Re: What exactly is a mediterranean climate anyway?
- Subject: Re: What exactly is a mediterranean climate anyway?
- From: T* S* <t*@schweich.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 07:26:37 -0700
Sometimes the Mojave Desert is defined by the limits of natural
distribution of the Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia). Not cultivated like
the olive tree, but a somewhat analogous situation.
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From: margn@internode.on.net <m*@internode.on.net>
To: diapteron@hawaii.rr.com <d*@hawaii.rr.com>
Sent: Fri 11/06/10 8:29 PM
Subject: Fwd: Re: What exactly is a mediterranean climate anyway?
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Yes, it is a very interesting question. The olive tree as marker
has been raised by Ferdinand Braudel in his exhaustive discussion
about THE MED - good reading and very wide ranging but it does
take some effort to get through 2 vols drawn on History since
Phillip 2 of Spain. There is another theory that says where the
date palm grows (Ibn Batutah - Moorish scholar as I recall) is
the marker.
*On Fri 11/06/10 6:34 PM , "Mach Fukada" diapteron@hawaii.rr.com
<d*@hawaii.rr.com> sent:
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I like this one. Olives are fruiting and spreading here in
Kula, Maui.
MTF
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*From:* Cali Doxiadis <c*@otenet.gr>
*To:* pamela.steele@re-taste.com
<p*@re-taste.com> ; Medit-Plants
<m*@ucdavis.edu> ; mikemace@att.net
<m*@att.net>
*Sent:* Thursday, June 10, 2010 8:48 PM
*Subject:* Re: What exactly is a mediterranean climate
anyway?
Pamela--facile though it is, this rule of thumb has
always worked for me: If the olive tree grows and bears
fruit, the climate is mediterranean.
Cali, Corfu, Greece
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