Queensland - State Bird: Fruit Bat
State Emblem: Cane Toad
Sate Plant: Lantana
New South Wales - State Emblem: Funnel Web Spider
Urban Emblem: Cockie (Cockroach)
Victoria - State Bird: Cockatoo with an overpowering sense of entitlement (feed
me or I'll chew your house).
State Animal: Rabbits, lotsa rabbits.
State Plant: Blackberry infestation
…and so on...
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.soultheft.com
Author/Publisher:
The SLR Compendium:
revised edition -
http://blur.by/19Hb8or
The TLR Compendium
http://blur.by/1eDpqN7
On 15/01/2014, at 6:33 AM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> Don't be dissing the Palmetto Bug, Andrew. That's our state arthropod. Or
> is it the mosquito? No, that's our state bird.
>
> Charlie
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> I was thinking more of those bugs - a terrestrial arthropod as aopposed to
>> the content of the cocktail (I hope).
>> Beyond that, it was a rather mysterious title out here.
>> Andrew Fildes
>> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> www.soultheft.com
>>
>> Author/Publisher:
>> The SLR Compendium:
>> revised edition -
>> http://blur.by/19Hb8or
>> The TLR Compendium
>> http://blur.by/1eDpqN7
>>
>>
>>
>> On 15/01/2014, at 2:39 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>
>>> South Carolina (where Tina lives) is called the "palmetto state" from
>>> the state tree, Sabal Palmetto. It's also the state tree of Florida. In
>>> Florida they're usually called "cabbage palms" since the terminal bud at
>>> the top of the tree was often boiled and eaten like cabbage by indians
>>> and early settlers. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabal_palmetto>
>>> Unfortunately, it kills the tree.
>>
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