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Posted: 8/17/2020 11:04:18 AM EST
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:

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My little artist with her fathers day gift, oils on canvas

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What's your favorite tree, my friends?
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:06:21 AM EST
[#1]
Hickory.

Very versatile tree, I just wish the nuts were meatier.
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:07:50 AM EST
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Hickory.

Very versatile tree, I just wish the nuts were meatier.
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Good one, I always make it a point to note where the local shagbarks are.  Awesome utilitarian hardwood
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:08:09 AM EST
[#3]
Groot  
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:11:56 AM EST
[#4]
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:

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My little artist with her fathers day gift, oils on canvas

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What's your favorite tree, my friends?
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Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:12:15 AM EST
[#5]
American red mulberry, morus rubra.  Exceptionally rare.
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:14:52 AM EST
[#6]
Oak trees are my favourite but they grow too slow. White spruce and blue spruce are a second just because they keep their needles all winter. If you are planting trees the fastest growing ones seem to gain appeal as you start to get older.
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:14:59 AM EST
[#7]
Long leaf pine.
You may have never seen one standing but, I guarantee you’ve seen the wood.
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:15:57 AM EST
[#8]
Eastern Red Cedar
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:17:07 AM EST
[#9]
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:17:31 AM EST
[#10]
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Hickory.

Very versatile tree, I just wish the nuts were meatier.
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Shagbark has some meat. Shellbark more so, but it’s rare in Pennsylvania.
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:18:31 AM EST
[#11]
Celebration Maple
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:18:54 AM EST
[#12]
black walnut.  Very very versatile and multiple uses
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:19:08 AM EST
[#13]
Locust, Hickory, and Oak all make good firewood.
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:20:26 AM EST
[#14]
Peppercorn is one of my favorites.
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:20:36 AM EST
[#15]
The flowering dogwood has to be my favorite. Truly, a beautiful tree to behold. But I really like hunting deer amongst the white oaks.
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:22:34 AM EST
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Hickory.

Very versatile tree, I just wish the nuts were meatier.
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I love shagbark hickorys. Also love beech trees.

Worst tree has to be pine trees. (outside of their usefulness as lumber)
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:24:06 AM EST
[#17]
I took a picture of a tree kinda like that in Sedona a couple weeks ago.

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Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:24:31 AM EST
[#18]
Bristlecone for me too.

Other favorites -
Weeping Alaska (Yellow Cedar)
Metasequoia
Ginko
Ponderosa Pine
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:24:52 AM EST
[#19]
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.
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:27:05 AM EST
[#20]
Christmas Tree, usually a fir.

It reminds me of simpler times.  Even though we never had a live tree, I spent my formative years in fir-laden woods.

Those forests also had scattered white birch, another favorite.
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:29:39 AM EST
[#21]
I have a place in my heart for a Dogwood - my mother's favorite...

Also do love a Magnolia tree - their leaves and cones are obnoxious - but the flowers are beautiful and they smell awesome!

Red
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:29:41 AM EST
[#22]
Pecan
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:29:52 AM EST
[#23]
The Oak tree I shot my first archery deer with.  Nothing special but I spent a lot of hours in that tree and saw a lot of cool things from it.


My mom has a Ginko in her backyard.  Always like that one too.

Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:30:05 AM EST
[#24]
... Ponderosa pine
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:32:12 AM EST
[#25]
Willow.

The mature ones remind me of summer fireworks.

Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:33:32 AM EST
[#26]
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American red mulberry, morus rubra.  Exceptionally rare.
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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.
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:33:45 AM EST
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I've always dug the Ombu tress in Buenos Aires. Baobobs in Africa are cool too, tho the ones in Magadikgadi are the only ones I've seen in person, so on my list oe of the times I'm back.

But stand in a old growth Redwood forest and the awe knocks the rest out of contention. Amazing shit.
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:34:58 AM EST
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The Oak tree I shot my first archery deer with.  Nothing special but I spent a lot of hours in that tree and saw a lot of cool things from it.


My mom has a Ginko in her backyard.  Always like that one too.

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Obviously not one of the fruiting ones.  Then you'd hate it.

I'm a fan of Osage Orange.  Not native to the area that I'm from, but it was brought there long ago.  The wood makes fence posts that last for decades or even a century.  Plus, it's thorny as fuck, when dried and burned, it's hotter than hell and spits sparks everywhere.  If you can find a piece straight enough, it would put hickory to shame for cracking the skulls of commies.
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:35:03 AM EST
[#29]
Bradford Pear
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American red mulberry, morus rubra.  Exceptionally rare.
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Hahaha I see what you did there. I'm surprised that is not classified as a weed.
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:36:07 AM EST
[#32]
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Eastern Red Cedar
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This or American Beechnut tree.
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:36:08 AM EST
[#33]
Mahogany, oaks, elms, teak,  sago palms, & cabbagr palms.

Maples black walnuts, & sycamores are all trees I could love if they were not so damn messy
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:36:15 AM EST
[#34]
Probably ponderosa pine
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:36:37 AM EST
[#35]
Bald cypress and honey locust are my favorite
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:37:21 AM EST
[#36]
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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.
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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 do believe he was being facetious
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:38:32 AM EST
[#37]



Italian fur.
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:38:48 AM EST
[#38]
Blue Spruce
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:39:22 AM EST
[#39]
Catalpa, followed by silver maple.

Shit! Forgot about royal poincianas!
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:40:00 AM EST
[#40]
I don’t have a specific favorite but prefer the larger leafed red and white oaks. Ginkgoes are a close second.
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:40:23 AM EST
[#41]
Baobabs are fucking cool:



Dragon’s Blood:



Rainbow eucalyptus:

Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:43:23 AM EST
[#42]
Japanese maple and weeping willows.
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:47:01 AM EST
[#43]
White oak

Strong wood, good lumber, resistant to rot (closed cells), burns well, looks good, deer love the acorns
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:48:00 AM EST
[#44]
White Birch.

I had never seen a tree with white bark before. When my brother was in the Army and my parents and I would go visit him, we would stop at a roadside Stuckeys which had a white birch in the woods, just off the parking lot. I would visit it whenever we stopped there.

That Stuckeys was where I developed my love of white chocolate and the white birch.

I'm also fond of chestnuts. We had one in my parents' yard that my sister had planted. I loved gathering up the chestnuts when they fell. They also had chestnut trees on the grounds of a school where I used to go to a Fall Festival every year, and I used to go around collecting them.

Good Times!

Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:49:22 AM EST
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I've always dug the Ombu tress in Buenos Aires. Baobobs in Africa are cool too, tho the ones in Magadikgadi are the only ones I've seen in person, so on my list oe of the times I'm back.

But stand in a old growth Redwood forest and the awe knocks the rest out of contention. Amazing shit.
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I've done the redwoods too quiet all that real estate & so little animal life.

the worst tree is Black Palm Trees in the Jungles of Panama


it is like a sea urchin always right where you need to grab on a slippery clay hill
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:51:36 AM EST
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Weeping Willow
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:51:47 AM EST
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This should have been the first post. GD, I am disappoint.
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:55:36 AM EST
[#48]
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.

A.E. Housman

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Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:56:37 AM EST
[#49]
Red maple w/ sycamore a close second and sweetgum in third place.
Link Posted: 8/17/2020 11:57:38 AM EST
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Birch if I had to pick one.
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