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sprucebunny

July 15, 2008, 08:03:01 PM
These trees aren't very common around here and they seem very different; almost tropical to me. The map on the included link shows that they grow in a wide range of climates.
Do you have a picture of an element of the life cycle of this tree that you could add ?

http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=TIAM&photoID=tiam_009_avp.jpg





It has an interesting smell, very faint.


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Dodgy Loner

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July 16, 2008, 01:20:34 PM
Those are some pretty prolific blooms.  The ones around here don't make nearly as many.
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SwampDonkey

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July 16, 2008, 04:09:03 PM
Mine are not opened up yet like sprucebunny's. But the blooms are abundant/prolific on my trees. Not as heavy set as in sprucebunny's though. I also discovered the one basswood I have on my woodlot is flowering for the first time this year.

Are those the native American basswood or European in your picture? My wild ones I transplanted to the yard have a strong smell, much like orange blossoms. You need to be close to them to get a strong whiff. They are not real common up here, but not rare either.

Mmmm the smell of basswood blooms.  :)

I think Corley5 has a lot in his woods and Gary_C has cut a lot of them as well.

However, it does not grow as far north as indicated on your map. The USDA has a more specific map of it's range somewhere on their site.
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SwampDonkey

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July 16, 2008, 04:28:24 PM


Today on my yard tree.
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July 16, 2008, 04:43:18 PM



closeup of bloom
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#5
July 16, 2008, 04:50:08 PM


Here is one further along from last year.
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July 16, 2008, 06:12:52 PM


Basswood fruit. They have a nut-like seed.
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July 17, 2008, 06:07:43 AM
Seed take 2 or more years to germinate and cotyledons are palmate (5 -lobed). Growth is rapid, rooting is deep and wide spreading and very wind firm. Leaves were found to have highest contest of calcium and magnesium of 24 tree species studied and leaves yield a significant amount of N-P-K, considered a good soil improver.
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Dodgy Loner

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July 17, 2008, 10:23:17 AM
Great pictures, SD. :)
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Don P

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July 18, 2008, 10:15:48 PM
The only part of the life cycle I have handy at the moment is later and squarer, and planed  ;D

Basswood was an early bast (fiber) source for thread and rope and woven goods from the stringy inner bark, that's where the name comes from.

Checking on an old friend the other day I found out that Carl Linnaeus's last name comes from linne' ... linden, the basswood. He was the fellow that created the scientific latin binomial naming system we still use today.
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