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--Apple-Mail-120--810778583 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Thanks, Carl! Begin forwarded message: > From: Carl Munden <carl.munden@ns.sympatico.ca> > Date: July 25, 2013 4:34:06 PM ADT > To: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Subject: Re: helleborine orchids + cardinals singing, Wolfville > > Hi Jim: Anywhere AND Everywhere. In dark conifer, in dark hardwood, > in sunny conifer, in sunny hardwood. In acidic soil, over top of > Gypsum. High up in the Cape Breton Highlands above book store/ > Cheticamp entrance. BUT the most bizarre of all...growing in cracks > of sidewalk on Bloor Street in downtown Toronto !!! > > Carl > ----- Original Message ----- > From: James W. Wolford > To: Nature BNS > Cc: Ruth Newell ; Carl Munden > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 2:07 PM > Subject: helleborine orchids + cardinals singing, Wolfville > > JULY 25, 2013 - In Wolfville, the n. cardinal in our yard was > singing strongly, as was another one near the Acadia Arena parking > lot. > > And I made a nice discovery in our front garden today: four plants > in bloom of the HELLEBORINE ORCHID, Epipactis helleborine, the > exotic species for our province discovered in 1985 by Bernard > Forsythe in Blomidon Park, after which there were rapid discoveries > pointing to the dispersal of this then-newly-arrived species. It > is now quite widespread and common, and I know it is found in > and around the botanical gardens of the Irving Centre. I guess > almost any habitat, other than dense coniferous woods, is > expectable for this species. Zinck's Flora of N.S. (1998) shows > only a few dots on its distribution map, but I'm sure a current map > would look different? Zinck states that the first North American > record goes back to 1879. Most of my own discoveries of > helleborine have been in open edges of wooded habitats, and good > old humans have created oodles of such edges. > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. --Apple-Mail-120--810778583 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; "> Thanks, Carl!<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">Carl Munden <<a = href=3D"mailto:carl.munden@ns.sympatico.ca">carl.munden@ns.sympatico.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>Date: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">July 25, 2013 4:34:06 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">"James W. Wolford" <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>></fon= t></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: helleborine orchids + cardinals = singing, Wolfville</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: = 14px; "><br></div> <span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; = text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><font = size=3D"4">Hi Jim: Anywhere AND Everywhere. In dark conifer, in dark = hardwood, in sunny conifer, in sunny hardwood. In acidic soil, over top = of Gypsum. High up in the Cape Breton Highlands above book = store/Cheticamp entrance. BUT the most bizarre of all...growing in = cracks of sidewalk on Bloor Street in downtown Toronto = !!!</font></div><div><font size=3D"4"></font> </div><div><font = size=3D"4">Carl</font></div><blockquote dir=3D"ltr" = style=3D"border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; = border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px; = margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; "><div style=3D"font: normal normal = normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message -----</div><div = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; background-image: = initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; = background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); = background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial = initial; "><b>From:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = title=3D"jimwolford@eastlink.ca" = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">James W. Wolford</a></div><div = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = title=3D"nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca" = href=3D"mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">Nature BNS</a></div><div = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Cc:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = title=3D"ruth.newell@acadiau.ca" = href=3D"mailto:ruth.newell@acadiau.ca">Ruth Newell</a><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>;<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = title=3D"carl.munden@ns.sympatico.ca" = href=