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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.
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Hickory.
Very versatile tree, I just wish the nuts were meatier. |
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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? View Quote Attached File |
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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.
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Long leaf pine.
You may have never seen one standing but, I guarantee you’ve seen the wood. |
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The flowering dogwood has to be my favorite. Truly, a beautiful tree to behold. But I really like hunting deer amongst the white oaks.
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Bristlecone for me too.
Other favorites - Weeping Alaska (Yellow Cedar) Metasequoia Ginko Ponderosa Pine |
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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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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. |
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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 |
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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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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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Quoted: 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. View Quote 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. |
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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 |
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Quoted: 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. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: 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 do believe he was being facetious |
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Catalpa, followed by silver maple.
Shit! Forgot about royal poincianas! |
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I don’t have a specific favorite but prefer the larger leafed red and white oaks. Ginkgoes are a close second.
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White oak
Strong wood, good lumber, resistant to rot (closed cells), burns well, looks good, deer love the acorns |
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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! |
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View Quote This should have been the first post. GD, I am disappoint. |
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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 Attached File |
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Red maple w/ sycamore a close second and sweetgum in third place.
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