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== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Jan 22 2008 9:53 am
From: Carolyn Summers
Dear Ents:
The NYTimes had an article in last weekıs Tuesday Science Times
section
about a dwindling population of dragonıs blood trees, Dracaena
cinnabari.
It says the trees were ³born² 65 million years ago on the
supercontinent
Gondwana. The continent split and the trees were dispersed from the
Mediterranean to the Middle East. Their name comes from the fact
that if
you cut into the trunk the tree will ³bleed² red, actually the
source of
cinnabar chinese red laquer.
Sorry I do not know how to provide a web link. The date of this
story is
January 15, 2008. Maybe someone reading this will know how provide a
link
so that other ents can view the picture that comes with the (very
short)
article.
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Carolyn Summers
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TOPIC: Dragon's blood trees
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/31d764470ac37636?hl=en
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== 1 of 12 ==
Date: Tues, Jan 22 2008 10:22 am
From: "William Morse"
Hi Carolyn/all,
I couldn't find the article, but I found a high resolution picture
of the
tree at this link through the NY Times
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/01/15/science/15scot.large1.jpg
Travis
== 2 of 12 ==
Date: Tues, Jan 22 2008 10:25 am
From: Carolyn Summers
Yes, I'm sorry that I have no way to email a copy of the photo from
the
article. This population is near Yemen, apparently some of the
grandest,
tallest, and oldest left standing. They are threatened by goats, of
all
things.
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Carolyn Summers
63 Ferndale Drive
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
914-478-5712
== 3 of 12 ==
Date: Tues, Jan 22 2008 10:29 am
From: Carolyn Summers
Thatıs great, thanks Travis! Arenıt they totally Dr. Seuss?
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Carolyn Summers
== 5 of 12 ==
Date: Tues, Jan 22 2008 11:11 am
From:
More information on this tree can be found at:
http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/30428/all
Paul Jost
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