[Taxacom] Australian wollemi pines dodge a bullet (this time)

Thu Jan 16 09:27:04 CST 2020

Hi Adolf,
          Nightcap National Park is mentioned in a news report:  "Fires that started in September swept the park, and scientists from Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden now fear for more than 30 rare tree species — such as the critically endangered Nightcap oak (Eidothea hardeniana) and the endangered peach myrtle (Uromyrtus australis) — which all have relatively few, closely clumped individuals."  (weblink below)
                        -----------------Ken
    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/australian-fires-incinerated-habitats-threatened-species-ecological-disaster

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From: Adolf Ceska <aceska at telus.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 9:15 PM
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Subject: RE: [Taxacom] Australian wollemi pines dodge a bullet (this time)

What about the Nightcap Oak, Eidothea hardeniana?
Cf.: http://bomi.ou.edu/ben/ben271.html

Adolf Ceska

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Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Australian wollemi pines dodge a bullet (this time)

Hi Ken,

I view the protection of habitats as more important than species in isolation. If Wollemi Pines have survived in isolation, what other plants and animals have survived in the same habitat. I would not be at all surprised if there are as yet undiscovered endemic species at the same location - particularly (but not only) of taxa that are ecologically tied to Wollemi Pines.

Tony

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 1:36 PM Kenneth Kinman <kinman at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Anthony,
>          Thankfully, in order to "ensure the species survives, an
> insurance population of young Wollemi Pines has been planted at another
> secret location in the Blue Mountains."   "Access to the insurance site
> is strictly controlled and each piece of equipment taken in has to be
> washed down with fungicide to stop the spread of Phytophthora."
>          That second population, along with seeds in seed banks, as
> well as trees growing at sites throughout the world, should ensure the
> species survival.  This is no doubt easier and less expensive than
> protecting something like the whooping crane (since you can't grow a
> whooping crane from seed and grow one in a pot).
>                                   -----------------Ken Kinman
>
>
> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-21/secret-bid-to-save-prehistoric-
> wollemi-pines/5758542
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Anthony Gill <gill.anthony at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 15, 2020 8:06 PM
> *To:* Kenneth Kinman <kinman at hotmail.com>
> *Cc:* taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> *Subject:* Re: [Taxacom] Australian wollemi pines dodge a bullet (this
> time)
>
> I have no idea why the journalist posted aerial photos of the (secret)
> location. Took me 10 minutes to match it on Google Earth.
>
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 1:02 PM Kenneth Kinman via Taxacom <
> taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>        The wild population of Wollemi pines is probably more
> vulnerable to disease than it is to fire ("Detection of Phytophthora
> multivora in the Wollemi Pine site and pathogenicity to Wollemia
> nobilis"; see weblink below).  It is no doubt easier put out a fire in
> the area than it is to eliminate fungal pathogens.
>         Thankfully these trees are now being grown throughout the
> world (I noted on Taxacom that they were first available for public
> sale in the USA in 2006; see weblink below).
>                               ----------------Ken Kinman
>
>
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272092497_Detection_of_Phytop
> hthora_multivora_in_the_Wollemi_Pine_site_and_pathogenicity_to_Wollemi
> a_nobilis
>
> http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/pipermail/taxacom/2006-October/108103.html
>
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>
> https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/wollemi-pines-known-as-
> dinosaur-trees-saved-from-nsw-bushfires-thanks-to-a-secret-firefightin
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