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Re: Araucaria heterophylla

At 08:51 PM 4/7/98 -0800, you wrote:
>I think perhaps the reason they survive here in Monterey is due to the
>constant breezes that keep our air pollution down to a minimum. 
>Monterey has many tourists and if it were in a situation like Mexico
>city, the trees would die.

Barry:

They can get quite large in Mexico.  I went plant collecting about ten years
ago with Manuel Flores through the north-central states, including
Queretero.  We had to go to a map store near the local university in
downtown Queretero City, and on our way in, I saw two huge trees dwarfing
most of the buildings (none over 5 stories high) about 5 - 10 city blocks
ahead.  `Is that what I think it is?', I said to Manuel, `They look like
they are over 100 feet tall!'.  Said he, `Yes, that's Norfolk Island pine'.
Queretero City, with over 100,000 people, didn't have any heavy industry at
the time that I could tell.

Rich Dufresne
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