Chenshan Botanical Garden will hold a third popular science forum on June 15, following the successful forums in 2011 and 2012.

Ma Jinshuang, a researcher at Chenshan Plant Science Research Center, will give a lecture titled 'Discovery and Cultivation of the Metasequoia'. The lecture will take the audience to the Cretaceous period to explore the legend of the discovery of the Metasequoia (dawn redwood).

Date: June 15, 9:30-11:30 am

Place: Auditorium of Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Tel: (021) 37792288*912

By Huang Pei

Edited by Niva Whyman