Eastern Red Cedar (Eastern Juniper) Eastern Red Cedar (Eastern Juniper) Eastern Red Cedar (Eastern Juniper) Eastern Red Cedar (Eastern Juniper) Eastern Red Cedar (Eastern Juniper) Eastern Red Cedar (Eastern Juniper) A common tree in our area, the Eastern Red Cedar (really a Juniper), Juniperus virginiana- grows in sporadic pockets...
European Larch European Larch Cone European Larch Seedling European Larch Buds As a kid when I found out that there were deciduous (leaf-dropping) pine trees, I was shocked. It was just drilled into me that they held needles through the winter, even though I knew they lost some needles year round. But our Tamaracks, and the...
categories: Conifers
Mystery 3 Dan and Mary pretty much guessed that this was Cocao, the tree that has its flowers on its bark, branches (the emerge directly from the bark)- and gives us the famous delight- Chocolate. This photo was taken from some formerly cultivated trees in Costa Rica, along a forest path. The Costa Rican industry, like other...
categories: Deciduous (Angiosperms)
Acer x 'Freemanii' 'Freemanii' with Grape Vine Color Depth, 'Freemanii' with Virgnia Creeper and Bittersweet Vine A Hybrid Leaf We were having breakfast this great fall day in the N.E. US, when my daughter looked out the window of the diner and said “Dad, check out how READ THAT tree is!” ...
categories: Deciduous (Angiosperms)
Cottonwood Tree Bud and Leaf Scar This was Mystery 2. Its a bud and leaf scar with corky ridges running down the stem (a feature of some young cottonwoods, unknown as to what this is for). Populus deltoides was a common feature in the West as early settlers moved out. It often was one of the only shade trees along rivers...
categories: Deciduous (Angiosperms)
Pitch Pine, adults, stem, regrowth from shoots When I first arrived in Albany in 1989, I remember that first summer very well- partly because I was able to walk sandy dunes in the middle of a big city, and also because that same summer- I heard a LOUD CRACK in the woods. A sound that made me jump a bit- tiny bit like a fire-cracker...
categories: Conifers
Jack Pine, Pinus banksiana Jack Pine, Pinus banksiana Jack Pine, Pinus banksiana Up here in Saratoga County, NY, I stumbled upon an 80+ year old Jack Pine, Pinus banksiana. This pine tree is not native to our area, and it caught my eye- it really looks like a monstrous bonzai tree, bent in haphazard directions. I was intrigued...
