EXPEDITION LA PERUGIA: RETURN OF SEEDS TO BREST

NEWS HISTORY - With more than two centuries late, seeds collected during the scientific expedition of La Perouse eventually reached Brest. Found in the waters of Vanikoro, where the Astrolabe and the Boussole, the two ships of the mission, had a tragic end, they were entrusted to the Botanical Conservatory. These banksias seeds, harvested at Botany Bay in Australia in 1788, have in principle a longevity of about 35 years. But researchers from the conservatoire, together with other specialists in plant biology, want to take up the challenge and find a way to make them germinate. As the botanist of the expedition would have done.