From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2008-08-28 18:11:08 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: ferret litters and bedding, and is drs foster and smith and evo foods good
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "Sukie Crandall" <sukie@...> wrote:
>
> Aspen is a harder pine with lowered amount of volatile oils than softer pines tend to
have
> from what I have read. let's see if I can find how much.
>
OUCH! I am WRONG!
Aspen is a common name and I though that there was a
pine to which that name was given but instead everything
I find involves deciduous trees instead, so apologies for my
screw up:
There are multiple aspens since aspen is a common name
rather than a taxonomic one. European Aspen is in genus
Populus, the same genus as Poplar:
http://biotech.jrc.it/deliberate/taxonomy.asp
and I knew better when I thought "pine" in my post but had
a brain block. In the U.S. there is Quaking Aspen which is
certainly not a pine:
http://bss.sfsu.edu/geog/bholzman/courses/Fall99Projects/aspen.htm
Apparently, all Aspens are poplar relatives:
http://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/34292
So, even bigger apologies. What can i say? I am only human
rather than a perfect ferret.
**** Well, THAT explains why it is a harder wood and why the pine
volatile oils warning doesn't extend to Aspen!****
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