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Article #268Re: Ginkgo
From: Una Smith
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 00:00
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 00:00
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kwantenzap@xs4all.nl (CorK) writes: >It might well be the first tree on earth, you're not well informed. It is certainly not the first tree on earth. CorK, I suggest you go *read a paleobotany textbook*; several good ones have already been cited in this thread. una@mars.its.yale.edu (Una Smith) wrote: >>Anyway, the sex of cultivated Ginkgo trees in North America is quite >>irrelevant because these trees are not part of a breeding population. >Landscapers plant only male trees, This is false, as proved by the presence of female trees in numerous cities. > and that's why the species can't >survive in the wild - not enough females. Nonsense. The survival of the species in the wild in China does not depend on its cultivation as an ornamental. -- Una Smith una.smith@yale.edu Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Yale University
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a56c,256aa6b830d099cc X-Google-Attributes: gid10a56c,public X-Google-Thread: 10428a,256aa6b830d099cc X-Google-Attributes: gid10428a,public X-Google-Thread: feea0,256aa6b830d099cc X-Google-Attributes: gidfeea0,public X-Google-Thread: 10bcbe,256aa6b830d099cc X-Google-Attributes: gid10bcbe,public From: una@mercury.cis.yale.edu (Una Smith) Subject: Re: Ginkgo Date: 2000/12/04 Message-ID: <90h2us$8fj$1@news.ycc.yale.edu> X-Deja-AN: 701108407 References: <3a2639e9.2337707@news.xs4all.nl> <906f9g$n69$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <90g653$483$1@news.ycc.yale.edu> <3a2c0667.9253057@news.xs4all.nl> Organization: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University Reply-To: Una Smith <una.smith@yale.edu> Newsgroups: sci.bio.botany,sci.bio.ecology,rec.gardens,bionet.plants.education