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Dear All, May 26, 2007
Further to my post of May 2, 2006 (below), I checked today and there are
now 21 leaves.
On a related note, several weeks ago I noticed an interesting
association between Yellow Birch and Trout Lily. Perhaps by chance,
perhaps by strong root competition, there were no trees of any size
within ~25' of the Birch and there was a dense carpet of Trout Lily over
this circular area of ~50' diameter with the Birch in the center; no
Trout Lily in sight beyond this disk.
Yt, DW, Kentville
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Dear All, May 2, 2006
On July 16, 2003 I dug up a few Erythronium americanum bulbs for a
friend, planted 3 (4?) of the smaller ones in our garden and marked the
location with a stake, so they wouldn't get dug up by accident. None
have flowered so far.
In the wild, the bulbs are quite deep (10-15 cm) and I wondered how
a seed that germinated near the surface would manage to generate a bulb
that deep in the ground.
This year there are six isolated leaves (& a possible 7th) and they
appear to have wandered several dm from the initial planting site. An
obscure phrase in Fernald explains all; "Bulb deep-seated, sending out
elongate propagating shoots;".
Yours truly, Dave Webster, Kentville
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