On the human colony planet, Europe Neuve:
"...everywhere trees, Earth's green chestnut and poplar mingled with golden bellefleur and gracis." (p. 173)
This is like a microcosm of the mixed ecologies to be found in Poul Anderson's Technic History, e.g.:
surgeon trees (scroll down)
There are too many to list. These links also refer to other Ythrian, Avalonian and Aenean trees, grass equivalents etc.
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I fully expect the fauna and flora of terrestroid planets to be different from what we see on Earth. That should be something anyone who thinks about this for a minute should immediately accept.
Ad astra! Sean
Tho' plants need companion species of soil bacteria. Hmmmm... or maybe they just need the -products- of soil bacteria -- like nitrogen fixation.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
In TWILIGHT WORLD Anderson had Earth suffering environmental devastation when a nuclear war messing up nitrogen fixation in the soil.
Ad astra! Sean
S.M. Stirling:
"Tho' plants need companion species of soil bacteria."
My understanding is that there is a lot of symbiosis between trees and fungi, with the fungi bringing some minerals to the tree through long filaments & the tree providing sugars for energy. So getting a tree to grow in a new environment would need getting the fungus to live in the soil too.
Kaor, Jim!
An interesting point, one I've never seen before.
Ad astra! Sean
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