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15th December 2012, 04:44 PM #1
World's Largest Trees - National Geographic Dec 2012
Just a heads up to check out the latest issue (Dec 2012) of National Geographic. The cover story is about the world's largest trees; and more specifically about The President, a giant Sequoia in California.
This tree is 3,200 years old, holds 82,000 cones each with ~200 seeds (that's over 15 million seeds) and has close to 2 billion leaves.There are some other interesting facts and none more impressive than it's still growing and now faster than ever.
Check it out if you get the chance. There's also a two page spread on buildings made out of wood, both modern and a 1,200 year old pagoda from Nara, Japan.
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15th December 2012, 04:50 PM #2
You have to wonder at the people that have nothing else to do but count these things just to wow us.
RegardsHugh
Enough is enough, more than enough is too much.
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15th December 2012, 05:02 PM #3
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15th December 2012, 05:24 PM #4
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16th December 2012, 09:12 AM #5
Counting leaves isn't just done for fun, you know. Years ago I saw a project in the Melbourne water supply catchments where leaf count was one of many parameters measured to compare several different catchment management strategies. The counting method was to train the counters to make accurate estimates by doing actual counts on different sized branches of different species. Estimates were then made for representative sample coups in each catchment.
And while the research project in each catchment might be carried out by postgrads working towards a Ph.D., I reckon most of the actual counting would be done by optimistic/ambitious undergrads.