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Forum: Native Plants and Wild PlantsReplies: 61, Views: 196
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Colquhoun
Champaign, IL
(Zone 5b)

June 19, 2006
03:20 PM

Post #2408958

My son asked and interesting question yesterday..
How long before something can be considered a native. Yams are not native to the south pacific but have been growing there at least four thousand years. Iganunas rafted to several carribean islands in the last ten years thanks to hurricanes.. all the trees in Illinios have came in the last ten thousand years.. many much more recently. Armidillos are now expanding into Kentucky.. replacing the native Armidillo that died out ten thousand years ago. Darwin's finches are clearly native to galapogos islands.. but orginally a finches got lost and landed there as invaders.

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