flora – Page 2 – Black and White

Taxodium distichum

three + bald cypress — The National Champion Bald Cypress is in the Cat Island Nation Wildlife Refuge, near St. Francisville, Louisiana, and it is 96 feet (29 m) tall, 56 feet (17 m) in circumference, and is estimated to be approximately 1,500 years old. The oldest known living specimen, found along the Black River in North Carolina, is at least 2,624 years old, rendering it the oldest living tree in eastern North America.– Wikipedia

environmental services and power generation

trees and bushes — Approaches to environmental stewardship vary. Some humans make a home in the temperate biome and pay the utility company to generate the power they require for daily living.

solar panels — Another approach to “saving the planet” is to engage in the direct production of electricity for household use.

winter woods

End of the day, oak and tulip trees on the south side of the Saunders Trail

quercus phellos

q. phellos acorns — I thought I’d plant 200 trees in the yard.

Whatis

dog as the weed vector — What kind of seeds are these?

Union Chapel

steeple in the trees

chop chop

man and lopers — pruning West Chop

urban thicket

quercus prinus leaves — Added my Charlottesville backyard thicket to the Homegrown National Park map, Doug Tallamy’s project to regenerate biodiversity.

Consider participating!

Maclura pomifera

National Arboretum DC — It is a member of the mulberry family, Moraceae. Due to its latex secretions and woody pulp, the fruit is typically not eaten by humans and rarely by foraging animals. Controversial suggestions have been made that it was consumed by extinct Pleistocene megafauna, but these claims have been criticised as lacking empirical evidence.
Maclura pomifera has many names, including mock orange, hedge apple, hedge, horse apple, monkey ball, monkey brains and yellow-wood. The name bois d’arc (from French meaning “bow-wood”) has also been corrupted into bodark and bodock..– Wikipedia

We used to call them brain trees.
Horse high, bull strong, hog tight…

root plate

big tree blown horizontal — Blowing down a big tree, the force required to break the grip of a root plate is immense. A tall tree’s stem is a huge lever with branches that offer commodious sail area. Come a powerful wind, the tree is laid down. In time, we all fall down.