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Re: TT: Re: I'm back!

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At 07:12 PM 12/15/97 -0500, you wrote:
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There is a redwood growing in a restricted streetlawn situation in Chapel
Hill, NC. Zone 7 USDA. The tree has been there since before I went to
college there - mid 70's. I have never keyed the tree, just believed what I
have been told. Noting you said qiant sequoia is more adaptable, now I
wonder if this could be one of them. I'll try to ask their urban forester
and let you know.

At 09:09 AM 12/13/97 -0500, you wrote: 
  
Nope, no mail on the mulberry (as long as its not a white mulberry ;>).
I'm curious about the redwood.  Typically, we expect coast redwood (Sequoia
sempervirens) to survive only along the coastal fog belt from S. Oregon to
San Francisco.  So, where did you plant it and how is it doing?
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-Shaub,

 Though my email address doesn't state it, I actually live in the
'metropolis' of Santa Cruz, CA which is on the Monterey Bay.  As you noted
, Redwoods love the fog and live primarily on a pretty slim belt fog belt.
They are a wonderfully tough trees and survive most calaminties - including
fire, pests, drought and mud slides.

In Santa Cruz City, we have a pretty good sampling of Redwoods in backyards
and street corners.  Of course, University of California  at Santa Cruz and
our 400 acre undeveloped park the city owns called Pogonip (they border
each other) has a whole bunch including the mixed forest species (maples,
Bays, etc.) you would expect to find.  Mount Lions are also found here.

Though not the biggest, in our state park  we also have a redwood grove of
25 or so trees that are old and quite large.  Can't tell you the exact age,
but they are big.  How's that for percise observation...

Wonderful place to walk, but you better bring a sweater, not much warm in
there and always damp!


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I am curious to know whether anyone on the list has ever seen a redwood
growing away from the fog belt.  This would be of great interest to me as a
plant physiologist. Dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) does well
in a variety of environments, as does giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron
giganteum).  I recall that there were two giant sequoias growing in
Rochester NY until the late 1960s.  They had been collected by an
expedition sent by Ellwanger and Barry, the pioneering nurserymen, in the
late 1800s, and survived until struck by lightning in the '60s

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Shaub Dunkley
2608 University Dr.
Durham NC 27707-2862
sdunkley@mindspring.com

I like calling North Carolina home!
	Hope our children do!	
	Esse quam videri.

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