Local trees pick up roots and move

"Mark Edwards" wrote in message
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The Dallas Cowboys football team will be moving to Arlington, which
means a lot of stuff has to be torn down, to clear space for the new
stadium.

Apparently, some of the local trees have picked up roots, and "girded
up their loins", so to speak, and have decided to move. I have
captured this mass tree migration and put pictures up on a webpage:

http://tinyurl.com/qkosm

Arlington, Texas: home of the most reactionary trees in the US...

Is that small rootball normal for trees? Or are eucalypts unusual int hat
they have very deep roots?

Yowie

Yowie wrote:

Is that small rootball normal for trees? Or are eucalypts unusual
int hat they have very deep roots?

Funny question, coming from an Australian! Isn't that where we US'ans
got the eucalpytus to begin with?? Well, I suppose that might not be true
in Texas. It's definitely the case in California, though. The tree is
not indigenous to CA, but about 100 years ago, some enterprising fellow
brought some back from Australia and planted them here, thinking that the
wood would be plentiful and of excellent quality, and he'd make a bundle.

Well, he was correct on the first one - they are certainly plentiful
around here. They grow like weeds! But he chose the wrong kind of
eucalyptus to bring over, and the kind we've ended up with doesn't have
very good wood for construction. (Apparently there is another species of
eucalyptus in Australia that does have very durable wood.) So now we
have veritable forests of useless, highly flammable trees in a dry,
fire-prone part of the country. Oops.

I still like them, though - they smell wonderful. And I think they're
pretty, too, even if ubiquitous.

Joyce