On Mar 19, 2012, at 6:14 AM, steve harley wrote: > yes, that's an angelic shot, and interesting to hear about the "nesting" > behavior — as you may know the Norfolk Island Pine is a common houseplant; i > know they grow taller in the wild, but mine's at least 15 years old and only > 4 feet tall
You could see some of the trees growing through some of the historic photo sequences. It did look like they grow pretty slowly. We saw one that had been planted in 1988 I think, and it wasn't very tall either. Captain Cook thought they would be good for making ship masts but they turned out to be unsuitable because the branches cause deep knots in the trunk. On the subject of house plants, they also export a lot of kentia palm seeds for use as decorative pot plants. They used to fetch a lot of money but the market was flooded and the price plummeted. > the terns of my youth in Maine were black-capped and yellow-billed, but > similar graceful shape; they supposedly visit southern Colorado but i haven't > seen one here We have the black-capped ones in some parts of this country. I think I have a photo somewhere... They also had black terns there. Made me think of spy vs spy :) Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
