What's up, up, Fungal Associates? Welcome to Completely Arbitrary.

The podcast about trees and other related topics. I'm one of your hosts. My name is Alex Croson.

Of course, sitting across from me on the Davenport, this Casey clap.

Hello. Casey, why am I speaking in such a way?

Well, Alex, I think it's because you are as you've described yourself, a Anglofile.

Only when it comes to TV shows.

Well, the real reason I'm speaking in this manner, of course,

is today we are talking about a British tree.

The English Holly.

Yes.

Yeah, all right.

It is in the name, though, I don't believe that this is explicitly a tree that only grows there.

I think it actually also grows throughout Europe.

Okay.

Pretty widely, in fact.

Is it it's native to all of all those places?

Yeah, it is.

Yeah, so it's over there on the islands, the Emerald Island

and the normal colored one I suppose

Yeah, as Oz mostly and well actually no I can't say it's actually native to Oz

But there's probably a species native to Oz okay Okay. But this one is particular to Europe. Okay. And yeah, it goes all the way down into Italy, goes over into like the eastern Baltics. It goes up in the mountains all through central France and Germany all that place well in that in that

regard let me yeah what's your what's your next accent give me a European accent I'm gonna

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