Subject: -Holly Trees (DEGRADE) bird habitat
Date: Feb 23 07:50:56 2004
From: Steve Barlow - sb326 at mail.gatech.edu


>If present trends continued indefinitely there might eventually be
>no native forest, but only English Hollies, English Ivy
>(Hedera helix) and English Cherry Laurels (Prunus laurocerasis),
>which are almost, but not quite as bad as the Hollies. The bird
>I've noticed most often perching in the Hollies are

I'd just like to point out that altho' the Holly and the Ivy are
indeed native to England, the Cherry Laurel is not English and is, in
fact, a nuisance species in England as well, where it forms dense
dark understories under native woodland shading out the ground flora
and preventing tree regeneration.
I can't remember its native range off-hand, but I'm guessing SE
Europe. Sadly, along with Rhododendron ponticum, very popular in
Victorian shrubberies and very good at escaping from them.

Cheers
Steve (English)

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Dr Stephen Barlow,
Senior Research Scientist
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
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