RE: [The Seed Exchange] - Scarifying seeds with a dremel tool
- To: "Randall, Rod" , "'B*@monterey.edu'"
- Subject: RE: [The Seed Exchange] - Scarifying seeds with a dremel tool
- From: R* R*
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:26:59 +0800
thats for sure Barry,
I remember a road put through a paddock
in the wheatbelt that had been there for over 80 years.
Soon after the road was built all along the side popped up dozens
of Davesia euphorbioides plants from seed that had sat around all that
time. The only reason I knew for sure is because this plant
is a rare and endangered species and I looked into how they
came to be there, asking the farmer and the council that built the road.
Rod
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> From: Barry_Garcia@monterey.edu
> Sent: Friday, 27 August 1999 9:56 AM
> To: rprandall@agric.wa.gov.au
> Cc: jshowers@epix.net; medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: Re: RE: [The Seed Exchange] - Scarifying seeds with a dremel
> tool
>
> rprandall@agric.wa.gov.au writes:
> >Only heat, scarification or just
> >plain old time and biodegradation
> >breaks down this coat.
>
> Is this perhaps why when they do roadwork, often a lot of legumes will
> come up? I noticed locally in all of the areas where they have disturbed
> the soil, there were lots more plants than in the undisturbed soils.
>
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