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| # Posted 2007-10-11 20:08:50 | |
| bubo: | ...so that´s what grows out there? |
| # Posted 2007-10-11 20:19:05 | |
| jjcote: | Well, I certainly have no idea. Is it in this picture? |
| # Posted 2007-10-11 21:29:31 | |
| Swampfox: | At Happy Jack enbuskar begins life as a little sprig. Then it will most often assume a cushion form. Gradually, as it gains strength and confidence, it spreads, seizing territory from nearby footstrike zones and becomes a living, pulsating, ensnaring carpet of prickery green. It likes shoes, loves gaitors, but sometimes will not compromise, and it will engulf the entire orienteer. If left undisturbed in especially favored places, it may reach waist high and no wise runner will take it on. |
| # Posted 2007-10-11 22:50:59 | |
| jjcote: | Is that the same as "en" ? some kind of juniper? Maybe this stuff? |
| # Posted 2007-10-11 23:02:23 | |
| bubo: | I have no idea what 'enbuskar' at Happy Jack look and behave like, but yes I would say you got hits on both pictures.
'En' in Swedish would be translated as juniper, but I suppose that there are several varietes - tall cone-shaped ones (like in the first pic), small rounded ones and the 'creepy carpet' kind... |
| # Posted 2007-10-11 23:09:35 | |
| jjcote: | Creepy carpet. Hell of a place to lose a golf ball.
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| # Posted 2007-10-12 02:58:08 | |
| Swampfox: | And prickery, when you reach in. That's more like wind bonsai enbuskar. The enbuskar at Happy Jack are much more unruly than that. But it's true their habit is more horizontal and less vertical. And while you will always run around the enbuskar in Sweden (where they occur; I think mainly of the area south of Goteborg, along the coast), there comes a time when you must put your feet *in* the enbuskar at Happy Jack, and that is where all the trouble starts.
We do have a few things you would recognize as being much more similar to your enbuskar, bubo, but we call them junipers instead. But almost nobody cares about junipers because where junipers grow, usually rattlesnakes grow too, and rattlesnakes are much more interesting than junipers. |
| # Posted 2007-10-12 14:33:38 | |
| bubo: | The area around Göteborg came to my mind as well since I´ve encountered lots of enbuskar there making for some really tricky orienteering... |
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