Cindy

Tia Leschke wrote:
>
> > We saw albino redwood trees on Monday and so we've had
> >some interesting discussions about why they were white. We are planning
> >on taking my DH to see them this weekend!
>
> Albino redwood trees? Where? I assume you're in California somewhere. I
> never heard of such a thing all those years I grew up there.
>

I am in California - in the Santa Cruz Mountains. I've been here over
25 years and I never heard of them either. Somehow they mutate and have
white needles - they can grow to about 20 feet high in part of a nursery
ring - that ring of little trees that pop up when a big, old one dies.
I saw two at Henry Cowell State Park and a friend says there are some
at Big Basin. Fred, our nature walk leader, says that there is a network
of people who know where they are but since some people have come along
and destroyed the trees, their locations are only given to people who
can be trusted to keep them safe. I don't know if this is a recent
phenomena or not.

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Cindy Ferguson
crma@...

Tia Leschke

>
>I am in California - in the Santa Cruz Mountains. I've been here over
>25 years and I never heard of them either. Somehow they mutate and have
>white needles - they can grow to about 20 feet high in part of a nursery
>ring - that ring of little trees that pop up when a big, old one dies.
>I saw two at Henry Cowell State Park and a friend says there are some
>at Big Basin. Fred, our nature walk leader, says that there is a network
>of people who know where they are but since some people have come along
>and destroyed the trees, their locations are only given to people who
>can be trusted to keep them safe. I don't know if this is a recent
>phenomena or not.

Cool. If you ever get pictures of them, I'd love to see them. I doubt
I'll ever get down to actually see them in the flesh, so to speak. I've
wanted to go down for a visit for a long time, but have never had the money
to do it right. (The last time I was down was over 20 years ago when my
grandmother died, and I had no car to get to my favorite old haunts.)

So do they only grow to about 20 feet and then die or what?
Tia

Tia Leschke leschke@...
On Vancouver Island
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