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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.
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> 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
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> Kathryn Tisshaw
> MSc Candidate
> Department of Environmental and Life Sciences
> Trent University
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