IUFRO meeting on frost-resistant eucalypts

IUFRO meeting on frost-resistant eucalypts

I attended this meeting in Carçans-Maubuisson in France 26 – 30 September 1983.155My attendance was mainly to join the week-long pre-meeting tour of eucalypt breeding activities in France and later meet up with my Co-chairmen of the IUFRO Working Party on Breeding Eucalypts (S2. 03. 10) to discuss progress on writing our book Eucalypt Domestication and Breeding. A notable event that took place during this meeting was that Australia II had just won the Americas Cup and Professor Pryor took up a collection among the Australians to shout a round of champagne in the dining room!

Co-chairmen of the IUFRO Working Party on Breeding Eucalypts (S2. 03. 10) at Carçans, France in 1983. From left: Me, Gerrit van Wyk (South Africa), Ken Eldridge (Australia) and Arno Brune (Brazil). We four were initially to be the authors of our book Eucalypt Domestication and Breeding but Arno later pulled out to be replaced by Chris Harwood (Australia).

155 See: Proceedings of the Colloque International sur les Eucalyptus résistants au froid, Carçans-Maubuisson, France, 26–30 September 1983. Nangis: AFOCEL.