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- Третий день пьем здоровье Вашего Величества!
- Пора бы уже и остановиться!
Из истории
Чтобы на меня не обиделась соседняя Малайзия, третий день поздравлений завершаем мощным аккордом - ее национальным цветком гибискусом…
Под катом еще десять его фото, но сначала посмотрите вот это и вот это.
К сожалению, во второй фотоленте, посвященной орхидеям Индонезии, при редактуре в Москве выпали подпись и многие комментарии, подготовленные замечательным биологом paramoribo, однако с ними (и некоторыми другими фото) можно ознакомиться вот здесь.
А теперь можно вернуться и к гибискусу:
UPD: офтоп по орхидеям: SINGAPORE, April 20 (Reuters) - Singapore's Botanic Gardens
is developing an orchid seed bank and a section devoted to
healing plants, as it looks to help conserve Southeast Asian
species threatened by development and climate change.
The seed bank, in its early stages and part of a global
project, will keep alive dust-like orchid seeds by chilling
them in liquid nitrogen.
"It's a race against time to document botanical treasures
in this part of the world," said Chin See Chung, director of
the Botanic Gardens, in an interview. "Habitat loss is going on
at a rapid rate."
The Orchid Seed Stores for Sustainable Use project aims to
collect and store seeds from orchid hot spots in Asia and Latin
America, hoping to have 1,000 species stored by 2015. This is
still a fraction of around 25,000 known orchid species.
There is a multi-billion-dollar global trade in orchids,
the largest flowering plant species. Most commercially sold
orchids are grown in nurseries but wild species are threatened
by habitat loss and smuggling.
Singapore's Botanic Gardens pioneered orchid hybridisation
in the 19th century. The tropical city-state exports over S$20
million worth ($13 million) of orchids a year, and in 2006 had
around 15 percent of the world market for cut flowers.
The Gardens, 150 years old, started off focusing on
commercial crops, leading to the spread of rubber across
Southeast Asia, before switching to botanical research.
"The problem with research is it's slow and time consuming
... it's daunting," Chin said, adding there were not enough
botanists, with biologists now going into more high-profile
fields such as molecular biology and genetics.
Chin, who has a Ph.D from Yale in the traditional use of
forests on the island of Borneo, saw future commercial growth
potential for health food or medicinal plant products, as
scientists look for cures to diseases such as cancer and AIDS.
But he said medicinal plants and information about them are
at risk of being lost, leading the Gardens to start work on a
"healing garden" that will hold 700 regional species by 2011.
Collectively, botanic gardens around the world hold around
100,000 plant species, a third of the total, Chin said.
But the financial crisis is threatening the Millenium Seed
Bank Project, which aims to house all species to ensure future
biodiversity.
($1 = 1.500 Singapore dollar)
- Пора бы уже и остановиться!
Из истории
Чтобы на меня не обиделась соседняя Малайзия, третий день поздравлений завершаем мощным аккордом - ее национальным цветком гибискусом…
Под катом еще десять его фото, но сначала посмотрите вот это и вот это.
К сожалению, во второй фотоленте, посвященной орхидеям Индонезии, при редактуре в Москве выпали подпись и многие комментарии, подготовленные замечательным биологом paramoribo, однако с ними (и некоторыми другими фото) можно ознакомиться вот здесь.
А теперь можно вернуться и к гибискусу:
UPD: офтоп по орхидеям: SINGAPORE, April 20 (Reuters) - Singapore's Botanic Gardens
is developing an orchid seed bank and a section devoted to
healing plants, as it looks to help conserve Southeast Asian
species threatened by development and climate change.
The seed bank, in its early stages and part of a global
project, will keep alive dust-like orchid seeds by chilling
them in liquid nitrogen.
"It's a race against time to document botanical treasures
in this part of the world," said Chin See Chung, director of
the Botanic Gardens, in an interview. "Habitat loss is going on
at a rapid rate."
The Orchid Seed Stores for Sustainable Use project aims to
collect and store seeds from orchid hot spots in Asia and Latin
America, hoping to have 1,000 species stored by 2015. This is
still a fraction of around 25,000 known orchid species.
There is a multi-billion-dollar global trade in orchids,
the largest flowering plant species. Most commercially sold
orchids are grown in nurseries but wild species are threatened
by habitat loss and smuggling.
Singapore's Botanic Gardens pioneered orchid hybridisation
in the 19th century. The tropical city-state exports over S$20
million worth ($13 million) of orchids a year, and in 2006 had
around 15 percent of the world market for cut flowers.
The Gardens, 150 years old, started off focusing on
commercial crops, leading to the spread of rubber across
Southeast Asia, before switching to botanical research.
"The problem with research is it's slow and time consuming
... it's daunting," Chin said, adding there were not enough
botanists, with biologists now going into more high-profile
fields such as molecular biology and genetics.
Chin, who has a Ph.D from Yale in the traditional use of
forests on the island of Borneo, saw future commercial growth
potential for health food or medicinal plant products, as
scientists look for cures to diseases such as cancer and AIDS.
But he said medicinal plants and information about them are
at risk of being lost, leading the Gardens to start work on a
"healing garden" that will hold 700 regional species by 2011.
Collectively, botanic gardens around the world hold around
100,000 plant species, a third of the total, Chin said.
But the financial crisis is threatening the Millenium Seed
Bank Project, which aims to house all species to ensure future
biodiversity.
($1 = 1.500 Singapore dollar)