Every year each member chooses and adopts a species to study (SOS). During the year they give a report on this plant to the membership at one of the meetings. We also choose a plant for the branch to adopt and study. These are the plants that the members have chosen this year.

Branch: B. metallica

Ed Bates: B.valida

Janet Brown: B. opuliafolia / Brooks 113

Eleanor Caulkins: B. luzonensis

Inge Foo: B. velloziana

Julie Garfolo: B. cardiocarpa

Jim Jaeger: B. scharffiana

Marla Keith: B. conchifolia

Michael Ludwig: B. floccifera

Maureen O'Reilly: B. thiemei

Thelma O'Reilly: B. friburgensis

Ruth and Walter Pease: B. manicata

Dean Turney: B. sulcata