Tree of the day

[Mooseherder]

The mahogany trees I planted from seed are getting pretty big.  The ones that aren't competing anyway.   A couple are tiny because they're under canopy.  I'll have to post some pics when I get back.  A couple are almost as big as the parent trees.  The biggest shades the driveway where I turn.

[caveman]

DonP, I believe the tree pictured has the same chemical that is in the black willows.  The leaves taste similarly bitter.

[caveman]

The last tree pictured was a European Olive Tree.


If someone here buy's it, I'll suggest to the sellers that they contribute to the FF.

[Ianab]

Here is one from the Islands. This is only a small one on our rental  lawn, but they grow into a small tree. The fruit is edible, if you are hungry enough the ignore the taste.



 


 

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[KEC]

Exotic Tree sp.  :laugh:

[kanoak]

Noni in hawaiian, (Morinda citrifolia). When I tried it, I thought the ripe fruit tastes a lot like bleu cheese. The plant has all kinds of medicinal and other ethnobotanical usages.

Check out http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org/search.asp for a nice flora.

[Ianab]

Yup, it's a Noni. One alternative name is actually Cheese Fruit, due to the taste. It's originally from Sth East Asia, but was spread across the Pacific by the early Polynesian settlers, which is how it got to Hawaii. If can handle drought and salt well so was an important backup food for the Polynesians.

[Don P]

Not a tree but under them, and at least for us these are rare.

[SwampDonkey]

There is a patch across the road here under a butternut tree. It's otherwise a maple grove. The butternut tree looks to have the canker and not doing well. I only find the yellow ones under maples here. We have 2 other kind that grow in softwoods, one is white, the other pink. Those 2 might be the same species.

Under the butternut.

[SwampDonkey]

Canada plum, Prunus nigra

[Don P]

For us the pink ladyslippers are more common for a critically endangered species, the yellows are really rare. These were in a patch of "Canada". We have a few places that are still remnants of much older times, these were there.

These were in poplar which is usually chestnut ground, the pinks are in pine often, I've never seen a white one, cool. I suspect these are going to be gone from here in a few years.


edit to add a good link showing all the varieties;
https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/beauty/cypripedium/index.shtml