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Title: false maple on new Notes
Post by: polymat on January 19, 2013, 07:18:04 am
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/canada/9812709/Outcry-as-Canada-puts-foreign-maple-leaf-on-new-banknotes.html

NORGE MAPLE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_platanoides
CANADA MAPLE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_saccharum
Title: Re: false maple on new Notes
Post by: polymat on January 19, 2013, 07:39:30 am
{http://www.polymernotes.de/amerika/kanada/ahorn.jpg}
Title: Re: false maple on new Notes
Post by: Dean on January 19, 2013, 10:25:33 am
All I can think of is the "sorry, you lost" tune from The Price is Right playing in the background right now...LOL!

 :D
Title: Re: false maple on new Notes
Post by: polymat on January 20, 2013, 06:40:57 am
AND HERE BBC NEWS

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21106812
Title: Re: false maple on new Notes
Post by: Marc on January 22, 2013, 01:00:58 pm
I agree.  They should have put the Sugar Maple.  The Norwegian Maple is an invasive species, a pest.
Title: Re: false maple on new Notes
Post by: Seth on January 22, 2013, 05:21:53 pm
I think this is much ado about nothing. It's a stylized maple leaf, as is the maple leaf on the flag. Neither one looks like any real leaf from any type of maple tree, nor is either supposed to.

I suppose that some will insist that it's a Norwegian maple and will object to it on the basis that even though they've been growing here for more than a century, they're not native to Canada. So? Neither was Sir John A. Macdonald, and I've never heard an objection to his presence on our money.

Don't even get me started on the queen!