Rare redwood faces chopping block in Cotati (Feds chopping it down)

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[bert]

I have lived a long time but try to learn something every day.

This morning I learned that there are albino trees. I was not aware that there could be albino plants.

Skeptic that I am, I wonder if it is true.?

[Carriage Hill]

After more closely reading the *.pdf file, it looks like this is a meristem/lab production issue; the cuttings of albinos didn’t make it due to lack of chlorophyll in cells. Looks like it going to be a cone/seed reproduction situation, instead of simple cuttings, after all. I did meristem production with orchids, back in the 80s, and was very successful. This is a different can of worms. Usually, Redwood cuttings are easy.

[Carriage Hill]

I’ve propagated partially-albino (variegated) plants, but never plants with full albinism. That poses a whole unique set of problems since most are parasites from a host plant, which feeds them sugars. This is fascinating.

[Carriage Hill]

There are hundreds, if not thousands of variegated plant cultivars in production. Here's one Tsuga Canadensis (Canadian Hemlock 'Moon Frost') which isn't easy to propagate, but cutting success rate is 10-in-100, or so:

[Carriage Hill]

7:52am and the Rush “Update Minute” has this story on WSBA, in York! It’s a “bi-racial tree”! LOL!

[Adder]

With as many private projects stopped dead because of tree hugger concerns, making their beloved train a victim of their own passions is a rueful justice.

SAVE THE TREE!! SAVE THE TREE!!

[Carriage Hill]

I found an Elm Beetle-resistant Ulmus Americana years ago on a customer’s property, and took every seedling the tree dropped, grew them on and gave away over 500 saplings (8-10ft) to re-populate the county. They had a natural genetic resistance to the virus. BTW, the “Dutch Elm Disease” was misnamed; the Dutch were helping us find a cure, which didn’t happen. But the disease was wrongly attributed to them. It was a European Elm bark beetle, from Asia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_elm_disease

[Sacajaweau]

What’s with the albino worship?? All mutants...It happens

[LeoWindhorse]

transplant it

[Sacajaweau]

The Elm trees lined our street creating an archway. Also huge chestnuts. "Exotic" birds were all over the place...orioles and blue jays and red winged blackbirds...along with the ordinary sparrows and robins etc.. They're all gone now except for the ordinary birds and pests like pigeons.

They have planted smaller leafed trees like Little Leaf Linden which is also salt resistant I believe.

Thanks for your info.

[sten]

the left isn’t going crazy since they value union jobs over tree hugging

why they can’t just reroute the track is beyond me

[Carriage Hill]

Back in the 50s & early-60s, our Family lived in Arling Hts, IL, and we had American Elms on our 3.5ac property, as well as the canopy covering the streets. All gone now.

In the 70s/80s, the Zelkova serrata (Russian Elm) was introduced to ‘replace’ the American Elm, but it too had its problems, though it is in widespread use today.

The Tilia cordata (Linden) is a nice, durable street/pkg lot tree, but more of an ornamental rather than a massive shade tree, like the Elms. The summer blooms are a Jap Beetle magnet - they can defoliate an entire tree - and a problem unless pre-treated for the beetle infestation.

[Carriage Hill]

“Arling Hts, IL”

Arlington Heights, IL

[Cymbaline]

“We are just complying with safety regulations,” said Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit spokeswoman Carolyn Glendening. “It's a decision that's been made by federal regulators. It's not a discretionary matter. It's not a policy matter for the board. It's a safety matter.”

This sounds like something right out of Atlas Shrugged.

[zeugma]

Perhaps you missed the point where there are fewer than 10 left.

It's not a matter of there only being 10 left. It's just a mutation of an existing species. a hundred (or thousand) years from now, there will still probably be 10 of them.

[houeto]

Here it is: