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- From: jim@doink.b23b.ingr.com (James B. Reed)
- Subject: Re: Christmas tree alternative?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.174825.14627@infonode.ingr.com>
- Sender: jim@doink (James B. Reed)
- Reply-To: jimreed@b23b.b23b.ingr.com
- Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
- References: <1992Nov17.092118.5813@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:48:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.092118.5813@athena.cs.uga.edu>, maxfield@athena.cs.uga.edu (Joan C. Maxfield) writes:
- |> OK, I know this is going to sound REALLY odd, but:
- |> Does anyone have any ideas for 'alternate' types of christmas
- |> trees?
-
- If you think the question is odd, wait until you read my answer...
-
- My parents used to decorate their pencil tree in addition to having
- a "regular" tree. I remember several visitors commenting "Look at
- that it's lost all it's leaves!" They couldn't use any real heavy
- ornaments, but it was different.
-
- What? You don't know what a pencil tree is? (I guess this
- posting could go in the "odd plants" category too.)
-
- It's a succulent. If I remember right, it's closely related to
- the poinsetta, but looks completely different. This plant is
- almost all green stalk and green branches with tiny leaves on
- new growth that don't last too long. I guess it's called a
- pencil tree because the branches are round and segmented (sort
- of like a bunch of pencils fastened together). The segments are
- generally smaller than a pencil though.
-
- My parent's started decorating theirs when it was about 3 or 4 feet
- tall. They would move it outside in the summer and inside in
- the winter, but when it got to about 6 feet they left it out
- to freeze (I had rooted some cuttings first). The only larger
- ones I've seen were in the greenhouse at Biltmore, those touched
- the ceiling about 30 feet up.
-
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