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Ο ΒΒΚΚ ολοκληρώνεται ως έργο. Τι κατάφερε όμως στα λίγα χρονια "πειραματικής" λειτουργίας του; Θα το κατανοήσουμε μόνον αν τον δούμε μέσα από τα μάτια αυτών που έχουν τους Βοτανικούς Κήπους στον πολιτισμό τους εδώ και 400 χρόνια τουλάχιστον! Θα παραθέσουμε κείμενά τους που αναφέρονται στο ΒΒΚΚ με αφορμή τις ποικίλες δράσεις του. Send Your Greek Plants
The BBGK is calling on all botanic gardens and other institutions in Europe that are dealing with living plant collections to check their databases and plant records for well documented plant material that was originally collected in the wild in Greece and/or the Balkans.
The aim is to repatriate native plants, especially those that are single-mountain or single-area endemic plants, regional endemics, Greek endemics, local Balkan endemics and Balkan (sub-) endemics with scattered distribution, as well as other rare, vulnerable, threatened and/or endangered plants native to Greece and/or the Balkans (IPS). Secondly, the call concerns native plant species of Greece and/or the Balkans with potential ornamental and/or medicinal value.
Repatriation Procedure
Plant materials that may be candidates for repatriation must have been originally collected in the wild of Greece and/or the Balkans, and must have good documentation, including accession number (preferably IPEN), taxonomic identification (at least Family and Genus), country, region and location (obligatory), as well as altitude, original habitat and/or geographical coordinates (optional). Plant material requested here may include bulbs, corms, rhizomes, ripe seeds and/or softwood cuttings.
For the repatriation procedure, European botanic gardens and institutes are kindly asked to inform BBGK for their intensions before sending any plant material. At the repatriation of the plant material to BBGK, an official letter of the sender botanic garden or institute should be included, signed by the Director, the Curator or the Plant Records Officer of the sender garden or by the Responsible of the sender institution. Plant propagation material may be sent either by standard procedures of plant exchange between botanic gardens (if softwood cuttings are included, an express-mail should be preferred; BBGK may cover the expenses, if asked in advance).
Further Information
Eleni Maloupa, Laboratory of Conservation and Evaluation of the Native and Floricultural species-Balkan Botanic Garden of Kroussia, National Agricultural Research Foundation, P.O. Box 60125, GR-570 01, Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece (
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Nikolaos Krigas, Laboratory of Systematic Botany & Phytogeography, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124, Thessaloniki, Greece (
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* Are there any Greek plants in your Garden?
* Read BBGK's Paper calling for repatriation (Word doc 72kb), presented at the Planta Europa conference in October |
