Re: Re[2]: Corrected Buchus: None So Blind...
- To: "medit-plants" <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
- Subject: Re: Re[2]: Corrected Buchus: None So Blind...
- From: G* B*
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:44:31 +0200
>Hi Glenn,
>
>You wrote:
>
>"In nature I've only ever found it
>growing in coarse, white,sandstone derived soils, adjacent to streams in
the
>kloofs."
>
>I'm wondering what a kloof is.
>
>Deborah Lindsay
>Oakland, California
>mild dry summers, mild wet winters
>
Sorry - Local Afrikaans vernacular which has transposed into English. Kloof
basically means a valley. In this case I associate them more with steep
sided mountain valleys, & thus a more confined, cool environment.
Regards Glenn