Looking at Palms with Special Guest Dr. Marc Jeanson

October 8 | 4-5 p.m.
Price: $20

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Palms This presentation will be an overview of the different aspects of palm biology and architecture, as well as an occasion to focus on some of the members of the family and evoke few historical figures who participated in the knowledge and appreciation of this very diverse group.

About the Speaker Born in 1981 Marc Jeanson is a French agronomist and botanist. During his PhD at The New York Botanical Garden he specialized in the systematics and taxonomy of a group of southeast asian Palms. He is, since 2013, the curator of the French National Herbarium at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. Interested in the dialogue and complementary knowledges of gardners and botanists, Marc is also scientific advisor of the “Rencontres Botanique de Varengeville” created by Pascal Cribier in 2012 and taking place in the gardens of Varengeville sur Mer (Normandy, France), and has recently been invited by Madison Cox to participate in the “Colloque Botanique” organized in 2014 by the “Jardin Majorelle” in Marrakech (Marocco).

Email: gardenprograms@berkeley.edu

Phone: 510-664-9841