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<html> <head> </head> <body> <br> <br> Blake Maybank wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:7.0.1.0.0.20060819200510.01f56bd0@ns.sympatico.ca"> Hi All, <br> <br> The following article in the on-line edition of the Globe and Mail might be of interest to some of you: <br> <br> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060819.BCORCHID19/TPStory/National <br> <br> </blockquote> Hi Blake & All, Aug 20, 2006<br> According to my Flora of California (Munz & Keck 1963), the range of <i>Eburiphyton austinae </i>Heller (Phantom Orchid) [aka <i>Chloroea a.; Cephalanthera a.; & Serapias a.</i>] extends from Fresno Co., in the Sierra Nevada, and from Monterey Co., in the Coast Range, north to Washington and Idaho. So on that basis it may be moving into B.C., from the south, rather than moving from B.C. to oblivion.<br> <br> The plant is quite stout and 2-5 dm tall.<br> <br> Also, many plants and fungi tend to move around; old colonies flicker out and new ones spring up elsewhere, so looking for a saprophytic plant only where it was previously known will predictably lead to exaggerated rumors of extinction (apologies to Mark Twain).<br> <br> Two small colonies of (the dreaded) Purple Loosestrife, that I saw south of Kentville several years ago quickly died out. A third small colony (one single plant) that I noticed today may last longer and become extensive because it is on the edge of a 100'-wide waterline right-of-way that has more favourable conditions; running ditch water and frequently bared earth, as the right-of-way is gradually changed to a highway.<br> <br> Yours truly, Dave Webster, Kentville<br> </body> </html>
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