Jenny, Steve et al., I guess Steve has right: rather Cedar of Lebanon than Atlas Cedar because of flat-topped crown.
There are a lot of similarities between European and your vegetation. Considering trees, there are even shared native species, like Juniperus communis and Alnus incana. Many species pairs are very similar, like Betula pendula - B. papyrifera, Ulmus laevis - U. americana, Populus tremula - P. tremuloides, Populus nigra - P. deltoides etc. > for some reason they are often the ones that are out of favor back in North > Ameica: silver maple, box-elder, and black locust as examples. That's true. I think one reason is that there are not similar species in European nature: no maples with silvery leaf underside, no maples with compoud leaves and no large fabaceous trees. The gardeners like trees they don't see everywhere in the bush. In addition, the locust borer is absent in Europe, and consequently Black Locust is very vital here - even too vital: in southern Europe it has become one of the most common tree species. - 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]
