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Title: Inner space whatzit?
Post by: Jeff on April 21, 2006, 07:30:34 PM

Closest view. :)

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Title: Re: Inner space whatzit?
Post by: LeeB on April 22, 2006, 02:04:49 AM

milk weed pod. LeeB

Title: Re: Inner space whatzit?
Post by: Jeff on April 22, 2006, 02:08:37 AM

nope. think spring. :)

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Post by: Ron Wenrich on April 22, 2006, 10:14:46 AM

maple flower

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Post by: Texas Ranger on April 22, 2006, 01:22:33 PM

cheese gone bad in the fridg

Title: Re: Inner space whatzit?
Post by: SwampDonkey on April 22, 2006, 02:44:23 PM

Kinda hard to tell, but I'm guessing it's aspen or willow flowers.

Title: Re: Inner space whatzit?
Post by: Jeff on April 22, 2006, 04:26:59 PM

Hard to stump da donk. :)

Yep. Aspen Catkins.

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/innerspace_2.jpg)

Now Donk, Male or female? :) (not you, the catkins :D )

Title: Re: Inner space whatzit?
Post by: SwampDonkey on April 22, 2006, 05:11:32 PM

Those would be male if they're releasing pollen. The female flowers are on separate trees and the pods (fruit) of the female open up to release wads of cotton with a tiny seed attached to each strand. ;D Our trembling aspen around here is starting to look sickly from disease. I don't know what hit them last year, but they took a terrible hammering. Didn't even turn yellow in the fall, just went from green to dead brown. I always said the first crop of aspen is going to be the best, I don't think the suckered stuff does as well.

Have ya guessed what that tiny flower is yet I posted a bit ago? If no one guesses, I'll keep adding pics as it develops into the fruit. You might be surprised. ;)

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