Journal of the Australian Native Plants Society Canberra region (Inc)

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3,000 of our Vascular Native Plants have no Public Photo Available

By Stephen Saunders

Jun, 2023

ANPSC Members Meeting, May 2023
“Say ‘cheese-tree’, Australia’s vascular plant photographic record”
With speaker Tom Mesaglio

As a stats grad and botany fan, I warmed to Tom
Mesaglio’s ar8cle in The Conversa,on: “Thousands
of our na,ve plants have no public photographs
available.”
Would he care to talk to us? Sure. As it happened,
Friends of ANBG were already on to him. If we
postponed our own member mee8ng, Tom could
do two shows in the one day. Our evening
aKendance equalled the ma8nee. Including
younger members. Who understood Tom’s
technological adapta8ons, a lot beKer than I did.

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