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Guided walk: Interesting Trees of the Durban Botanic Gardens

Dr Hugh Glen will show a few of his favourite trees, many of which have amazing stories attached.

November 4, 2019
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Dr Hugh Glen taken on a previous walk, next to one of the oldest trees in the Gardens, the indigenous Ziziphus mucronata (Buffalo-thorn).

Dr Hugh Glen will amaze with his knowledge and amuse with his anecdotes on Saturday, November 9 (reserve date if rain: Saturday, 30 November) at 9.30am.

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Hugh will show a few of his favourite trees, many of which have amazing stories attached.

Foodies will enjoy seeing some of their much-loved ingredients live, such as cinnamon, chocolate and the colour used in cheddar cheese.

Dr Hugh Glen’s photo taken in the Durban Botanic Gardens of Encephalartos woodii (Wood’s Cycad – extinct in the wild).

 

Hugh will show a tree that makes us think of steam trains, another that links (by a sort of “six degrees of separation”) Victorian furniture, buying a goat for supper in Yemen, and Beethoven.

He considers the sad story of the world’s loneliest tree, as well as an elderly lala palm, and one that inspired a previous group to sing old advertising jingles from Springbok Radio.

Who ever said trees weren’t well-connected?

Entrance: R50 per person towards Hugh’s daughter, Melissa Glen’s medical costs.

Melissa, also a botanist, has a blood disease requiring frequent hospital stays.

Booking essential to the BotSoc Branch Office: Email: botsoc-kzn@mweb.co.za Tel: 031 2015111 / cell: 071 8 693 693

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