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EAS Geneva Garden Visit

We’re excited to announce the sign up for our next event! Join us on Friday 11th October in Geneva for an exclusive visit of the rich and historical collections of Geneva Conservatory and Botanical Garden, the largest public botanical garden in Switzerland. The botanical garden includes a living collection of 14.000 species from 249 different families from around the world, a historical herbarium with nearly six million botanical specimens and a very famous library containing 120.000 books, one of the finest botanical library in the world. More info here: https://www.cjbg.ch/

After the event, we will enjoy a lecture by Austrian botanist David Prehsler on tuberous aroids. Prehsler is a botanist part of the horticultural staff at the Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna, where he grows a large amount of unusual and challeging plants. His speciality is difficult tuberous plants such as Amorphophallus, of which he has authored several species. In 2020, Cynorkis prehsleri was named in his honour. 

The sign up for this event will open on Sunday 4th of August at 21:00 GMT+2 here. There will be 30 places available. The event will be free. If you are travelling from abroad, we recommend you to arrive in Geneva on the evening before the day of the event.

Important notice: This event is only open to people who are current members of the European Aroid Society. Partners will need to register prior to signing up for the event. Want to be present? Join or Renew today!

We hope to see you there!

Araceously,

The EAS Board