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Cycad Day 2011
The Cycad
Society (TCS) has only one board meeting each year, and it is always
scheduled in a different part of the country (or occasionally a different
country). This year's board meeting was held on Friday, June 24, at
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden (FTBG) in Coral Gables, FL. Associated
with each board meeting, TCS also hosts a special "Cycad Day" event on the
Saturday following the board meeting. Cycad Day 2011
was held on Saturday, June 25, also at FTBG.
Open to TCS
members and non-members alike,
this year's event had a little bit of everything, for both the
serious collector as well as the beginning hobbyist. Click
here
to download a printable version (PDF) of the schedule.
Online
Presentation
Click here to view the presentation given by Jody Haynes entitled
“Taxonomical, Nomenclatural & Biogeographical Revelations in the
Zamia skinneri Species Complex in Panama.”
Membership, Auction & Raffle
This year's auction included rare and one-of-a-kind cycad plants, seeds, books, artwork,
color back issues of the Cycad Newsletter, and even a
140-million-year-old cycad fossil.
Click
here for a complete list of the items
that we offered up for auction.
In addition, a bonus for Cycad Day attendees was the raffle
of a Microcycas calocoma seedling. We have left the item
descriptions below so that visitors to this page can view the artwork
and fossil that were auctioned.
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Artwork |
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Two wonderful pieces by the world-renowned cycad artist and author, Douglas
Goode, were up for auction. In addition, a high-resolution print of
Zamia lindenii males cones was also auctioned off. Descriptions of each piece are provided below.
(Click the
underlined links to view the pieces.)
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"Visitor" (Encephalartos
friderici-guilielmi) - numbered print (41 of 75) - 23" x 19"
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Encephalartos ngoyanus - original watercolor (no prints made) - 15"
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11.75"
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Zamia lindenii Male
Cones - high-resolution print of front cover of December 2010
issue of Cycad Newsletter - 11" x 17"
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A one-of-a-kind cycad fossil (section of trunk), measuring
approximately 5" x 2-1/2" and 1/2" thick. It wa from Cerro Cuadrado,
Santa Cruz Province, Patagonia, Argentina. It is approximately 140
million yeas old and is late Jurassic or early Cretaceous in origin. Click the links below to see the two sides of the fossil:
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