Re(2): Eucalyptus, again

samantha@senet.com.au writes:
>The funny thing is that here in Australia we have miles and miles of
>pinus radiata plantations! P. radiata is from, you guessed it, the US!
>We grow it for cheap timber. Its very invasive. Perhaps we could do
>a big swap-a-roony. Our pines for your eucs.
>
>Samantha
>
>p.s. some eucalyptus species make very good fire wood.
>

Actually P. radiata is native here in monterey. It blankets the hills and
makes Monterey look all piney and nice =). Also you would be hard pressed
to find anyone here who would want the pines logged. Theyre fairly rare
here and are mostly decorative (in Carmel you have to have a permit to
remove ANY tree, and that is hard to obtain. In fact, one road splits to
go around a P. radiata!)
 There are some Eucs that are quite nice (some with vey willow like leaves
and weeping habits are beautiful). But a lot of them are notoriously
brittle and i remember seeing a couple split right in half by the wind
storm here a couple of weeks ago.




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