Re: disappearing Angophora costata
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: disappearing Angophora costata
- From: J* A*
- Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 17:21:04 +1000
At 13:47 Monday 7/08/00 +1000, I wrote:
>The genus Angophora has always (well, as far back as I remember) been
>separate from the genus Eucalyptus. You may recall that a couple of years
>ago, the splitters got busy and chopped Eucalyptus into three or four
>different genera. Well, a few months ago the lumpers struck back, so
>Eucalyptus now not only contains all it did before, but has also swallowed
>Angophora.
Which maybe justifies the title of this thread, even if the trees
themselves survive.
> So I guess it's now Eucalyptus costata, at least for the moment.
Whoops! That should be E costatus, shouldn't it?
>Of the many (at least 20?) species of Angophora ("apple gums"), all
>(AFAIK) have the same interesting twisted form, but almost all have rough
>bark rather than the smooth shiny bark of costata, with its beautiful
>colouring, especially when the old bark has just been spread.
I meant to write "shed", not "spread", of course. Though it does "spread"
out on the ground all around the tree too of course.
"Australia: land of songless birds and scentless flowers; where the trees
all shed their bark and not their leaves, ..." (Homesick plaint by the
original whingeing pom, a couple of hundred years ago)
John.
