Thanks timr at Green Living London for updating us on ash dieback.
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Also on the ash diebac:
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=29984
diebac=dieback 🙂
Yes the response is about 5 years too late. But here we are. What do you think should be done now?
I’m intrigued by what the Socialist Worker says about Japanese tree strains. Do you know where the science is about that?
I’ve just done some goofling and found nothing about resistant strains of F. excelsior in Japan. The current article on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_dieback mentions ‘an Asian species known as Manchurian ash (Fraxinus mandschurica)’ so perhaps the Socialist Worker journalist was talking about hybrids between that species and our European F. excelsior.
Here’s what Wikipedia says about the Manchurian ash http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraxinus_mandschurica It doesn’t sound suitable for Britain because it needs the seasonal extremes of a continental climate.