Next Gymnocalycium events:
- 6th Gymno-Day - 27-29 July 2012, Preliminary Programme
Carmagnola, Italy
Contact: Massimo Meregalli
Programme
Friday 27 July 2012
from 12 a.m.: Meeting of participants at the cactus nursery:
Milena Audisio, Via Casalgrasso 1, Carmagnola (Turin, Italy)
18:00 Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Via San Francesco di Sales, 188, Carmagnola. Graham Charles: Cactaceae of Brasil
21:00 Dinner at the restaurant "Due Citroni", Casalgrasso.
Saturday 28 July 2012
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Via San Francesco di Sales, 188, Carmagnola.
09:00 Massimo Meregalli: Remarks on Gymnocalycium meregallii Bercht, 2012: distribution, variability and possible affinities.
10:00 Wolfgang Papsch: Gymnocalycium (Scabrosemineum) from Sierra de Mazan, Sierra de Velasco and surrounding areas. Literature survey.
11:00 WORKSHOP. The Gymnocalycium (Scabrosemineum) of the G. hossei / G. catamarcense group. Part II. Sierra de Mazan and Sierra de Velasco .
12:00 Lunch at the restaurant below the Museum.
14:00 WORKSHOP - continued. Common discussion and proposals for a taxonomic rearrangement of the group.
18:00 (If there is time enough: travelogue or lecture, still to be decided).
20:30 Dinner at the restaurant "Due Citroni", Casalgrasso.
Sunday 29 July 2012
09:00 Free day for visiting Milena Audisio's nursery and Massimo Meregalli's collection.
- International Gymnocalycium Symposium 31.08.-02.09.2012
Radebeul near Dresden, Germany
Contact: Volker Schädlich
28th International Gymnocalycium Meeting
Topic: The relatives of Gymnocalycium prochazkianum.
Program
Friday, 31st August 2012
19:30 Reception of the participants by Ludwig Bercht and Volker Schädlich.
20:00 Thomas Strub: "Travalogue Argentina 2011".
Saturday, 1st September 2012
09:00 Introduction to the subject of the conference "The relatives of Gymnocalycium prochazkianum" by Thomas Strub and Mario Wick.
10:00 Contributions to the subject by Helmut Amerhauser, Franz Berger, Gert Neuhuber, Massimo Meregalli and Wolfgang Papsch.
12:30 Lunch.
14:00 Further continuation to the subject of the conference.
15:00 Ludwig Bercht: "Flower and spine variety of the red-flowering species of the seed group Gymnocalycium".
16:00 Reiner Sperling: "Morphology of seedlings of the genus Gymnocalycium".
18:00 Dinner.
19:30 Barbara Ditsch: "On Darwin's trail: travel impressions from the Galapagos Islands".
Sunday, 2nd September 2012
09:00 Reinhardt Müller: "Chile and its cacti".
11:00 Summary of the Symposium.
11:30 End of the Symposium.
Location of the meeting: Hotel Goldener Anker, Altkötzschenbroda Nr. 61, DE 01445 Radebeul, Tel.: +4935183990100, Goldener Anker, Radebeul.
Registration (not later than 31.05.2012): Volker Schädlich, Bergstraße 1, DE 03130 Spremberg, email: Volker Schädlich.
