Tree of the day

[Don P]

 :D, there's one outside the window here.

[Ljohnsaw]

First one just for fun. Duken' it out 😉


 
What a magnificent specimen. At the Lismore Castle gardens in Lismore, Ireland.


 

 
This was posted in my Traveling Abroad thread because I couldn't get this thread up. From west of Dublin, Ireland.


 

 

 

 

 

 

[Don P]

Sunny ;D

[doc henderson]

the first two trees must be bothers

[Don P]

Its a beech, I'm going out on a ... limb, and guessing its a european beech.
Fagus sylvatica - Wikipedia

[Ljohnsaw]

Its a beech, I'm going out on a ... limb, and guessing its a european beech.
Fagus sylvatica - Wikipedia

Yes. At one of the gardens was another that looked identical but the Latin name said it was the copper version. No red/brown leaves so I think it was mis-labeled.

[Don P]

I think I forgot to post this one. This was a week or so ago, the blooms have just finished up now.


 
And a very good example of pinnate venation.

[Don P]

A shrub version with a different bloom;


 

[firefighter ontheside]

Ok all, I went to the botanical garden in Zagreb Croatia yesterday.  There were lots of trees and I took lots of pictures.  I'm going to post 2 trees for fun.  Don't assume these trees are where they belong.  One was special to me because of the house I built and live in.  The other is something I definitely don't see at home.  So, here's the first.

 

 

[firefighter ontheside]

And here's the other.  


 

 

[Don P]

Their native one is pinus sylvestris, scots pine, a relative of our red pine which is the only native New World Member of that family of hard pines.
Blue spruce on the other?

We were tslking about the high natural decay resistance of this one recently. It does have one fault, this is a particularly nice one  ;D


 
Not quite that bad, this is actually the worst I've seen but they are not known for fine form. This is near a top corner, we know it as the Z tree.

These are about to finish up;


 

[firefighter ontheside]

The first one was Red Pine, which is what my house logs are.  The other one is not blue spruce, though they did have a few Colorado Blue spruce there.  It is cedar of lebanon.

[Jeff]

I've posted this before in the fall, but here it is in late spring. My favorite tree on the property. Pagoda Dogwood



 

 

 

 

 

[Don P]

There were 2 of those on the property when we bought it but they are gone now. I like them too and don't see many.

The Z tree in my post above is a chestnut oak, the flowers are mountain laurel.

I drove a friend to Salem today for a poke and pry at the VA so I had a few hours to burn. It was just drizzly, and out the door I went. The huge white oak at the main building entrance failed to leaf out this year, that was sad to see. The campus is large, old, and landscaped. I think it was mostly built between World Wars. Although it is a couple of hours north of us it is warmer there, they brought in a good number of trees that probably wouldn't survive here, and some are 3' in diameter. That campus is an arboretum. I could also see some new plantings, one was a sort of private "room" they had planted near one of the residence buildings.

We try to grow a cold hardy version of this but it has been racked by ice several times., they have several nice ones that were blooming.


 
These Ginko's were flanking one building and were taller than its 3 stories.


 


The newer tree of choice seems to be thornless honey locust, there were several lanes of it. I did see leaf miner damage similar to black locust. I only noticed pods on one.

 


 

This willow oak is a beauty


 

 

And I need one of you all on this one;

[KEC]

Basswood, some kind of linden maybe.

[rusticretreater]

American Basswood

[Magicman]

I love that Southern Magnolia

Mississippi's State tree and State Flower.

[caveman]

I have one for tree of the day.  It has been a while since I posted here.


This will show the form and the location of the tree.  This is in N. Central Fla.

I'm not sure if any are visible in this picture but there are some small fruits that are about the size and shape of a blueberry.  These are found growing in southern pine flatwoods.  

[caveman]

Sorry that I did not have better pictures.  The last one posted is a sparkleberry (Ericaceae vaccinium).Virginia Tech Dendrology Fact Sheet (vt.edu)

[caveman]

I don't think I have posted this one here before.  If so, consider it a review.  I took some of my horticulture students to a trade show today in Orlando.  They had some incredible machines, plants and displays.  I saw a few trees and plants that don't survive in my neck of the woods.

What is it?

 

 
I apologize for the bright lights, the vendors were paying $11-20 a square foot for their displays.  They wanted them to look fancy. It is compound, alternate with an equal number of leaflets.  The wood is pretty sought after for boat building and water skis (when they were made out of wood).  

[Texas Ranger]

mahogany?

[caveman]

You got it.  

 

[Don P]

Cool, true mahogany. I think I've only seen it in plant sketches.

[caveman]

There are quite a few in south Florida.  Mooseherder used to send me some samples to use when they were on our FFA forestry contest.  I've seen them along the coast at 27-28° N latitude.  We are at 28° N here but being in a low area in the interior of the state, it gets cold enough here to kill most tropical plants. 

Here's another.  Bad picture.  I don't know if this is considered a Bonsai or not.  

When I first saw this, I thought it was a live oak.  After closer inspection, it was not.  I saw another that I pulled a leaf or two off of and ate, hoping it would give me some relief from a headache.  It did.  Anyone want to take a stab at identifying it?  It is not native to the U.S. but is planted here a lot.  I apologize for the poor picture.


Some of the students were being pests.  

[Don P]

To me you would have been looking for a chew of willow bark and that "could" be a black from the bark, but I don't know what that/those things are  :D