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celebrities and cycads
I am sitting here reading the most recent postings on cycads, and
listening to public radio. Coicidentally, cycads are the topic on the
radio. Not a gardening show, but rather the broadcast
of an onstage interview with neurologist-MD-author Oliver Sacks
(_Awakenings_, _The man who mistook his wife for a hat_, and several other
fascinating books).
As it turns out, Sacks is a cycad enthusiast, and likes lots of
other primitive plants. His latest books is based on research into a
community of color blind people living on an island in the South Pacific.
He had studied botany in his early college years, and this trip rekindled
his interest in cycads, which he saw growing as a native plant to the
region. Although I can't see over the radio, he is sitting next to a
small cycad plant onstage, I am told.
As a nearly constant public radio listener, I have heard him
interviewed many times, and in another recent interview which touched on
his love for plants, he mentioned being enthralled by a part of our Golden
Gate Park. It is a little garden or tall tree ferns underplanted with
lower growing ferns and other plants. It really does have a "prehistoric"
feel to it, and it was neat to hear of a celebrity appreciating and
enjoying it.
Just thought I'd share. Oh, by the way, he apparently discusses
the cycads a little in his current book (_The island of the color blind_,
I think it's called).
Keith Dabney
San Francisco
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