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Old 20-01-2013, 01:23 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Don Phillipson Don Phillipson is offline
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Default Whoops! Canada bank can't ID their native maple

"Emery Davis" wrote in message
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The new CA$20 has a picture of a Norway maple, not a native Sugar maple
on the face. In most of Canada the Norway maple (A. platanoides ssp) is
considered an invasive pest.

http://rt.com/news/maple-leaf-canada-currency-324/


This currency has no picture of any tree. It has several silhouettes of
leaves,
of which one is identifiable (by its five lobes) as a Norway Maple: but
other
silhouettes on the same bill have only three lobes (like the maple leaf
on the Canadian national flag.)

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)