Tree of the day

[firefighter ontheside]

I take a picture of the one closest to my house every year when it's blooming.  It seems I deleted the most recent one or I would post it.  My grandpa had these in his yard and they always make me think of him.

[btulloh]

This may give too much away too fast, but . . .



 

[Southside]

@btulloh I'll take some seed pods if you still have them, believe it or not we hardly have any around here.  Now and then I will see one by the side of the road but that is all, have wanted to plant some for a while.  

[btulloh]

I'll have plenty in a month or two when they start bearing.  I'll be glad to share them with you.  I may even deliver them since I like to take the short ride down to your neck of the woods to check on the crops.  There are a couple tobacco plots down your way I like to see.  It's getting difficult to find anyone growing tobacco these days.  

Google will turn up loads of websites that explain how to propagate from seeds.  Not a big deal.  I just take handfuls of pods and scatter them around and let nature take over.  Lower yield, but effective.  I do the same with black walnuts.  Throw them in the loader bucket and dump them in the woods.  The squirrels get excellent germination with the walnuts they plant.

[Southside]

Sounds like a plan. There are only two guys around who got a tobacco contract this year, one is just a few miles from my place on 40, the other is on 1. Both were big growers. Word is 5 years and it's over. I have a bunch of walnuts around the house, to the point you get sick of stepping on them, so we gather them in 5 gallon  pails and dump them in the woods. They should make good lumber trees some day.  The ones we don't get make for great squirrel viewing all winter. 

[btulloh]

We all look forward to those rare opportunities to see a squirrel.

[firefighter ontheside]

We all look forward to those rare opportunities to see a squirrel.

I'd like to see the squirrels that took all the peaches off my trees.  One day they were there and two days later they were all gone.

[caveman]

Today's tree was Eastern Redbud (Cercis Canadensis).  

[caveman]

 
I doubt I will have time to check in in the morning so this will be tomorrow's tree of the day.
 

 

[Don P]

No moosin?

[firefighter ontheside]

A new one on me, though I recognize the genus.

[curdog]

You'll earn your stripes if you get this one right. 

[Magicman]

That pennipalmate leaf is a head scratcher.   

It is known to exist in only two counties in Mississippi, so I have never seen it.  :P   Of course that is true only if I have correctly identified it.  :

[Texas Ranger]

Pardon me, boy, is that the Pennsylvania station?

[caveman]

The foresters who chimed in know what it is.  

[caveman]

Today's tree is Striped Maple (Acer pennsylvanicum).  

[caveman]

Today's tree is another that was found in western North Carolina.


 

 

 The needles are shorter than 4", probably closer to 2-3".

[curdog]

I hope you take as many of today's tree home with you as you can. I'd like to get rid of every one of them....

[nativewolf]

Here in Virginia we feel the same way..but it's hopeless.

[Texas Ranger]

I came up short on this one.

[firefighter ontheside]

I have these trees in Missouri, but they are not native here.  They were planted on our property about 60 years ago.  One of the less important southern yellow pines.

[Texas Ranger]

I don't know Jack about these short needle pines.

[caveman]

Its not worth sprucing up a jack pine lodgepole with sand - something else.

[firefighter ontheside]

Apparently it is known in some places locally as spruce pine or just spruce, even though it's not a spruce.

[firefighter ontheside]

Here's the one in my back yard.