PAVIA – How is flax fiber produced? What is a carnivorous plant made of? These and other botanical curiosities will be at the center of the XXI edition of the Summer Solstice Festival which will take place Friday 21 June 2024, from 5.30pm to 8.00pm to the Kosmos Museum of the University of Pavia.
A special opportunity to get closer to biodiversity issues organized by Lombardy Botanical Gardens Network as part of the SVING – Scienza Viva in Giardino project (https://www.reteortibotanicilombardia.it/2024/02/22/sving-scienza-viva-in-giardino/).
Also the Botanical Garden of the University of Pavia participates in the project but, not being able to open its living collections due to the renovation works foreseen by the PNRR, it sets up a special section that can be visited at Kosmos – Museum of Natural History, where 6 didactic botanical models from the 19th century are on display, selected from the 150 that make up the entire historical collection of the University of Pavia: Linum usotatissimum, Aconitum napellus, Dionea muscipula, Taxus baccata, Linaria vulgaris, Equisetum.
These are six botanical species that represent biodiversity well and were chosen both for their peculiar characteristics and for the beauty of the models. They will be the absolute protagonists of the event: botanical-themed insights, historical, literary and artistic digressions and finally an interactive station on the flax plant where it will be possible to experiment with the extraction of the fiber and discover the secrets of an extraordinary plant.
Information on the Botanical Garden website (https://ortobotanico.unipv.eu/). Free entry.
