This talk, which partners a major pictorial display at the Tree House, starts with a look at landscapes preceding the rise of trees. It then focuses on the Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous geological periods, characterised by the appearance of the likes of scale trees, seed ferns and calamites.….and the swamp forests that gave rise to the production of coal. Then it advances to the Permian period, including Gondwana prior to its eventual breakup, and the beautiful, strange, gymnosperm Glossopteris that was widespread in the ancient southern continents, embracing what is now New Zealand/Aotearoa. Finally, it progresses to the world of ‘living fossils’ such as ginkgo and the even more primitive horsetails. Attention will be drawn to some of the animals that populated this ancient world.
Located in the Treehouse Seminar Room, Wellington Botanic Garden ki Paekākā.
Free of charge. You’re welcome to bring along your own ‘brown bag’ lunch to enjoy during the talk.
The speaker is Reg Harris, a volunteer guide [botany] at Wellington Botanic Garden.
Reg delivers botany lectures for diverse audiences, delving into plant interactions, adaptive radiation, tropisms, and more. As a dedicated volunteer guide at Wellington Botanic Garden (WBG), he pioneered collaborations between WBG and Victoria University, organising annual field labs for biology students.
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