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Re: berry loving black-throated blues



Both Aralia spinosa and Zanthoxylum (= Xanthoxylum) clava-herculis can
be
purchased from Woodlanders in South Carolina
(803-648-7522).  They have a nice selection of native plants.

Aralia is widespread across the Carolinas.  Zanthoxylum is
--at least in North Carolina--largely restricted to the barrier
islands.  I've planted 2 Zanthoxylum in my yard.  I've observed that
at Cape Lookout in the fall the vireos love the Zanthoxylum fruits.

John Fussell
Morehead City, NC
jfuss@clis.com

----- Original Message -----
From: <jsr6@duke.edu>
To: <Carolinabirds@duke.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: berry loving black-throated blues


> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Ward Linda wrote:
> >
> > Today we watched black-throated blue warblers pick
> > berries from three different bushes here in Currituck
> > County, NC:
> > Hearts A'Bustin (Euonymus americanus Linnaeus)
> > Beauty Berry (Callicarpa americana Linnaeus)
> > Devil's Walking Stick or Devil's Club or Toothache Tree  (couldn't
find
> > Latin name)
>
> Hi C-birders,
>
> There are two plants which both share the English names of Devil's
Walking
> Stick, Hercules' Club, and Toothache Tree. One is Aralia spinosa, the
> other Zanthoxylum clava-herculis. For anyone who wants to plant them
in
> their yards, they *ARE* native American species (as are the Callicarpa
and
> Euonymus), as opposed to the things that most landscapers in this
state
> seem to constantly plant. Niche Gardens west of Carrboro
> http://www.nichegdn.com/
> sells Hearts A-bustin' and Beautyberry; not sure where you can buy
either
> species of Devil's Walking Stick.
>
> My wife and I actually planted a pair of Euonymus at our former
apartment
> on Ninth Street, though I think at least one of them died before ever
> making fruit, and this fall planted a Beautyberry (and several other
> wildlife-friendly native plants) in front of our new house after
removing
> about a dozen privets (Ligustrum sp.), a Leland Cypress, a Eurasian
holly,
> and one large "Heavenly" Bamboo (Nandina sp.). All of the removed
plants
> were invasive exotic species (except the cypress, exotic but not
> invasive); I think the "Heaven" where they found Nandina must be the
same
> hot, firey place where they dug up the so-called "Tree of Heaven"
> (Ailanthus altissima)...
>
> Back to birds: heard my first Golden-crowned Kinglets of the autumn
this
> afternoon on the Duke campus while looking for mushrooms for
tomorrow's
> diversity lab. Before that, expanded my new yard list to 51 with an
> Eastern Phoebe that cooperatively perched on our feeder pole and
bobbed
> his tail.
>
> Actually, the kinglets were only my first for NC this fall. I also
heard
> some over the weekend in the Black Hills of South Dakota! Airlie and I
> went there for our anniversary, visiting some friends of mine. Other
bird
> highlights included a Golden Eagle, two Prairie Falcons in
high-altitude
> combat, two flocks of trumpeting Sandhill Cranes soaring high above,
and
> my second-ever Dipper (the first was nearly 20 years ago!).
>
> Good birding,
>
> Josh
>
>
> Joshua S. Rose
> Duke University
> Department of Biology (Zoology, R.I.P.)
>
> jsr6@duke.edu
> http://www.duke.edu/~jsr6/
>
>
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