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If you have been reading up on your succulents recently, you may be aware that there seems to be a lot of name changing going on. Of course, plant names do change occasionally and we all deplore it. Here to explain such puzzling changes is Dean Kelch Senior Plant Taxonomist at the California Dept of Food and Agriculture Herbarium and an Assistant Researcher at the University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California. He is also past president of the SFSCS and president of the California Botanical Society. As both an avid horticulturist and a plant taxonomist, he is interested in reaching out to end users of plant names.
Oddly enough, this just censure doesn't seem to stop plant taxonomists from doing it anyway. If anything, their mischievousness has increased in the last few years. At our February meeting Dr. Dean Kelch will explain that many of these innovations are result of significant new advances in the science of classification. Other changes are the result of changing fashions and opinions. Which of these changes do you have to follow and which ones are optional? Will they have to pry your Notocactus labels out of your cold, dead fingers? Come to the meeting and find out.
Featured grower: Dean Kelch
Show and Tell: Opuntioids, Winter Growers and anything in flower
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