Re: Araucaria sp.

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• To: <e*@town.nd.edu.au>
• Subject: Re: Araucaria sp.
• From: "* T* <m*@bigpond.com>
• Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 05:46:59 +1000

Hi Beverly,

>And where did you get your information about the Cook's pine?

>From Horticultural Flora of South-Eastern Australia Volume 1 - Ferns,
Conifers & Their Allies.  Text by Roger Spencer.  Royal Botanic Gardens
Melbourne, 1995.

>Does your book say that this is one of the species represented
>there?
It says that "it is the rarer of the commonly planted species"  also that
"Araucaria columnaris, A. cunninghamii and A. heterophylla cannot be easily
distinguished by leaf characters ...  The characteristic mature habits of
the 4 commonest cultivated species can be compared in the city centre of
Perth in the parkland at the corner of Barrack etc. etc......"


Hope this helps,

Mary


-----Original Message-----
From: Julius & Beverly Elischer <elischer@town.nd.edu.au>
To: Mary Townsend <m.townsend@bigpond.com>
Cc: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Date: Saturday, June 20, 1998 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: Araucaria sp.


>Mary Townsend wrote:
>>
>> Could it be Cook's Pine (Araucaria columnaris)?  It has a narrowly
columnar
>> habit, with a pointed crown, and often a bit of a lean.  Bark papery and
>> peeling.
>> I have a book which says that in the parkland at the corner of Barrack
>> Street and St. Georges Terrace, Perth, there are examples of the four
most
>> common Araucarias.  Might be worth a look.
>>
>> Mary
>>
>
>Very interesting, Mary. Sounds possible. I'll have a look at the
>gardens. Does your book say that this is one of the species represented
>there? And where did you get your information about the Cook's pine?
>
>Beverly
>--
>Beverly Elischer
>Perth, Western Australia
>Ph. +61 8 9386 5244

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