Re: mallees, marlocks, moorts and yates
Hopefully Margaret won't mind me partly answering a third of the question
Tim - mind you I had to look it up whereas she will know it all off the top
of her head! "Marlock" - a form of growth applied to several Eucalpyptus
spp. with a dwarf tree-like habit, usually with a single stem arising from a
swollen base or lignotuber.
Only a week ago I had to have a lovely Euc tereticornis (Forest Red Gum)
taken down, was on my front fence line and had developed a 10foot split to
the ground in one of its 3 trunks. The arborist tells me it was juvenile -
perhaps 40+ years old, a lovely healthy looking specimen, more than 30feet
tall, about a third of the size of mature specimens according to my
reference book - which also notes that "it is a tall, fast growing tree for
large scale planting in spacious parks and long country roadsides but
generally too big for gardens and streets".... unfortunately on my long
country road it became a risk to life and limb.
Jane
just NW of Sydney where we've had 17inches of rain to date this year..
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Longville" <tim@eddy.u-net.com>
To: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 5:43 AM
Subject: mallees, marlocks, moorts and yates
> Couldn't let that lovely run of words go without a query or two
> chasing after it.
>
> Margaret - are these beauties all words which are applied
> indiscriminately to all mallees?
>
> Or are all mallees mallees but only some mallees marlocks, some moorts
> and some yates?
>
> And if the latter, what's the difference between m, m, m and y?!
>
> Or, if they're all words for every single mallee, why the, ahum,
> redundant synonymity? Different words for/from different bits of the
> country?
>
> And, finally, what the heck do they - all and each - mean?!
>
> Now I bet you'd never mentioned'em....
>
> TIA for any info or even suggestions of where to find it -
>
> Tim-the-word-freak
> beside the Solway Firth, Cumbria UK,
> where it's spring by the sea, still winter on the snow-capped fells
> Tim Longville
