Larry- Good find, and close to home! Re spiraling grain, your upper-right to lower-left comment accurately describes the two trees you speak of, but I'm thinking I've seen upper-left to lower-right spiraling grain too, and in the northern hemisphere...my memory is imperfect, but I believe Bob and I noted both spiraling directions in maple in Massachusetts in the early 90's...Bob??? -Don
> Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 15:16:45 -0700 > Subject: [ENTS] Re: Louisiana Live Oaks #2 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > > Don, That is really a great Question, I noticed several Live Oaks > that grow in this pattern. Ed, Bob,Will, et al, have discussed this > before, to be honest I'm not sure. Maybe in its youth it began to > sprial from storms, etc. I found this, check this out, its way > cool! http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF7/783.html Larry > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has a new way to see what's up with your friends. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/WhatsNew?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_WhatsNew1_052009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
