SFPS General Meeting, June 9, 2025, “My Trip to Mauritius in 2023: How My Travels with the IPS to the Indian Ocean led me to one of the Greatest Botanical Gardens in the World,” by Laz Priegues. (Summarized by Lenny Goldstein).
A power outage delayed the June 2 SFPS meeting, but we held it a week later, and, as usual, Laz Priegues presented a great travelogue. His subject this time was “My Trip to Mauritius in 2023: How My Travels with the IPS to the Indian Ocean Led Me to One of the Greatest Botanical Gardens in the World.” If you had been in attendance, you would have learned how Pamplemousses garden (or the SSR Botanic Garden) came to be named after . . . grapefruits. The garden, which dates back to 1770, is not small — 91 acres — but Laz conducted a thorough tour of its outstanding features.
See https://ssrbg.govmu.org/ssrbg/ for more on the Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanic Garden
Dr. Laz Priegues is medical internist and a Director on both the SFPS and International Palm Society Board.
Following the program, we held our auction, and our generous donors brought a wide variety of interesting plants. Here’s the detail:
Alocasia portei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bob and Peck Pope
Anthurium faustomirandae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bob and Peck Pope
Carpoxylon macrospermum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Lord
Coccothrinax argentata (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dennis Lyt
Coccothrinax fragrans (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Montgomery Botanical Center
Coccothrinax sp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Montgomery Botanical Center
Colocasia esculenta ‘Nancy’s Revenge’ . . . . . . Bob and Peck Pope
Pritchardia thurstonii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paulette Johnson
In addition, we gave away palm seeds of the following species, donated by Montgomery Botanical Center: Aiphanes minima and Pritchardia pacifica.
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