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STUDENT: How do you
know the difference
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between this and Carpinus?
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Well for one thing,
the new growth-- Fagus
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usually has these little soft
hairs all over the new growth.
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Carpinus doesn't do that.
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INTERVIEWER: I got to tag
along with my old professor.
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My professor of old, Dr.
John Nelson, and his spring
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flora class.
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And we came to Riverbanks
Botanical Garden.
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And John you asked
them first of all
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to tell you what physical
geographic area they were in.
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Right, what physiographic
region we were in.
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And they all answered
with a great shout,
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"We're in the
Piedmont, Dr. Nelson!"
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And they were right.
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INTERVIEWER: Well if you're in
an area that's the Piedmont,
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are there certain plants
that you would expect to see,
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that we did see today?
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JOHN NELSON: Well, the
Piedmont is a big area
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and there are all sorts
of plants that are in it.
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And then what we
have around here
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is a lot of the
native species are
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very characteristic of
mesophytic forest, including
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Sweetgum and Yellow Poplar.
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And of course we have Ostrya,
or Hornbeam, as well as
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Musclewood Carpinus, a variety
of things, and of course,
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a lot of shrubs, and herbs,
that go along with that, too.
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INTERVIEWER: Mesophytic meaning?
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JOHN NELSON: Just meaning
that it's sort of medium,
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as far as water, but a
substantial amount of water,
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so that you have a
lot more plants that
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really dig having water
than, say, in the Sandhills.
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INTERVIEWER: John I remember
being so excited when I came
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here with you in our class.
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And you said you can still
remember the excitement when
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you came here your first time.
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JOHN NELSON: One of the
reasons I became a botanist, I
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remember that I was in Dr.
Batson's class back in 1973.
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And we came to this
very same place.
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Of course there weren't
trails here then.
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But all of the
native species were,
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including gorgeous, gorgeous
trilliums, and windflower.
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All sorts of things are still
here and very, very beautiful.
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INTERVIEWER: Aren't we lucky
to have Riverbanks Botanical
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Garden?
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Because we've got an incredibly
diverse and fascinating planned
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garden and community.
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But then we also have
access to this natural area.
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I think we're so lucky.
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JOHN NELSON: I think so.
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And I hope that my
students kind of appreciate
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that they are being exposed
to just a fabulous garden up
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on the hill, with all those
wonderful showy flowers.
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But they're also able to take
advantage of natural ecosystems
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that are so
well-documented here.
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INTERVIEWER: I hope that
you've turned a lot of them
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into plant freaks
and they'll be just
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like me spending the rest of
their life wandering around
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with hand lenses--
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JOHN NELSON: Oh, yeah.
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I got my florascope, too.
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INTERVIEWER: --enjoying
this wonderful world
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that we live in South Carolina.
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I hope they all will.
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Thanks for letting
us tag along.
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You're very welcome.
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Bye!
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Bye!
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Team "Making It Grow" tags along with The University of South Carolina's Director of The AC Moore Herbarium Dr. John Nelson and his Spring Flora Botany Class. They tour the native plants along the trails of the Riverbanks Zoo and Garden.
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