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Message:	[quote author=kimby board=photo thread=2350 post=73636 time=1271345968][quote author=deyana board=photo thread=2350 post=73096 time=1271102359] I don't really know my trees very well, it might very well be a chokecherry. I'll have to go and check in the summer months...as long as I can find it again.[/quote] You can find it, just look for the "black knot" ;)[/quote] Expand
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Posted by deyana on Sept 16, 2009, 8:46pm

So many nice ones around here. I thought I'd post some pics. I took yesterday whilst on a walk. If you have any of trees that you'd like to share, please post them on here:

The ATV's have been over this patch quite a few times now:

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Posted by spindrift on Sept 17, 2009, 4:31pm

See those pine trees with their low bare branches? I used to have a lot of those in the woodland on my farm and I used a saw to take off the lowest branches so we could walk through. The children make a 'camp' on the carpet of pineneedles.

Posted by deyana on Sept 17, 2009, 9:10pm

Yep, pine needles are good for that, make a nice base for the tent when out camping too.

Posted by lola on Sept 18, 2009, 3:15am

I love the smell of pine woods.

Posted by kerouac2 on Sept 18, 2009, 1:01pm

While wandering around the grounds of the Wat Pho temple complex in Bangkok, I came across this unusual tree and clearly ancient tree, which had inexplicably lost its leaves but was growing new ones. Why would this happen at this time of year in a place without seasons?

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At the same time, it was blooming, but the very strange flowers emerge from little stems on the trunk of the tree, totally different from the other branches.

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I found that I needed to sit and look at this tree, so I found a bench in the shade and just tried to piece it together into a logical item of vegetation.

While I was sitting there, a tour guide came by with a tourist couple and explained to them that this tree was of capital importance, because the Buddha was born and also died in the shade of such a tree more than 2500 years ago.

I looked it up on the internet and found that it is a sala tree, one of the oldest living fossil plants in the world. They are diminishing in number in Southeast Asia, because they are very difficult to keep alive with the changing climate, and new ones refuse to grow.

Posted by deyana on Sept 18, 2009, 1:09pm

What an interesting tree. It looks like it's having a battle with itself, but wanting so badly to survive and not die. (I know, I'm such a romantic aren't I)

I wonder what other countries are home to this kind of tree?

Posted by spindrift on Sept 18, 2009, 4:49pm

They must also be in Lumbini in Nepal. I was there but I didn't see a tree like that one. The Buddha was born at Lumbini. And yes, he was born and died under a Sala tree. It's exquisitely beautiful.

Posted by bixaorellana on Sept 18, 2009, 6:09pm

What a lovely legend, and a fascinating tree and flower!

Posted by bixaorellana on Sept 24, 2009, 6:50am

The dwindling loquats on the tree by my porch:
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Posted by bixaorellana on Sept 29, 2009, 7:10am

Eucalyptus tree in El Llano park in Oaxaca. Taken today.

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NOTE: this picture was uploaded with the nifty new feature to be found at the very bottom of every page of AnyPort, on the far left. I suggest right-clicking on it & selecting Open Link in New Window. Please be sure to resize your large pictures (select "message board 640x480")

Posted by deyana on Apr 2, 2010, 3:36pm

A squirrel nest up in a tree in the park:

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Posted by deyana on Apr 12, 2010, 3:30pm

Trees in the woods at the back of my house:

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We have quite a few squirrels around the area, I tried to get a photo of a couple yesterday but they were too quick for me. But here are a bunch of squirrel nests in this tree. I'm just fascinated as to why they would build so many on the one tree?

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I was trying find things in bloom (for casi's gardening thread), but the best I could come up with is this - and I think it's only moss of some kind on the tree:

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Posted by deyana on Apr 12, 2010, 3:32pm

Anyone have any idea what this stuff is on the tree? It can be picked off and feels like soft cotton - kind of:

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Posted by deyana on Apr 12, 2010, 3:34pm

And what is this black sticky kind of substance that is on some of the branches on some trees/bushes?:

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And here it is again:

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Posted by deyana on Apr 12, 2010, 3:37pm

This huge tree ( I couldn't get it all in the picture frame) has simply been pulled out by the roots - probably by the strong windy storms we get in the winter months:

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Posted by kimby on Apr 12, 2010, 4:32pm

Apr 12, 2010, 3:32pm, deyana wrote:

Anyone have any idea what this stuff is on the tree? It can be picked off and feels like soft cotton - kind of

reply # 12

I know, I know! It's a lichen. Don't ask me which one, though. (There are actually at least TWO kinds in this photo.)
Lichens are symbiotic conjoining of an algae and a fungus. The fungus provides the structure and the algae the chlorophyll for their coexistence.

Apr 12, 2010, 3:34pm, deyana wrote:

And what is this black sticky kind of substance that is on some of the branches on some trees/bushes?

reply # 13

This is called "black knot fungus" and it's found only on cherry trees and its relatives. Is this a chokecherry?

Posted by deyana on Apr 12, 2010, 7:59pm

Quote by Kimby: '' Lichens are symbiotic conjoining of an algae and a fungus. The fungus provides the structure and the algae the chlorophyll for their coexistence.

This is called "black knot fungus" and it's found only on cherry trees and its relatives. Is this a chokecherry?''

Thanks, Kimby. Now I know what it is! I couldn't take my eyes off the stuff and was wondering and wondering.... I don't really know my trees very well, it might very well be a chokecherry. I'll have to go and check in the summer months...as long as I can find it again.

Posted by kimby on Apr 15, 2010, 3:39pm

Apr 12, 2010, 7:59pm, deyana wrote:

I don't really know my trees very well, it might very well be a chokecherry. I'll have to go and check in the summer months...as long as I can find it again.

You can find it, just look for the "black knot"

Posted by deyana on Apr 15, 2010, 9:30pm

Kimby, you do know how many acres I live around? Miles and miles of wood land....

Posted by kimby on Apr 15, 2010, 9:38pm

If there's a little black knot, there's probably a lot. Find a different one!

Posted by deyana on Apr 15, 2010, 9:43pm

I should be able to do that then. As long it's not the exact same knot.

And if I can get though the bushs in the summer.

Posted by bixaorellana on Apr 17, 2010, 7:28am

Pirul ~ pink peppercorn tree ~ Schinus molle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schinus_molle

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Posted by bixaorellana on Apr 26, 2010, 3:30am

Delonix regia

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Posted by casimira on Apr 26, 2010, 11:12am

What an outrageous tree Bixa!! I can't decide which shot I like the best,they're all wonderful. Is this a tree in the city or out where you are?

Posted by bjd on Apr 26, 2010, 11:26am

This is one tree in the centre of Buenos Aires. I don't know what kind it is -- I think it's some kind of rubber or gum tree.
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Here it is closer to the trunk
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Posted by deyana on Apr 26, 2010, 2:40pm

Wow, that bottom tree looks like it must be at least 100 years old, bjd. Any idea of it's age?

Here's one with no leaves (as yet):

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Posted by bixaorellana on Apr 26, 2010, 3:50pm

Apr 26, 2010, 11:12am, casimira wrote:

What an outrageous tree Bixa!! I can't decide which shot I like the best,they're all wonderful. Is this a tree in the city or out where you are?

Oh ~~ thanks so much. Please go here, Reply #283 for some details and to see that tree in situ.

Posted by kerouac2 on May 4, 2010, 8:46pm

Posted by imec on May 4, 2010, 9:00pm

Very nice k2! (great depth of field!)

Posted by kerouac2 on May 4, 2010, 9:03pm

That is in creepy volcanic Auvergne, a few years ago.


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