PP&R AND HOYT ARBORETUM WELCOME CHINESE BOTANISTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL OUTREACH AND IDEA EXCHANGE
Posted: July 26th, 2011 9:05 AM
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July 25th, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Mark Ross, Public Information Officer
503.823.5300; cell 503.823.6634
Hoyt Arboretum Welcomes Chinese Botanists for Environmental Outreach and Idea Exchange:
Portland Parks & Recreation & Hoyt Arboretum Friends Host Delegation from China's Famed Lushan Gardens
(Portland, OR) -
A delegation from the famed Lushan Botanical Garden in Jiangxi Province, China, is visiting
Oregon this week, hosted by the Hoyt Arboretum Friends in partnership with Portland Parks & Recreation. The visit is an opportunity for Portland Parks & Recreation and Hoyt Arboretum Friends to share how we care for, manage and protect the Rose City's natural resources with an esteemed delegation of Chinese botanists and representatives.
The visit will be highlighted by a lecture by Lushan Botanical Garden Director Zhan Xuanhuai that will serve as a chance for Portland's gardening community to meet the delegation and to learn about our horticultural connections. Director Zhan's lecture is co-sponsored by the Northwest China Council, headquartered in Portland.
Media members are welcome to attend.
This event is co-sponsored by Hoyt Arboretum Friends and
National Resource Center (NRC) for East Asian Studies.
WHEN: Tuesday, July 26, 2011
6:30pm Registration & reception (cookies, coffee, & tea)
7:00pm - 8:30pm Lecture
WHERE: Room 140/142 U of O White Stag Building
70 NW Couch St. Portland, OR 97209
COST
$5 members of NWCC and Hoyt Arboretum,
$10 non-members, $5 full-time students
(Please add $5 to above if paying at the door)
Media members are welcome to attend.
For more information, or for tickets, please go to http://www.nwchina.org/programs/110612lushan.htm
Lushan is a fabled mountain in south-central China rising 4000 feet above the Yangtze
River about 300 miles inland from Shanghai. Home in the past to poets and politicians,
monks and missionaries, it is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the location of
China's first botanical garden, founded in 1934 with American Boxer Rebellion reparation
funds returned to China for scientific development.
This important international sub-alpine garden shares Oregon's cool, damp climate and
wealth of conifers, ferns, and rhododendrons. It is renowned for its discovery in 1947 of
the "living fossil" Metasequioia glyptostroboides (Dawn Redwood) which thrives today in
the Hoyt Arboretum. It is also famous for its Lushan mist tea plantation, Medicinal Herb
Garden, and Actinidia Garden (aka Kiwifruit). The Garden shares Hoyt's commitment to
biodiversity conservation and protection of rare and endangered species. It occupies
more than 700 mountaintop acres, has a staff of 116, and a wide range of research
programs.
Director Zhan will describe the Garden's special collections and its particular interest in
better understanding and assembling a collection of East Asian-North American
Disjunction Plants which are found in both Oregon and China.
Hoyt Arboretum
http://www.hoytarboretum.org/events/upcoming-events/
is a non-profit greenspace that encompasses 187 ridge-top acres, accessible by 12 miles of trails in the heart of Portland. Hoyt Arboretum is co-managed under a partnership between Portland Parks & Recreation and Hoyt Arboretum Friends.
A special Lushan Garden Fund, in memory of Roy Allgood, has been established by Hoyt Arboretum Friends to support our hospitality for this delegation and for reciprocal visits to Lushan.
For more info: call 503.823.5300, or visit portlandparks.org.
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Mark Ross Public Information Officer
Portland Parks & Recreation
503.823.5300 (office); 503.823.6634 (cell)
Mark.ross@portlandoregon.gov
Healthy Parks, Healthy Portland
portlandparks.org
Nick Fish, Commissioner | Sue Keil, Interim Director
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