RE: more taxonomy
- To: B*@monterey.edu (Barry Garcia), r*@agric.wa.gov.au
- Subject: RE: more taxonomy
- From: h*@ccnet.com (Jerry Heverly)
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 19:32:00 -0800 (PST)
At 6:03 PM 3/21/99, Barry Garcia wrote:
>rprandall@agric.wa.gov.au writes:
>>Anything plants that can grown unaided in the middle of a big city without
>>any care probably deserve more than to be just labled a "weed" eh?...
>
>This reminds me, I was watching a Home Improvement show on TV a while ago,
>and they showed this segment on refurbishing old tenements in NYC. In this
>empty lot next door were all these sumac plants (at least i think they
>were).
As an ex-New Yorker who has spent zillions of hours walking around
Manhattan and driving around the five boroughs I can attest that *Rhus
typhina*, Staghorn Sumac is ubiquitous.
Jerry Heverly, Oakland, CA
