Thursday Trivia

Re: Thursday Trivia

John Veerkamp

Do the leaves and berries feature often on Christmas decorating?

I may be making links all wrong

Gary Smyth

but a Springtime rose figures prominently.

Re: Thursday Trivia

Dale Lenz

Dan...you are some kinda good, think you missed your calling. You'd make a great writer for something like the Joker in the Batman movie, with your hints. I have no idea what a rabbit like critter or a pika has in common with a name of a tree.

OH...oh...oh...maybe your after Gopher wood, :-).

Except . . .

Frederick Nelson

Gophers are rodents. Lagomorphs include hares, rabbits, coneys, and pikas, roughly by ear-size from largest to smallest, and are characterized by having four pairs of incisors, as opposed to a rodent's two pairs. (Bugs Bunny is not really an exception; he has two pairs of incisors for the same reason he has only four fingers -- easier to draw.)

If there is Norfolk Island Pine, can there be Coney Island Pine? (Or whatever the roller coasters were made from.)

Fred

Clear and warm in Eastern Missouri

Ignore first reply

Gary Smyth

I know that we're talking rabbits here. The problem was the rest. It took a few pages to get the latin name which I'll leave open. It does appear in the latter half of "World Woods in Color" by William Lincoln.

Hard question today. Had to look to U.K.

Sycamore?  In England it's called maple(?)

Dale Lenz

Sycamore is Platanus occidentalis. If I recall, occidentalis has something to do with the West(?). I'm still lost.

Re: Sycamore?  In England it's called maple(?)

Frederick Nelson

In England and Europe, what they call Sycamore is Acer pseudoplatanus, and as its genus implies, it is a member of the maple family.

Fred

Clear with a little haze in Eastern Missouri

Re: Sycamore?  In England it's called maple(?)

Dale Lenz

The wood in Gary's pic appears to be American sycamore. Thanks for the info.

I was headed at Sycamore

Gary Smyth

Acer pseudoplatanus. Family Aceracae. When treated chemically, also called harewood. Since it is an Acer it belongs to the maple family.

no

Don't think so, but I may be wrong

Re: I was headed at Sycamore

Dale Lenz

Not a problem, the pic of the wood you posted looks like American sycamore to me.

Likely correct about American Sycamore

Gary Smyth

I pulled the wood picture off the web. I didn't have a clue that there was a difference. I thought all Sycamore was pretty much the same except maybe for the continent where it grew. The tea caddy picture I pulled from the web also but it was posted in England with a description that included the term "harewood" so I used that as an illustration.