[APWG] NEWS: Harvard biologist comes to the defense of the much reviled tree of heaven

[Gena Fleming]

*Bittersweet, tree of heaveen and dandelion are fundamentally "symptoms of
degradation, not the causes of it," Del Tredici said.*

Thanks, well said.  I couldn't agree more.

Gena Fleming


On 14 June 2010 14:54, Olivia Kwong <plant at plantconservation.org> wrote:

>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/13/AR2010061304822.html
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> Harvard biologist comes to the defense of the much reviled tree of heaven
> By Adrian Higgins
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Monday, June 14, 2010
>
> The misnamed tree of heaven has been outlawed in the District for more than
> a century. No one has planted it in decades. Still it grows. Alongside
> railroad tracks, in the cracked blacktops of abandoned lots, in dark,
> stagnant alleys.
>
> See the link above for the full article text.
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