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Hi Steve & All, Oct 3, 2007
My first guess would be Peach of some kind or (much less likely) a
Cherry.
I didn't get back to the Fundy shore or to waterfalls to check for
Liancalus this summer.
Yt, DW
Stephen Shaw wrote:
> Recently I collected some froghoppers/spittlebugs from a 10-foot high
> little
> tree or bush an abandoned garden near York Redoubt, Halifax, and would
> like to
> know what it is. (Actually I fell into it ignominiously and a small
> branch
> broke off, so I took it home). Couldn't find anything convincing in
> my tree
> book, so could anyone who knows about tree-ID please take a look at
> the last
> two photos uploaded to
> www.flickr.com/photos/Steve_1968
> where the two pics are called 2007Sept23_shrub-1 and -4, and at least
> a few of
> the leaves are in focus.
> As this was a former garden, it is not necessarily a N. American
> native, cold be
> an imported ornamental.
> Thanks,
> Steve (Halifax)
> P.S. to Dave Webster: the Liancalus flies (Dolichopodidae) were still
> flitting
> around on the Halls Harbour cliffs a week ago, along with a few
> bristletails
> sitting on the rocks, but the latter are about to disappear into the rock
> crevices for their long winter hibernation, or whatever they do in there.
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