[NatureNS] re helleborine orchids, Wolfville

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From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:34:56 -0300
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Thanks, Carl!

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> 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.


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