User talk:Gshearman

G'day, welcome to Wikipedia. Hesperian 12:51, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Elaeocarpus
Cheers for your addition to the article. I see that one of the bird articles you linked mentions Elaeocarpus, but not whether the species was Elaeocarpus angustifolius, and the other says nothing. The good news is that when you produce a reference we can expand all these articles. I also noticed that you intended to remove Cassowary in your edit summary, but it remains in place. What are your intentions regarding that? cygnis insignis 14:19, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I'm not sure if this is how I'm supposed to reply). I intended to remove Cassowary as being the sole vector of E. angustifolius distribution as the Blue Quandong has a much larger distribution than the Cassowary. I see that you've now update the page to indicate that it needs to pass through an animal's intestine to germinate, again I would disagree with this, although it may in fact speed up the germination process. I used to work in a native rainforest nursery where we would collect large bags of quandong seeds, soak them in a bath tub for a few days then drive over them repeatedly to try and crack the stone. After this germination would be extremely rapid and very high (>90%).Gshearman (talk) 23:19, 4 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Welcome, happy to help if you are still finding your way around. You can reply here, at my talk, or on the articles talk page. I added this reference to one sentence and added the tag "citation needed" to the bit about germination. The article on Elaeocarpus angustifolius is probably the best place to expand on the germination, as I have tried to do with Santalum species. I don't what the source was for the unverified fact. Some of the Sandalwoods are distributed by emus, and people once buried them for lean times. Do you know if the (very Australian) solution of driving over them was written up anywhere? cygnis insignis 06:13, 5 October 2008 (UTC)