The Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden (RSBG) invites you to our next webinar on February 20, 2025, at 6 p.m. PST with a special guest speaker. Amami, in the Ryukyu Islands, is one of four islands that make up Japan’s latest UNESCO World Heritage Site. According to the United Nations agency, the site contains the richest biota in Japan, one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots.

Join Horticulturist and Educator at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Douglas Justice, as he discusses how he was part of an international team of Acer researchers who visited the island in March 2024. There, they undertook the first comprehensive population survey of Acer amamiense, an endemic species and the world’s rarest maple.

Price: $15 for RSBG members | $25 for non-members

Registration closes on February 18, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. PST.

You do not need a PayPal account to complete your payment – see more details below

Can’t make it to the live Zoom webinar? Don’t worry! You can still register and submit a payment for the event, and a link to the recording will be sent directly to you! Please include a comment in your registration form letting us know.

Please read:
  • When you register for the webinar, you will receive an email confirming your pending reservation for the webinar. Next, you must complete your payment to secure your spot. Note: Please ensure you input an email where you’d like the link and recording sent to (email used during registration will be sent the link).
    • You can pay with a credit card/VISA on PayPal (you do not need a PayPal account) – click the button “Pay via PayPal” > click “Pay with Debit or Credit Card” > Check out as a Guest by entering your email address > enter your payment information > ensure the toggle is off towards the bottom of the screen to pay as a guest.
  • On the morning of the scheduled webinar, you will receive an email from RSBG staff with a link to the Zoom webinar and further instructions on how to join.

How to Join the Meeting

  • Please note that you do not need a Zoom account to attend the lecture. However, you will be required to download Zoom software on your device. There are two ways to do this:
    Visit Zoom.us and find the “RESOURCES” drop-down menu at the very top of the webpage. Hover your mouse over the arrow next to “RESOURCES” and select “Download Zoom Client” from the drop-down menu. Select the first download button on this page labeled “Zoom Client for Meetings.”

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  • Click on the lecture link, which will be emailed to you. The link will prompt you to download the software.
  • You do not need a webcam or a microphone to participate; you will need a device with speakers to hear the lecture.
  • All Zoom registrants will be muted during the lecture. We will take questions in the chat functions and answer them in a Q&A session at the end of the presentation.

 

About Douglas Justice

Douglas Justice oversees and instructs in UBC Botanical Garden’s Horticulture Training Program, teaches in Landscape Architecture at UBC and has been curating the living collections and managing horticulture at the Botanical Garden and Nitobe Memorial Garden in Vancouver since 2000. A self-described plant fanatic—an inheritance from his equally-plant-obsessed father—Douglas sees the beauty in all kinds of plants. He plans on returning to Japan for more maple research and is working to complete a treatise on the woody garden flora of Vancouver.

 

 

 

Questions? Email us at info@RhodyGarden.org.

February Webinar: Endangered Maples in Southern Japan

February 20, 2025
Thursday
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

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