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DUANE McDIARMID
ATHENS, OHIO
REESE COLLECTION 1991
Pseudo - Betula chalyb ferruginous,
McDiarmid.
COMMON NAME: Steel False-Birch
| FAMILY: | Pseudo Betula |
| ORDER: | Ferrus Arbor |
| PHYLUM: | Artificialis |
| KINGDOM: | Flora |
| Description: | "Cloud like" sweep of branches with dense ‘lacy
twigs’, textural peeling bark. Color, from silver-grey in youth to
deep reddish brown when mature. |
| Habitat: | De-Forested regions unable to support arcaic organic models.
Well adapted to poor land - drought, damp, waste, etc. |
| Range: | Previously wooded northern industrial latitudes, - (expanding as
"habitat" extends into new regions). |
| Life Cycle: | Manufactured, placed on appropriate site. As the individual ages it
oxidizes turning the mature reddish brown. This process leads to the
individual’s last state of life as a simulated fallen tree (representing natural
decay) before being removed & replaced. Atokous - without offspring. |
| Exhibited: | Section of Proposed Re-Forestation Project, Please place hand on plaque as indicated. |