By Tomasz Anisko
Longwood Gardens of Kennett sq., Pennsylvania, enjoys an extended and amazing culture of plant exploration and advent, courting again to the root of its arboretum in 1798. because the Fifties, 50 such plant-hunting expeditions have taken position on six continents and in a few 50 international locations. those quests are the topic of Plant Exploration for Longwood Gardens, which tells the tales of the folks who participated in what have been usually exhausting yet regularly stimulating adventures and the crops they introduced again. Illustrated with 500 images, this e-book presents an entire account of those trips to the a long way corners of the area and is bound to be a desirable learn for an individual attracted to the heritage of plant exploration and advent.
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It was not until China removed some of the restrictions on travel to Tibet in the 1990s that it became possible to send plant-collecting expeditions to that part of the world. In 2000 I joined the team organized by Dr. Zsolt Debreczy and Dr. István Rácz, principal investigators of the International Dendrological Research Institute in Wellesley, Massachusetts, to travel to eastern Tibet, a region administered by Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. In the early 1970s, Debreczy and Rácz had begun the paramount task of preparing the Dendrological Atlas; in the decades that followed, both traveled to nearly every corner of the temperate climate zone to study and document trees and shrubs.
On the morning of 10 October we drove south from Lake Pasum to Nyingchi, a busy city and administrative center on the banks of Nyang Chu, not far from its confluence with Yarlung Tsangpo, the main river of southern Tibet. Traveling to Nyingchi, we descended to about 3000 m. Our goal the following day was to reach Serkhyem La, a mountain pass northeast of the city, through which one of the few roads connecting Tibet with China was being built. Construction, taking place simultaneously on the entire stretch of the road between Nyingchi and Serkhyem La, slowed down our progress 44 Tibet’s Gorges and Mountain Passes Fruits of Malus rockii (02988) growing in the valley of Parlung Tsangpo.
Corbett and de Vos also made some purchases in a seed house of G. Ghose and Sons in Darjeeling, which turned out to be fairly well stocked with The expedition’s porters in Palmajua. Photo by Edward G. Corbett. seeds of local plants. Unfortunately, the monsoon was settling over Darjeeling and the Singalila Ridge for good. The explorers decided to prepare for departure. On 26 May the expedition left Darjeeling to return to the United States by way of Bagdogra, Calcutta, and Delhi. “Although we were disappointed that we did not get permission to enter Nepal or Sikkim we were quite pleased with the collections that we made,” said de Vos (1965e).