Kouta, I haven't paid that much attention to any of the accounts of tall var communis I've read; they generally lack detail in terms of both measurement and location. I think the tallest I've read about was 50 or 55' somewhere around the Baltic Sea.
Jess On 11/16/09, Kouta Räsänen <[email protected]> wrote: > Jess, > > And how tall is the tallest J. communis var. communis of which you are > aware? Where is it growing? > > That 2000 year old juniper has been mentioned also by Jalas (1958) in > Finnish. Though, I am little bit suspicious about that, too. I will > search if I am able to find more about it. > > An addition to the language issue: My brother - a scientist in a > finnish university - said to me that more than half of scientific > papers in his department are published only in Finnish. And Finland is > a highly developed country. The proportion is supposedly much lower in > countries like Russia or China. > > - Kouta > > -- > 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] -- 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]
