"Eric Hunt" wrote in message
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In the interest of expanding botanical appreciation and knowledge, along
with several folk's expressed interest in small numbers of non-orchid
photos, I'm presenting a couple of my favorite non-orchid shots. With
respect to the group, if these are too off-topic, just let me know and
I'll go back to all orchids all the time.

Arctostaphylos is a genus of ericads with a center of distribution in
California. It has a narrow range along the foggy coast of California,
Oregon, Washington, and possibly British Colombia.

A. pajaroensis is threatened by the standard thing: residential
development of coastal land.

Other famous ericads are Blueberries and Rhododendrons.
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-Eric in SF
www.orchidphotos.org


Peter and John said it well. But, it is also interesting to find
other "threatened" plants and habitats. Sometimes we become so
focused on the idea that Orchids are threatened in the slash and burn
economies of impoverished areas we forget that there is a different
type of threat in 'industrial' nations that is no less severe.
SuE
http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/orchids