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--Apple-Mail-29--1050625749 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed I'll bet Jane is right about you probably having common comfrey, Symphytum officinale, which is currently in bloom along our rail trail in Wolfville. We also have a less common second species, rough comfrey, S. asperum. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. Begin forwarded message: > From: Dave&Jane Schlosberg <dschlosb-g@ns.sympatico.ca> > Date: June 27, 2013 7:49:59 PM ADT > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Bluebells (Mertensia) in NS > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > Could it be comfrey (symphytum officinale)? Different family, but > fits your description. > Jane > > From: Larry Ayers > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 4:58 PM > To: NatureNS > Subject: [NatureNS] Bluebells (Mertensia) in NS > > Hello -- I'm an American staying in the Round Hill area this > summer, and I've been trying to identify the native and alien > plants in the neighborhood. Lots of aliens in the Annapolis Valley! > > There's a road ditch in front of a vacant house on Hwy. 201 which > harbors a profuse growth of a plant which has flowers very like > those of the Eastern Bluebell, Mertensia virginica. It's a taller > plant with rough-hairy lanceolate leaves and I'm wondering if it > might be Mertensia paniculata, the Tall Bluebell. That species > grows as far east as Quebec and could have been brought to NS as a > garden plant, perhaps. > > Has anyone seen these? > > Larry Ayers --Apple-Mail-29--1050625749 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> I'll bet Jane is right about you probably having common comfrey, = Symphytum officinale, which is currently in bloom along our rail trail = in Wolfville. We also have a less common second species, rough = comfrey, S. asperum. Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">Dave&Jane Schlosberg <<a = href=3D"mailto:dschlosb-g@ns.sympatico.ca">dschlosb-g@ns.sympatico.ca</a>&= gt;</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">June 27, 2013 7:49:59 PM = ADT</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: [NatureNS] Bluebells (Mertensia) = in NS</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <div dir=3D"ltr"> = <div style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000"> = <div>Could it be comfrey (symphytum officinale)? Different family, = but fits your description.</div> <div>Jane</div> <div style=3D"FONT-SIZE: = small; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; = FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none; DISPLAY: inline"> <div = style=3D"FONT: 10pt tahoma"> <div> </div> <div style=3D"BACKGROUND: = #f5f5f5"> <div style=3D"font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a = title=3D"larry.ayers@gmail.com" = href=3D"mailto:larry.ayers@gmail.com">Larry Ayers</a> </div> = <div><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 27, 2013 4:58 PM</div> <div><b>To:</b> = <a title=3D"naturens@chebucto.ns.ca" = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">NatureNS</a> </div> = <div><b>Subject:</b> [NatureNS] Bluebells (Mertensia) in = NS</div></div></div> <div> </div></div> <div style=3D"FONT-SIZE: = small; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; = FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none; DISPLAY: inline"> <div = dir=3D"ltr">Hello -- I'm an American staying in the Round Hill area this = summer, and I've been trying to identify the native and alien plants in = the neighborhood. Lots of aliens in the Annapolis Valley! = <div> </div> <div>There's a road ditch in front of a vacant house = on Hwy. 201 which harbors a profuse growth of a plant which has flowers = very like those of the Eastern Bluebell, Mertensia virginica. It's a = taller plant with rough-hairy lanceolate leaves and I'm wondering if it = might be Mertensia paniculata, the Tall Bluebell. That species grows as = far east as Quebec and could have been brought to NS as a garden plant, = perhaps.</div> <div> </div> <div>Has anyone seen these?</div> = <div> </div> <div>Larry Ayers = </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-29--1050625749--
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