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24-09-2004, 08:55 PM
Christopher Green
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(Iris Cohen) wrote in message ...
In some areas, there are pygmy forests where soils or environmental
conditions limit mature tree height to well below 10 feet. They are still trees
but might better be described as pygmy trees or dwarfed trees.
There are areas in the rainforests like that. They are called elfin forest. In
the dry areas of California, it is called chaparral. In the countries around
the Mediterranean, it is called maqui.
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
Chaparral and maqui are something different from pygmy or elfin
forests or krummholz. (In California, what people think of as
chaparral is formally "coastal sage scrub".) It supports oaks and
other trees of considerable size. But the flora characteristic of
these regions consists mainly of species that do not naturally have
the habit of trees, not of tree species dwarfed by environmental
conditions.
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Chris Green
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