Newsgroup: it.discussioni.misteri
Titolo: Un mistero?

Un mio amico mi ha mandato questa mail. Non commento. Ma potrebbe
interessare.
Per chi non capisce l'inglese si tratta, fondamentalemente, di un albero di
400/500 anni originario solo della Nuova Zelanda è stato trovato vivo e
vegeto in Spagna.
La Nuova Zelanda è stata "scoperta" nel 1769.
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         con rispetto
ALBION OF AVALON
New Zealand Herald (Auckland) 21 September 2001:
   "A pohutukawa tree in Spain has stirred up debate on whether the
    Spanish were the first Europeans to reach New Zealand, before the
    Dutch and the British.
    The giant pohutukawa is a big attraction in the Spanish north-west
    coastal city of La Corunna, capital of the province of Galicia.
    La Corunna's mayor chose the tree as the city's floral emblem, and
    many locals believe it to be 400 to 500 years old.
    This would mean it came to Spain before Captain Cook sailed to New
    Zealand in 1769, and possibly even before Abel Tasman's voyage in
    1642.
    But Landcare Research botanist Dr Warwick Harris, who recently
    visited La Corunna, has another idea on how a New Zealand native
    got to Spain.
    "I have the romantic idea that it was brought into Spain by the
    British during the Napoleonic Wars and can be linked to the heroic
    story of Sir John Moore," he said.
    Moore took a small British army into Spain in 1808 to check the
    French invasion, but was forced to retreat, pursued by Napoleon
    Bonaparte and a huge army.
    Moore eventually led his men more than 400km to La Corunna, where
    British ships were waiting, but in the last phase of the
    evacuation his arm was blown off by a French cannon and he died.
    "At some stage the British must have recovered Moore's body, and
    laid him in a tomb in what; is now the Garden of San Carlos,
    created in 1834," said Dr Harris.
    "We know that Captain Cook brought back plants from his first
     voyage to New Zealand  and within 10 years there was commerce in
     those plants in England.  We don't know about pohutukawa but we
     do know that the British were largely responsible for introducing
     New Zealand plants to Europe".
     Dr Harris said pohutukawa thrived in the frost- and pest-free
     coastal regions of Galicia."
This has been discussed on local radio (New Zealand) and it appears as
though, while there are many varieties of the pohutukawa throughout
the Pacific, they are all descendents of the New Zealand variety and
can be distinguished from the original New Zealand tree by an expert
(such as Dr Harris) so it is very likely that the tree is indeed  the
native New Zealand variety.
Not withstanding the fact that the formal history has the first formal
sighting of New Zealand by a European being by Abel Tasman and the
later exploration being by James Cook, there is plenty of evidence of
earlier contacts by Spanish, Portugese and possibly even Dutch. It
therefore would not be surprising if a uniquely New Zealand tree
turned up in Spanish hands well before the dates of official history.
Harris's theory about Sir Thomas Moore may well be correct but it is
not necessarily the most credible explanation. A little
dendrochronology may through some light into a presently unsuspected
corner of history.
Eric Stevens
There are two classes of people. Those who divide people into
two classes, and those who don't. I belong to the second class.

 La Nuova Zelanda è stata "scoperta" nel 1769.
Evidentemente o non era originario della Nuova Zelanda, o è stato
portato in giro da una civiltà precedente.
Bye Krmel "elementare, Watson"
-- 
"La massima cultura accessibile all'intelligenza umana non sara',
se essa rifiuta a se stessa ogni risorsa che le proviene dalla sua
coscienza spirituale superiore, che un procedere preparatorio,
in confronto a cio' che potrebbe diventare se, con le facolta'
sufficientemente sviluppate, potesse entrare coscientemente in
relazione col piano o con gli aspetti iperfisici della Natura".
William Scott/Elliot, "Storia dell'Atlantide"

ciao..forse perchè gli uccelli migrano..mangiano semi e per fare semi ci
vuole un albero o viceversa :-)
Ma a volte sembrerà strano ma anche i venti fanno la loro bella funzione...
Pier
"Krm£l" <non.usar...@non.funzionerebbe> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:tvomrtkprq7vrq3m7...@4ax.com...
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 Ma a volte sembrerà strano ma anche i venti fanno la loro bella funzione...
Con un oceano di mezzo, e migliaia di chilometri di distanza, la vedo
dura... Comunque un vettore c'è stato di sicuro.
Bye Krmel
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