Name: Botanical Insights talk - From Ground Level to Treetops
Start: 2026-05-20T02:15:00+12:00
End: 2026-05-20T03:15:00+12:00
Location: 101 Glenmore Street, Wellington, New Zealand 6012

Botanical Insights talk - From Ground Level to Treetops

This talk will take us on a journey through familiar botanical surroundings, starting with the primitive mosses and liverworts then traversing the plant life that evolved later. We will also take a peek en route at fungi and lichens and their important roles in the ecosystem, and look at how tall trees seem to defy the laws of physics in pulling water to their tops.
Located (update) it will now be in the Learning Pavilion in the Discovery Garden, Wellington Botanic Garden ki Paekākā.
Free of charge. You’re welcome to bring along your own ‘brown bag’ lunch to enjoy during the talk.
The speaker is Reg Harris, a volunteer guide [botany] at Wellington Botanic Garden.
Reg delivers botany lectures for diverse audiences, delving into plant interactions, adaptive radiation, tropisms, and more. As a dedicated volunteer guide at Wellington Botanic Garden (WBG), he pioneered collaborations between WBG and Victoria University, organising annual field labs for biology students.