It also has a point map showing the locations of many populations of A.
elata throughout the NYC metro region. Their researchers could not find any
populations of A. spinosa to map. So it is not an issue of A. spinosa
extending its range, rather it is a case of mistaken identity. I would
think it unlikely that they would have missed a population at NYBG, but
maybe there was a turf issue? :)
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Carolyn Summers
63 Ferndale Drive
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
914-478-5712
From: Edward Frank <[email protected]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:05:35 -0400
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [ENTS] Re: Devil's Walking Stick - Arilia spinosa
Scott, Carolyn, and George,
I looked up the Brooklyn Botanic Garden website:
http://www.bbg.org/
And specifically the New York Metropolitan Flora Project . It lists Aralia
spinosa as a non-native species to the region. I does indicate a couple of
other species in the family. Specifically with regard to Aralia spinosa and
Aralia elata It has the following key to the two species:
http://www.bbg.org/sci/nymf/encyclopedia/index.html
Key to the species of Aralia
1. Leaflets pubescent beneath, veins run to the ends of serrations...Aralia
elata (leaflets hairy underneath)
1. Leaflets nearly glabrous beneath, veins anastomose...Aralia spinosa
(leaflets hairless underneath)
Ed Frank <http://www.bbg.org/sci/nymf/encyclopedia/index.html>
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