Re: Wollemi, Attenborough, and Branagh

[mkirkaldy@aol.com]

Evidently there are plans to start selling seedlings in June 2005.  It 
grows well as a potted plant or outdoors, growing about half a meter a 
year.

http://www.rbgsyd.gov.au/information_about_plants/wollemi_pine

Click on "growing it" for more information or "register" to be placed 
on a mailing list:
 "By joining the Wollemi Pine Conservation Club you will receive 
Wollemi Watch (our quarterly e-newsletter) and register your interest 
in buying a Wollemi Pine."

See also:  http://www.wollemipine.com/science.php

Mary

-----Original Message-----
From: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
To: DML <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Tue, 10 May 2005 20:57:46 +0200
Subject: Re: Wollemi, Attenborough, and Branagh

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/4531805.stm ;
 
Pictures! 
 
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/10/udinosaur.xml ;
 
Detail picture! More like palm leaves than like ordinary conifer 
needles. 
 
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Science/On-the-trail-of-lonesome-Wollemi-pine/2005/05/10/1115584960640.html?oneclick=true ;
 
"a complete reshuffle of the world's landscape" 
 
I love this phrase! Must remember it. :-) 
 
"and 17 ice ages." 
 
The number I heard last was 21. 
 
http://www.canada.com/news/world/story.html?id=c2c1f37a-b79c-443e-9d10-c08028e13531 ;
 
"A conifer related to the monkey puzzle tree, the Wollemi Pine has 
dense blue-green foliage and grows up to 40 metres. It has distinctive 
bubbly bark which some have compared to Coco Pops breakfast cereal." 
 
:-D 
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1480164,00.html ;
 
"The Wollemi pine -up to 40 metres high and in fact, a conifer, not a 
pine -" 
 
:.-( 
<sob> 
<sniff> 
 
http://www.dehavilland.co.uk/webhost.asp?wci=default&wcp=NationalNewsStoryPage&ItemID=8468622&ServiceID=8&filterid=10&searchid=8 ;
 
"Although the tree is called a pine it is, in fact, a conifer, closely 
related to the monkey puzzle tree with two layers of leaves along its 
twisting branches."