Ha-dee-hah. I draw support for "voluptuous", and inspiration from poet Geoffrey
Lehmann, describing one at West Head (sorry), Sydney:
"The trunk of this angophora is extraordinary. It's like a woman's body and the
distinctive thing about it is that it's hardly got any leaves. Northern
hemisphere trees have absolutely beautiful foliage; dazzingly green foliage.
The foliage of our trees is not so dazzingly green. But it's the body that's
the beautiful part of it; these wonderful contorted limbs, and its great life
system. It's almost a planet in itself. So the shape of it, and its wonderful
limbs and the fleshiness of it..... it's quite a sexual tree really."
Goodnight
----Original Message-----
>From: "Allan Richards" <>
>To: <>; "Bruce Roubin" <>
>Cc: "birding" <>
>Subject: Re: [BIRDING-AUS] Raptors close to city Sydney
>Date: Friday, May 11, 2001 10:16 PM
>
>Colin
>
>Bruce obviously is referring to Angophoras but I would described them as
>"corpulent old 'gophs" rather than "voluptious". Maybe our friend Bruce is
>having a sensual affair with an old goph?
>
>Allan Richards
>
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