Case Studies: A Story of Plant Travel
Waikereru is featuring in another new book, this time Case Studies: A Story of Plant Travel, a glorious study of the role of Wardian cases in shifting plants around the world. Our Chair Anne Salmond has contributed a chapter about the botanical collecting in Tairāwhiti by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on board the Endeavour in 1769, and how this inspired a collective effort involving Anne and Jeremy, Philip Smith, Malcolm Rutherford, Graeme Atkins and Sarosh Mulla to create a safe haven for many of these plants, now rare and endangered, in the 1769 Seed Archive at Waikereru.
Dr John Craig and Anne Stewart with Malcolm Rutherford, inspecting the stone mounds with their rare Tairawhiti plants:
