Trees

[Ternigapp]

Can anyone help with the following:

38. English hair gone north of the border (5,3)
43. Twas around with the dinasaurs (6,6)
45. For now, I'll watch the inner me (6)
46. Tropical storm loses half a century (7)
47. Tree of life to the Romans (6,5)

Thank you

[johnalex]

47. Lignum vitae

[sarumite]

46. Apricot ? .. tropical to lose L (50) then anag.

[gen2]

43 Ginkgo biloba

[johnalex]

46. Apricot . . . . >tropica< . . . . (L=50)

[johnalex]

Howdy Sarumite - you beat me by 1 nanosecond (again!) ja

[sarumite]

Hi ja ... I ignored the speed traps ! :o)

[johnalex]

You could say we've got 9 . . . . (3 trees are 9 !)

[slaney]

43. Monkey puzzle ?

[gen2]

38 English Hair becomes Scots Fir North of the border, thow nowadays it is more usually called the Scots Pine.

[gen2]

I still think 43 is Ginkgo biloba. several sites say things along the line of 'Ginkgo biloba trees are the oldest in the world, lone survivors of a family that shared the earth with dinosaurs'

(That was until someone discovered the Woolamai pine)

[slaney]

I'm sure you are right about the Ginkgo biloba, gen2, but monkey puzzle trees have also been around since the time of the dinosaurs. Not sure which is oldest.

[slaney]

Monkey puzzle only 60 million years old,ginkgo biloba 270 million years old , so no contest!

[Ternigapp]

Thank you all for your answers.

gen2/slaney - think I'll go with Ginkgo biloba. I've just been looking in the Reader's Digest book which says that it flourished 250 million years ago.

johnalex/sarumite - I like your sense of humour, I'm full of cold at the moment and you two have really cheered me up with your banter!