Re:RE: New Zealand Flora
- To: "Randall; Rod" <r*@agric.wa.gov.au>, "m*@ucdavis.edu" <m*@ucdavis.edu>
- Subject: Re:RE: New Zealand Flora
- From: "* L* <D*@kaiseral.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:44 -0800
aha that makes sense. I knew about the fauna but did not know that was true also
of the flora... thanks.
Deborah
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Subject: RE: New Zealand Flora
Author: rprandall@agric.wa.gov.au (Randall; Rod)
Date: 3/10/99 4:01 PM
for the same reason that New Zealand was overly represented by birdlife
that had taken ecological niches usually filled by mammals elsewhere
The island was originally populated by a very small selection of species
(plant and animal) of a limited genepool hence its unique flora and fauna
that is easily theatened by introduced species.
rod
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> From: Deborah Lindsay
> Reply To: Deborah.Lindsay@kaiseral.com
> Sent: Thursday, 11 March 1999 7:25 AM
> To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: New Zealand Flora
>
> On March 4, '99 Moira wrote:
>
> "There are two characteristics of the NZ flora which tend to make
> all-native gardens distinctive, one is the paucity of herbaceous plants,
> including bulbs, and the preponderence among them of white flowers, and
> the other is that virtually all trees and shrubs are evergreen."
>
> Moira (and others),
>
> I found this an interesting observaton and wonder if anyone knows (or has
> an
> educated guess) why these characteristics exist in the NZ flora.
>
> Deborah Lindsay
> Oakland, California
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