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On 10/2/2011 10:40 AM, Paul MacDonald wrote:
> Interesting Fred.
> How does Greenbriar multiply?
* presumably by seeds, as you suggest, so maybe one reason for the
northern range limit is limited ability to flower and set seed.
> Presumably by seed but I never saw any seed any time I was around the
> plants.
> Another plant of similar habitat is Water Willow or Swamp Loosestrife.
> It doesn't occur much around here and where it does its hard to access.
> Susposed to have good flowers.
* a magnificent species, and not attacked by the Galerucella Beetles
that have been introduced to control its invasive relative. Bev Wigney
has taken some nice photos of the flowers -
http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/image/47237787 - and other shots in this
gallery.
fred.
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> *From:* Frederick W. Schueler <bckcdb@istar.ca>
> *To:* naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
> *Sent:* Sunday, October 2, 2011 9:25:27 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [NatureNS] greenbriar and button bush
>
> On 10/2/2011 7:00 AM, Paul MacDonald wrote:
>
> > Green Briar is interesting - a great tangle where it occurs but very
> > widely scattered.
>
> * for those without experience in southern New England, I'll point out
> that this, and other thorny species of Smilax, form immense impenetrable
> tangles in the woods there, that they're bird-dispersed, they're
> presumably limited by temperature in Canada, and that disproportionate
> success is predicted for vines (and already documented in the Amazon, at
> least) as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels increase, so we'd expect
> Greenbriar to spread and for new colonies to be established as a result
> of global warming.
>
> On the other branch of this thread, the Hudsonia folks in the lower
> Hudson valley consider Buttonbush to be the best habitat for Blanding's
> Turtles, a relationship which doesn't seem to be conspicuous in eastern
> Ontario (though this may just be due to the fact that the Turtles would
> be invisible in a Buttonbush swamp).
>
> fred schueler
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Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm
now in the field on the Thirty Years Later Expedition -
http://fragileinheritance.org/projects/thirty/thirtyintro.htm
Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/
RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0
on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W
(613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/
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