Medicinal Plants at the Arnold Arboretum: An Exploration of the Wild and Cultivated Remedies Growing Beneath our Feet

Date: 

Saturday, September 29, 2018, 1:00pm to 2:30pm

Location: 

Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

Many plants that we consider to be weeds have rich ethnobotanical histories of their own that tie us closer to our environment. Your guides will explain how these "weedy" plants came to colonize this area while touching on cultural contexts and botanical identification of these wild species—as well as the cultivated medicinal species in the Leventritt Shrub and Vine Garden. Guides: John de la Parra, Associate, Harvard University Herbaria; Ernest Anemone, Co-Guide; Federico Toro Uribe, Arboretum Docent.

 

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