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Index of Subjects On 5/4/2017 5:20 PM, Kathryn Tisshaw wrote: > Thanks for your reply! Do you have the coordinates of the locations you found in 2010? * yes, I've sent you the 29 records from NB and NS. I hope NatureNS members can send you a lot more locations. For those not familiar with the differences among Cattail species maybe Kathryn can suggest a good identification page - simple googling just turns up only ugly pages which don't distinguish the kinds very clearly. fred. ======================================================= > It is really strange - one of the researchers here was in Nova Scotia a > few years ago and said she only found one patch of /T. angustifolia/ > east of Quebec. I hope to find up to 10 sites so that I can investigate > the habitat, flowering times, and pollen viability. We are thinking we > might find some interesting results. > > Thanks for your help, > > Kat > > On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Fred Schueler <bckcdb@istar.ca > <mailto:bckcdb@istar.ca>> wrote: > > On 5/4/2017 2:25 PM, Patrick Kelly quoted: > > I am contacting Nature Nova Scotia because I am about to embark on a > journey to Nova Scotia to study cattails. My thesis involves > examining > differences between fertility and habitat preferences between > broadleaf > cattail (Typha latifolia), narrow-leaved cattail (T. > angustifolia), and > their hybrid (T. x glauca) in Nova Scotia and the Great Lakes > area. I > was wondering if there have been any recent observations of the > non-native cattail, T. angustifolia. It seems like T. > angustifolia is a > lot rarer in Nova Scotia than in Ontario, and we want to investigate > this strange phenomenon. This will help us in understanding the > reproduction and habitat preferences of invasive species. Please > let me > know if you know anyone who might know where the non-native > cattail is > found. > > > * I've also been interested in this problem, and I accumulated only > about a dozen locations for T. angustifolia in Nova Scotia from our > travels there in 2010. The same condition holds in New Brunswick, > where the uncommonness of T. angustifolia and hybrids is considered > unexceptional by local botanists - e.g. Gart Bishop > <gartali@NBNET.NB.CA <mailto:gartali@NBNET.NB.CA>> - even while it > strikes those of us from Ontario as astonishing. > > Going down the St Lawrence along the TransCanada, T. angustifolia > continues to be abundant to Riviere du Loup, but once you're over > the mountains to Edmundston it's uncommon all the way to Annapolis > Royal. > > fred schueler > Research Curator > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad > Fragile Inheritance Natural History > ------------------------------------------------------------ > for our annual letter, click '2016' at http://pinicola.ca/aboutus.htm > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ > <http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/> > Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm > 4 St-Lawrence Street Bishops Mills, RR#2 Oxford Station, Ontario K0G 1T0 > on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44.87156°N 75.70095°W > (613)258-3107 <tel:%28613%29258-3107> <bckcdb at istar.ca > <http://istar.ca>> http://pinicola.ca/ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > -- > Kathryn Tisshaw > MSc Candidate > Department of Environmental and Life Sciences > Trent University -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad Fragile Inheritance Natural History ------------------------------------------------------------ for our annual letter, click '2016' at http://pinicola.ca/aboutus.htm ------------------------------------------------------------ Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm 4 St-Lawrence Street Bishops Mills, RR#2 Oxford Station, Ontario K0G 1T0 on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44.87156°N 75.70095°W (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------
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