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Peter S. White, Ph.D.
Peter S. White, Ph.D.

Peter White is professor of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of the North Carolina Botanical Garden, a regional center for research, conservation, and interpretation of native plants. "The North Carolina Botanical Garden proclaims the importance of plant diversity and conservation."

Speech Topics:

· From the Appalachians to the Coastal Plain: North Carolina's Rich Wildflowers and Ecology

· Invasive Plants, Horticulture, and Conservation Gardening

· The Conservation Garden

· Venus Fly Trap and Other Stories of North Carolina's Unique Plants

· A Natural History of Robert Frost

· The Bartrams and Quaker Botany

· Teeming with Life: The All Taxa Biological Inventory in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

"Darwin called the Venus Fly Trap, native to only eleven counties in North and South Carolina and found nowhere else on earth, the 'most wonderful plant in the world.' In fact, the sandy, nutrient-poor soils of the Southeastern coastal plain support the world's richest center of unique carnivorous plants."

Peter S. White, Biology


Links:

· http://www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/white/

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