Re: The English/French counting system (WAS:numbersystemsfromconlangs)

Nik Taylor wrote:

> Tristan McLeay wrote:
> > You mean leaves of deciduous(sp?) trees? or native ones? (As far as I
> > know, all Australian trees are evergreen, but foreign ones do leave all
> > their leaves in Winter here.)
>
> I don't know which trees were native and which weren't.  But, the
> deciduous trees lost only a small fraction of their folliage in autumn.
>
At least in urbanized South Florida, there are hardly any native trees, and
most of the imported species are turning out to be disasters (Melaleuca and
Brazilian pepper are taking over the Everglades and drink heavily; the roots
of Banyan and other Ficus spp. head straight for underground water and sewer
pipes.) There are a few Live Oaks, which do better in Central Fla. and
further north; and a native Mahogany tree, which is deciduous usually around
March (especially so if stressed by drought or a hard freeze in Dec/Jan) but
also is producing new growth at the same time it's dropping.  So it has a
lighter, less dense appearance, but never totally bare.