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Southeastern Community College and Lake Waccamaw
Saturday, March 26, 2011What a day! First we started off on the campus of SCC in Whiteville to tour the micro-propagation facility headed by Rebecca Westbrooks (what a treat!), then it was off to Lake Waccamaw for a lecture on invasive species given by Randy Westbrooks, and then a walk along the boardwalk at Lake Waccamaw with Ranger Chris Helms.
The pristine lab of Rebecca Westbrooks
plants can be cultured from roots, leaves or shoots depending on the plant
Baby Flytraps!
Carrots too!
A tissue culture success!
The Nursery
That's a sundew?!
Heading out on the trail at Lake Waccamaw
Bluebird at home
Lovely native azalea, and fragrant too!
Rhododendron atlanticum
Sassafras with new leaves
Sassafras albidum
Stubborn fern
Netted chainfern
Woodwardia areolata
Turkey Oak with new leaves and flowers
Quercus laevis
Red Maples
if there was ever any doubt as to why they are called red maples...
Acer Rubrum
Spring has definitely sprung!
Redbay, Persea palustris
Chokecherry
Wild Olive
Osmanthus americana
Bald cypress
Taxodium distichum
Prickly-pear cactus in a recently controlled burn area
Opuntia compressa
Water-lilly
Nymphaea odorata
Esther spots a gator at Lake Waccamaw
Thanks to everyone who made this trip possible—Special thanks to Rebecca and Randy Westbrooks for sharing their contributions to the Whiteville area and beyond and informing us about the management of invasive species! For more info see Southeast Exotic Pest-Plant Council.
Ranger Chris made our walk along the boardwalk at LWSP thoroughly enjoyable and informative! Visit Lake Waccamaw S.P.
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