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Tree Species: May 2011

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Detailed images of the leaves, flowers, fruits and bark of trees. Boxelder Maple - Acer negundo. Boxelder Maple, Box Elder, Maple Ash. Widely planted as an urban tree in cities and parks. 10 - 25 meters. Flood plains, riparian habitats. Wood density and quality:. Odd pinnately compound (imparipinnate) with 3-7 leaflets. Pinnate with alternating secondary veins, netted. 4 - 8 cm (prior to first set of opposite leaflets). Glabrous (smooth, not hairy). Dioecious (male and female are separate trees). The flo...

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Tree Species: November 2008

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Detailed images of the leaves, flowers, fruits and bark of trees. Massive Mountain Bark Beetle Outbreak. Image: dead pine trees. The NY Times has published an article. Today drawing attention to a massive outbreak of Mountain Bark beetles that is killing millions of acres of pine trees in a huge swath all the way from British Columbia to Mexico. According to the USDA Forrest Service. The mountain pine beetle,. Severely affects lodgepole pines, sugar pines and ponderosa pines. According to Wikipedia.

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Tree Notes: How to collect and plant acorns

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Is about trees - especially native trees, trees for wildlife, and trees in history. Thursday, September 13, 2007. How to collect and plant acorns. Starting oak trees from seed. If you want to collect some acorns this fall to plant oak trees, here are some suggestions I've compiled from my own experience and from the sources listed at the bottom of this post:. 4 Avoid exposing the acorns to heat or to unusually moist or dry conditions that might kill the seeds. Keep them in the shade after you collect...

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Tree Notes: I Want a Persimmon Tree!

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Is about trees - especially native trees, trees for wildlife, and trees in history. Thursday, March 1, 2007. I Want a Persimmon Tree! Possum tree, possumwood, common persimmon. I've been thinking about planting a persimmon tree. Persimmon trees are native to this area (and to the entire southeastern United States.). Persimmon leaf and bark. The wildlife value of the tree is nice, but I hope there will be enough fruit left for us people, too! Here's something interesting from history about the flavor of t...

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Tree Notes: Narrow trees for small spaces

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Is about trees - especially native trees, trees for wildlife, and trees in history. Friday, April 20, 2007. Narrow trees for small spaces. Native trees with small crowns. Shape can be one of the most important attributes to consider when choosing a tree. If your garden is small, you probably don't have room for a tree with a wide crown. For the smallest of spaces, you'll need a tree that is narrow or even columnar in shape. Be aware when choosing such a tree that it won't make much shade! Three fast-grow...

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Tree Notes: Free Tree Information

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Is about trees - especially native trees, trees for wildlife, and trees in history. Tuesday, January 4, 2011. Tree Info to download. On the Purdue University Extension Service. Posted by Genevieve Netz. 3 comments - please add yours:. Thanks for the tree resource - always nice to bookmark. Have a good new year - barbara. January 5, 2011 at 7:51 AM. Good to have this info. Glad you are back. Happy New Year. January 5, 2011 at 8:39 AM. January 5, 2011 at 10:53 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Ten na...

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Tree Notes: Identifying pines

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Is about trees - especially native trees, trees for wildlife, and trees in history. Thursday, July 19, 2007. Some native pines of the United States, listed by the number of needles per bundle. Here are a few of the native pines of the United States, listed by the number of needles per bundle they have. I've also noted their natural range (in very general terms). Their Latin names are linked to a tree identification page at the Virginia Tech Dendrology website. Two needles per bundle:. Shortleaf pine (Sou...

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Tree Notes: Hawthorn trees and wildlife

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Is about trees - especially native trees, trees for wildlife, and trees in history. Sunday, November 4, 2007. Hawthorn trees and wildlife. Berries of the Washington hawthorn, Crataegus phaenopyrum. These cheery red berries are the autumn fruit of a thorny little Washington hawthorn tree I planted about a dozen years ago. I got it in a bundle of ten free ornamental trees from Arbor Day Foundation. American Wildlife and Plants. In a winter of scarce food, I suspect those birds and animals would be glad eno...

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Tree Notes: Black cherry: A tree for wildlife

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Is about trees - especially native trees, trees for wildlife, and trees in history. Friday, July 13, 2007. Black cherry: A tree for wildlife. An American wild cherry. The United States has fourteen species of wild cherries and all of them are important food sources for wildlife. The authors of American Wildlife and Plants. Mention the following as widespread species of particular importance:. The eastern and western chokecherries ( Prunus virginiana. The black cherry ( Prunus serotina. Is seen along coun...

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Tree Notes: The Durable Wood of the Black Locust Tree

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Is about trees - especially native trees, trees for wildlife, and trees in history. Monday, February 26, 2007. The Durable Wood of the Black Locust Tree. Robinia pseudoacacia, famed for fenceposts. Robinia pseudoacacia, by. Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840). The following paragraphs were published in the magazine, Scientific American. The following notes relative to the duration of the locust wood ( Robinia pseudo acacia,. Have been made by M. Pepin, Jardin du Roi, Paris :. Who states that this fence was.