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Re: Eucalypts



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> From: Sean O'Hara <SAOUC@UCCMVSA.UCOP.EDU>
> To: Medit-Plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: Eucalypts
> Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 5:37 AM
> 
> >Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:35:10 GMT
> >Sender: owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> >From: dpsgkp@mail.telepac.pt (Graham Payne)
> >To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> >Subject: Re: Eucalypts
> >   <snip>
> > Your description of E. erythocorys sounds so good that I am going to try
> > growing it. Here in the Algarve in Portugal Eucalyptus grow well and I =
> > have
> > several species in my garden.  Unfortunately the local Portuguese farmers
> > are tearing up the wild hills that are covered in Cistus and many wild
> > flowers to plant E. globulus as a timber tree.
> >
> > Chiltern Seeds can be contacted by e-mail: 101344.1340@compuserve.com
> > ----  Graham Payne  ----  dpsgkp@mail.telepac.pt  ----
> 
> Graham -
>
<big snip>
 
>  But the
> indescriminant planting of the larger, timber types in open land
> seems very fool hardy to me, ultimately leading to the problems we
> have here in California.  Perhaps Portugal can take a lesson from
> our mistakes!
> 
>  Sean A. O'Hara                     sean.ohara@ucop.edu

I wonder if Graham might be mistaken (sorry graham!). At the Society for Growing
Australian Plants Conference in Sept. we had a very interesting lecture from
Prof. Sedgely from the hort. dept. at Uni. of Adelaide and she showed slide after
slide of australian plants being grown and developed overseas for markets we have
completely missed out on. Something like the macadamia story. Anyway, she showed
e. globulos (I think that's what it was) being grown in, um, coppiced plantations I think
would be the word. The trees were kept small and heavily pruned to encourage the
glaucous young growth which is prized by florists. In this situation I don't think it would
be such a fire hazard. 

just a thought.

Samantha
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