About
Society Information
- Name: Bermuda Botanical Society
- We are a non-profit registered charity, and rely on the voluntary and unpaid assistance from our Executive Committee, Members and the Community.
- Established: September 1985
- Registered Charity Number: 249
- Contact:
- Post Office Box 2116
- City of Hamilton HM JX Bermuda
Committee
Not pictured – Lallitah Durgah
The Bermuda Botanical Society is run by an Executive Committee, elected each year by members at the Annual General Meeting. Any member of the Society can stand for election.
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International Year of Plant Health 2020
Plant health is increasingly under threat.
Plants are the source of the air we breathe and most of the food we eat, yet we often don’t think about keeping them healthy. This can have devastating results. FAO estimates that up to 40% of food crops are lost due to plant pests and diseases annually. This leaves millions of people without enough food to eat and seriously damages agriculture – the primary source of income for rural poor communities
Find out more at including what you can do to help. http://www.fao.org/plant-health-2020/about/en/British Virgin Islands Botanical Gardens
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New York Botanical Gardens
Royal Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh, Scotland
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Buttonwood, Conocarpus erectus, a hardy Bermuda native, is flowering profusely at the moment. The small green caterpillar - probably one of the Palipita species - which attacks the growing shoots of the buttonwood in spring, is also feeding on the flowers. When they pupate they make a 'nest' of dead material and silken threads. Be interesting to know when the moth was first noticed in Bermuda
Not commonly seen the male cone of the Cycad revoluta - and this is the first time I have seen a bee entering the cone to find pollen!