CULTURE – 12
How to
Drink Tea
An
Ancient Art
EMERGING TECHNOLOGY – 04
The Real Artificial
Educating for Our Times
SPORTS LAW – 08
Games People Play
The New Fine Print
The National Herbarium
is marking two
centuries with a series of activities planned for
this year.
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley
has recently made it clear that the Double
Chaconia
(Warszewiczia coccinea var. David
Auyoung)
is the national flower and will be
planted in all schools across the nation.
It is a shrub or small tree, whose habitat is
Lower montane forest. It is a natural mutant
discovered in Trinidad in 1957 and now exists
only in cultivation. The parent plant found on
the Blanchisseuse Road was destroyed with the
widening of the road shortly after its discovery.
The National Herbarium will formally
launch its
200th anniversary celebrations
on
May 22, 2018 with a tree-planting ceremony at
the St. Augustine Campus where the collection
is housed under the stewardship of curator,
Yasmin Baksh-Comeau
.
Among the activities planned is the
collaboration with a re-afforestation project to
take place in the hillside of Tunapuna, where
200 trees will be put to earth between
Hillview
College, the Biodiversity Society at The UWI
and the Herbarium.
The trees will form part of the promotion
of greening the urban landscaping as part of
‘our green heritage’ and to become a part of the
Virtual Campus Arboretum
on the website
at
as soon
as it is launched. Look out for more on the
celebratory activities in our next issue.
(see Page 14)
PHOTOS COURTESY THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM
Double
Chaconia
IDENTITY – 07
Cracks in the Edifice
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Double
Century
