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Posted: 8/17/2020 11:59:01 AM EST
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Too many to list... I’ll try a few.
Redwood- avenue of the giants in CA is amazing. Valley Oak- a few up here are absolutely huge and hundreds of years old. Purple autumn Ash- pretty leaves in the fall. Fruitless mulberry- trees of my childhood property. And silkworms! Weeping willow- pretty trees and one of the many trees I’ve been intimate under fairly often. Apricot- I fucking love apricots. Birch- Young birch groves have a elegant look. |
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Posted: 8/17/2020 11:59:56 AM EST
[#2]
Kapok Tree
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:00:03 PM EST
[#3]
The poplars that surrounded my grandpa's homestead
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:02:39 PM EST
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:03:22 PM EST
[#5]
Rocky Mountain Juniper.
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:06:39 PM EST
[#6]
There are some interesting and cool trees out there. I prefer anything with edible fruit growing on it.
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:07:41 PM EST
[#7]
Sweet gum and honey locust
 Probably bur oak |
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:12:02 PM EST
[#8]
Tough call.
Either Liriodendron tulipifera or Tsuga canadensis. |
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:13:03 PM EST
[#9]
Always been into exotic tropical stuff
 Madagascar palm. Good choice for planting under windows of kids that like to sneek out. |
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:22:29 PM EST
[#10]
Tough to pick just one. Every tree is useful for one or more reasons.
Lodgepole because it it is very easy to build a primitive cabin FAST and EASY.  All kinds of sturdy, hasty, structures really.Cedars because they offer great rain and snow protection while hunting, hiking, whatever. Birch. Would love to make a birch bark canoe. Ponderosa Pine because I love the climate associated with it, and the forests are mostly undergrowth free and easy to move off trail. |
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:25:08 PM EST
[#11]
tree-fiddy-seben
That being said, I grew up watching Nature on PBS, and their logo was an Acadia tree. That to me really signals adventure, learning, nature, wild, the outdoors, etc. Someday I'd like to go to Africa and see one. Ideally actually I'd walk the plains rifle in hand. Unfortunately, unlike most Arfcommers, I am of rather modest means. |
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:28:39 PM EST
[#12]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Tough call. Either Liriodendron tulipifera or Tsuga canadensis. When i lived in WV, both of those where everywhere. Here in TX, i like big mesquite trees in spring, when the leaves are vibrant green. I also like cercis candansis (sp) aka redbud. Quaking aspens are pretty cool also. |
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:31:38 PM EST
[#13]
Hickory, oak and chestnut. Planted lots of them at my place along with a apple, pear and peach orchard.
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:32:36 PM EST
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Longleaf pine. A small fraction of them are left in the southeast that were there 120 years ago. Used for turpentine. Makes large pine cones that are easy to pick up. Still used in some wooden boat building projects to make a mast etc...It evolved in a fire ecosystem. We no longer have that.
Until just recently when I got sick I sold mine to a buyer from Main. Trees located in East, TX. They would come mark the trees they wanted and then I'd have loggers come in and thin and the ones they marked were put on a trailer and they would pick them up and haul to Main for wooden boat building. Burned early and often the pines are all over and very little brush.  |
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:32:39 PM EST
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:33:15 PM EST
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Hahaha I see what you did there. I'm surprised that is not classified as a weed. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: American red mulberry, morus rubra. Exceptionally rare. Hahaha I see what you did there. I'm surprised that is not classified as a weed. No, it is rare. The invasive Asian mulberry, morus alba, also makes red berries. The rest of the tree, particularly the leaves, is quite different. I need to post some pictures. I bet what you are seeing in Indiana is not red mulberry (morus rubra). @indianaman |
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:34:39 PM EST
[#17]
Marijuana
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:35:57 PM EST
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Quoted: I present to you the Bristlecone Pine, native to subalpine (high altitude) harsh climates, living up to several thousand years. They definitely left a sense of awe when I was doing 14er hikes in Colorado. Some examples: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/485868/bristlecone-1080x675_jpg-1550264.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/485868/images__16__jpeg-1550266.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/485868/Ancient-Bristlecone-_siebrandjeff__1__jp-1550267.JPG My little artist with her fathers day gift, oils on canvas https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/485868/20200620_210913_jpg-1550270.JPG What's your favorite tree, my friends? That's cool. Great painting too. Me? I'm a simple man. I just love tall pines. 
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:36:31 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I did learn red mulberry isn't an Asian native. I didn't read that it's rare. Where do you get the rarity information. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: American red mulberry, morus rubra. Exceptionally rare. I did learn red mulberry isn't an Asian native. I didn't read that it's rare. Where do you get the rarity information. I have ordered red mulberry from various nurseries up and down the east coast. They were all indicated as being morus rubra, but were actually morus alba. I have never seen a real red mulberry in Pennsylvania. They are all the Asian species, which also makes red berries. |
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:38:58 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Rocky Mountain Juniper. 
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:39:09 PM EST
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: black walnut. Very very versatile and multiple uses This gets my vote too. It smells amazing when it is being milled. You can get some beautiful lumber for guitars and instruments or furniture and cabinetry. It is durable. |
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:39:48 PM EST
[#22]
Tree of Woe. Best place for contemplation.
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:40:55 PM EST
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Autumn blaze maple also the sequoia giant red woods are my favorite. One tree I hate are locust trees biggest pain in the ass trees to have in your yard.
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:45:16 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Shagbark has some meat. Shellbark more so, but it's rare in Pennsylvania. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Hickory. Very versatile tree, I just wish the nuts were meatier. Shagbark has some meat. Shellbark more so, but it's rare in Pennsylvania. I devised a way to crush the shagbark must and use salty water to float the meat away from the shells. Its just a pain in the ass for what you get. Oak would be my second favorite. I have a huge one in my yard that measured 11' duh last time we measured. Id love to take it down and open up the yard, but that tree was there when god was a child. |
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:47:20 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: All of them. If I had a favorite, right now would be pin oak. Have alot of them. Can grow out in the open and the small ones are pretty armoured from deer damage in that they grow right in the briar patches to survive. I like to plant a variety of different species on my land. I kind of ran out of space last year so this year I got some grading done I can get quite a few next spring. I found a few small white ash in the field I'm going to try and protect from the borer in the years to come. 
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:47:52 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Good one, I always make it a point to note where the local shagbarks are. Awesome utilitarian hardwood Rots very easily though if left outside etc. I'd go with Oak over Hickory. |
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:49:22 PM EST
[#27]
Ash
Strong and light. I made a 8' dogsled that weighed 23lbs |
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:51:39 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ash Strong and light. I made a 8' dogsled that weighed 23lbs Enjoy it while you still can |
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:57:34 PM EST
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Posted: 8/17/2020 12:59:31 PM EST
[#30]
Always thought these trees were pretty unique. (Supposedly haunted) forest in Romania
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Posted: 8/17/2020 1:01:07 PM EST
[#31]
 Dragon Tree bleeds red |
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Posted: 8/17/2020 1:03:02 PM EST
[#32]
The Tree Of Liberty and it may be close to the time to refresh it.
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Posted: 8/17/2020 1:04:01 PM EST
[#33]
The tree of Liberty.
edit: literally 59 seconds. |
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Posted: 8/17/2020 1:04:04 PM EST
[#34]
Weeping Willow.
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Posted: 8/17/2020 1:09:14 PM EST
[#35]
Blue Spruce and Aspens.
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Posted: 8/17/2020 1:11:42 PM EST
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: black walnut. Very very versatile and multiple uses |
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