Kingsley Dixon is a botanist, and is this year’s Western Australian Scientist of the Year.
Mr Dixon will visit Mandurah to present Urban trees a place for Australian natives, organised by the Mandurah Tree Advocates.
Australian trees are often overlooked in consideration of urban tree plantings, and Mr Dixon will use examples from Kings Park and beyond to show how important native trees are for our sense of place, native animals and our national identity.
Mr Dixon is best known for his discovery of the chemical in smoke that germinates Australian plants, and promoting Western Australian plants in David Attenborough’s 2001 BBC series, The Private Life of Plants.
He was the founding science director at Kings Park and Botanic Gardens for 32 years, and has been Curtin Professor there since 2015.
The talk will be held at the Tuckey Room, 83 Mandurah Terrace in Mandurah at 5pm on Friday November 11.
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