What?! They didn't find any Aralia spinosa in the NYC metropolitan area????? It can't be that the curators and gardeners at NYBG are mistaken as to what species we are pulling, can it? And it can't be that spinosa only grows in the 50 acres of the Forest and not in the Bronx River Forest 35 feet away on the other side of the parkway?! I'll ask about elata.
I often can't find info I want on that BBG Metro Flora site. I sometimes think maybe they have the site up and running before have recorded/input all the data. Jenny On Mar 22, 8:22 pm, Carolyn Summers <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? :) > -- > 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> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
