larry) W. Zettler was raised in north-central Florida, near Gainesville. After earning his B.S. degree from the University of Florida (1987), Larry earned his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology from Clemson University in 1994 where he developed a protocol for propagating Platanthera integrilabia from seed using a fungus symbiotic germination) that he later co-described as a new species. In 1996, he established Illinois College’s Orchid Recovery Program that enlists the help of undergraduate college students to conserve rare species throughout the United States and around the world. The first species he studied at Illinois College was the U.S. Federally threatened Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid, Platanthera leucophaea. Since that time, 100+ undergraduate students have studied other rare orchids in the Midwest, as well as Florida, Hawaii, the Caribbean, and South America. During 2012-2017, he…