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FRBC 2025 Trip to Northeast India
From Gak to Yak Webinar

Saturday, December 13, 2025
10:00am - 12:00pm PST

Webinar presentation by FRBC Founding Directors Kelly Dodson and Sue Milliken along with Collections Manager Silas Zoeller.

Join Sue, Kelly, and Silas on their pictorial adventure to the Himalayan plant paradise of Arunachal Pradesh in Northeast India! The webinar will retrace their July 2025 journey from the tropics all the way to the high alpine zone at over 14000' of altitude. Their discussion of what makes this an incredibly diverse and fascinating area from both a botanical and cultural perspective will feature images and stories of incredible temples and mountains as well as 8 species of Meconopsis (Blue Poppy), including Meconopsis gakyidiana, and many more outstanding botanical rarities. To be recorded for later viewing.

Suggested donation is $12, all are welcome.

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July 2025 Trip to Northeast India

This summer Sue and Kelly were joined by our Collections Manager Silas Zoeller to visit a remote portion of the Himalaya in Arunachal Pradesh near Tibet and Bhutan. They botanized at 14000' looking at a myriad of plants such as Primula, Sausserea, Gentiana, and 8 species of Meconopsis (Blue Poppy), 7 of which were in flower. The purpose of the trip was two-fold: to assess the environmental changes since Kelly and Sue last were there in 2003; and to provide crucial field training for Silas. As part of our networking, relationship building, and educational commitment, we invited two younger botanists involved with botanic gardens in Scotland, and the inimitable Argentine alpine plant botanist, Marcela Ferreyra, who also joined the tour. Besides recording many of the plants they found at their iNaturalist Journal, Silas has written a report serialized in the FRBC Newsletter: 

 Adventure in Arunachal (part 1) 

 Adventure in Arunachal (part 2) 

 Adventure in Arunachal (part 3 ) 

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