RE: Request of help on some australian plants

Hi Alessandra,

I'm afraid your email came in late on Friday so everyone else got a go at
answering over the weekend. The only questions that didn't seem to get
answered was the 'sweet plum' and the 'red and white' apple tree?
sorry can't be of more help than the others here, not enough information and
perhaps the author just didn't quite get their sources right??  happens
sometimes...

I was awestruck by my first sight of the mountain ash (E. regnans) , they
just go straight up and up and up, fantastic trees!

Barramundi, or 'barra' if you like fishing, are a great sportfish, they jump
right out of the water and fight and fight but you have to reel em in
reasonably fast. The reason they fight so hard is ( I reckon anyway) the
salt water crocs will get em if they don't get away. 
Many a 'huge barra' has been lost to crocs, at least thats what the
fisherman will claim  :-)

I like the claim that the sundews 'find their food in the air', almost true
I guess, in that it usually flys in in the form of tiny insects...  but yes
Drosera spp.
are commonly called sundews and can be either flat teardrop shaped leaves in
a rosette or long climbing tendrils, with tiny cup shaped leaves edged with
sticky drops,  twining through the grasses or low herbs and  intermediate
types as well. 
Very attractive little plants with papery pink, white or yellow flowers in
little clusters.  They look stunning in early morning with the sun shining
through 1000's of  sticky droplets of hundreds of twining sundews, a rainbow
of golds and yellows shimmering in the breeze.

I've run out of lyric wax now,  better get back to work   ;-)

cheers, rod

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Rod Randall
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> ----------
> From: 	Alessandra Vinciguerra and Cristina Puglisi
> Reply To: 	puglisi@librs6k.vatlib.it
> Sent: 	Friday, 29 January 1999 10:15 PM
> To: 	medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: 	Request of help on some australian plants
> 
> Hi, to everybody. I was wondering if any of the list members from
> Australia
> could help me with some  plant names.
> It's almost a follow up to the recent discussion, and it shows how hard it
> can be to understand a text when common names are used. 
> I am translating a text about Australian nature, but I find that the
> reference to plants are a little tricky.  it appears that the common names
> used, even when they read like the English ones, refer to different plants
> than in Europe. Of course my vocabularies can't be of help, they never
> refer
> to Australian English.
> To start with -what's a Billabong? Is it marsh, or dry land? What would be
> its vegetation?
> And these are the plants: 
> Snow gum -I guess this is an Eucalyptus -which one?
> Marsh marigold - in England this would be Caltha palustris -is it over
> there
> as well?
> Mountain ash -this really puzzles me, because in the following page the
> text
> states thet it leaves contain Eucalyptol. Therefore it can't be neither
> Fraxinus sp., nor Sorbus sp.  It must be another Eucalyptus. 
> Sundew plants - I gather it is an epyphite palnt -it says they find their
> food in the air. No idea.
> Paperbark -can't be a maple, I guess. Suppose it's another Eucalyptus,
> isn't it?
> Sweet plum - is this a real plum (Prunus dulcis) or do you have another
> plant that's called like this?
> Barramundi - I can't understand if this is a plant or an animal - a fish
> perhaps
> White and red apple tree - again, would this be  real Malus sp, maybe
> domestica?
> 
> Thank you very much,
> 
> Alessandra
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> 
> Alessandra Vinciguerra
> American Academy in Rome
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> 00153 Roma
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> 
> puglisi@librs6k.vatlib.it
> 
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