Studia botanica hungarica

Author(s): Rácz, I.
Title: Garden, culture, dendrology – remarks and thoughts following the unexpected passing away of Géza Kósa
Title: Kert, kultúra, dendrológia – emlékek, gondolatok Kósa Géza váratlan halála nyomán
Year: 2021
Volume: 52
Pages: 89-114.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17110/StudBot.2021.52.2.89

Abstract: This writing commemorates Géza Kósa (1950–2021), dendrologist and Curator of the Botanical Garden of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (recently renamed the National Botanic Garden) and discusses his 45-year cooperation with both his institute and the Hungarian Natural History Museum’s team of dendrologists (Zsolt Debreczy, Gyöngyvér Biró, István Rácz and co-workers) and their International Dendrological Research Institute, Inc. (IDRI) in the US and its sister organisation in Hungary, the International Dendrological Foundation. The author recalls many aspects of cooperation with Géza Kósa, including some of their joint research trips to Mongolia, China, Uzbekistan, and Sikkim, as well as the multi-year documentation of the living dendrological collection at Vácrátót. Also discussed is the great need to establish a regional dendrological institute in Hungary.
Keywords: Hungary, China, Mongolia, dendrology, memories, Sikkim, Uzbekistan, Vácrátót
Subject: botany, in memoriam

Journal: Studia botanica hungarica
Journal abbreviation: Studia bot. hung.
ISSN: 0301-7001
Publisher: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest
Editor(s): Lőkös, L.