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Ha, completely wrong on all counts, just as you are with everything.
By moving from Puna to Baltimore you have managed to raise the average IQ in both places so at least that's a good thing.
If you want vile, go back and check out some of your own posts, trollboy.
Merry Christmas!
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Originally posted by gypsy69
O.K I will tell you what i think since you asked Paulie. You indeed are an overpaid PIG in Puna. I bet you can't surf, paddle canoe or make your own musubi. Your a lost cause in hawaii who probably has no connection to the remaining Hawaiian culture. I would also bet you have been divorced at least once with the only thing left from your past relationships being Child support. How close am I Soldier?
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If some exotic fungus arrived as ROD in Puna it was most likely on some travelers shoes
Or...
Coquis came in on tropical flower plants from Puerto Rico.
Fire ants were imported on ornamental plants from who knows where.
Marijuana seeds have been smuggled in from all around the world.
All of those carriers could easily have harbored a fungus, which took hold, and found Ohia trees to be an acceptable host. The pot growers bringing in an existing fungal strain from overseas is far, far, far more likely than an existing fungus mutating due to volcanic emissions which have been naturally venting for hundreds of thousands of years.
"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." -James Madison, The Federalist Papers, 1787
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves
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I guess the Aloha spirit doesn't last long on the mainland, huh?!
It seems that the winter chill brings out your bitter side Gypper!
Bundle up old boy, frostbite is no joke...
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It was described in 1890.Hardly a new fungus.
FWIW, this is a large complex of "species" (fungi like this don't really form well-defined species like we think of in animals and plants, because they're very hard to tell apart by appearance, and can hybridize and mutate quickly). There are actually two types of Ceratocystis that are both causing ROD. One is close to one that is found attacking certain ornamental plants, the other is completely unlike any other known types.
My guess is that the second one is an undescribed thing that got here and started attacking ohia, and in the process hybridized with another type that was already present but not causing disease, transferring its ohia infectiveness and creating the other one. But that's just speculation.
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All - feel free to ignore this, but no matter what personal attacks Gypsy makes, and I know that's what he does, it's not worth making you look as bad as him. In my opinion, there's stuff being posted here by both parties that really shouldn't be here.
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Midnight, both types of ceratocystic attacking Ohia (A and B) are different from the Ceratocystis that was here prior.
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We visit Baltimore often. It has a lot of nice museums. Here's some for you to check out Gypsy:
http://avam.org
http://www.thebmi.org
https://thewalters.org
And don't miss the kinetic sculpture race next year:
http://www.kineticbaltimore.com
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Midnight, both types of ceratocystic attacking Ohia (A and B) are different from the Ceratocystis that was here prior.
It's not identical, but as I said above, one of them (I believe it's B) is very closely related to a Ceratocystis that was already present. The other one is very distantly related to any others.
