tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23312768733235647002024-03-13T00:08:57.626-07:00Tree Identificationmyrkur ljoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04165206403074334861noreply@blogger.comBlogger172125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-33601017928220297632018-08-30T15:46:00.000-07:002018-08-30T15:46:14.760-07:00Eucalyptus conferruminata - Spider Gum or Bushy Yatesplit from <i>Eucalyptus lehmanii</i>
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<i>Eucalyptus conferruminata</i>: <i>Eucalyptus</i> from the Greek, meaning “well-covered,” referring to the fused lid over the flower before it opens (called an operculum); <i>conferruminata</i> meaning "joined together," referring to the seed pods being fused together in clusters.<br />
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<br />Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com0UC Santa Barbara34.407921559948782 -119.8514360899658334.400840059948784 -119.86516908996583 34.415003059948781 -119.83770308996583tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-69556352069296635412011-06-23T18:45:00.000-07:002011-06-23T18:45:00.734-07:00Pinus pseudostrobus var. apulcensis - False White Pine<i>Pinus pseudostrobus</i> var. <i>apulcensis: Pinus</i> is the Latin name for <i><a href="http://lh2treeid.blogspot.com/2010/03/pinus-pinea-italian-stone-pine.html">P. pinea</a>; pseudostrobus</i> for its similarity to <i>P. strobus; apulcensis,</i> meaning 'from Apulco,' where it was first collected. <br /><br />Also known as <i>P. oaxacana</i>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWbVB6o2hyphenhyphenHLiYBR-gLynMWJyRb0CbTRI-AFs_RrBAZUJ8n_n-6HEP_vgMlC7ckg5bOShUIoMW-FdKfoTENeTpPTI0HYdhfPnsjhK9OE_bSAibAlPR2wpA0CRzpRhW_ky3KbLmu-pFRJo/s1600/Pinus+oaxacana_9843.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWbVB6o2hyphenhyphenHLiYBR-gLynMWJyRb0CbTRI-AFs_RrBAZUJ8n_n-6HEP_vgMlC7ckg5bOShUIoMW-FdKfoTENeTpPTI0HYdhfPnsjhK9OE_bSAibAlPR2wpA0CRzpRhW_ky3KbLmu-pFRJo/s400/Pinus+oaxacana_9843.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621467717357987314" /></a><center>Elegant tree 40-50 meters tall with a round to cylindrical dome. Numerous thin, gently rising branches are clothed with drooping foliage at the tips.</center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaOM0_C5l3pp2Nktf1yzHRoVFc21gmUDGRl0n9GgUK8ocLMU0Ke-Cd_aPjhjseLdTwfZPmsCoIcmbmIhTDzeA2MGH0hghvso4fxCydMRxtmECtLgOtu4RF0N-ULqoMxLTpc2B5f_YRLAo/s1600/Pinus+oaxacana+needles_9847.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaOM0_C5l3pp2Nktf1yzHRoVFc21gmUDGRl0n9GgUK8ocLMU0Ke-Cd_aPjhjseLdTwfZPmsCoIcmbmIhTDzeA2MGH0hghvso4fxCydMRxtmECtLgOtu4RF0N-ULqoMxLTpc2B5f_YRLAo/s400/Pinus+oaxacana+needles_9847.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621467700699701218" /></a><center>Dark yellow-green to bright green to glaucous blue-green needles are 20-40cm long and bundled in fascicles of 4 or 5. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOCdzVqUdR11TC1m9TtlAdnsDvmaKnWa0g5bDN2y3-ne6WfCnA2N8d57JiC4ZRn-H0gFMbm3j-o9hPGobAI3ta6mu6NiHDazeMAizr0HfteR215bZK9Z1OWCMh6CkU2NG12EGgfvfwhV8/s1600/Pinus+oaxacana+needles+with+cone_9852.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOCdzVqUdR11TC1m9TtlAdnsDvmaKnWa0g5bDN2y3-ne6WfCnA2N8d57JiC4ZRn-H0gFMbm3j-o9hPGobAI3ta6mu6NiHDazeMAizr0HfteR215bZK9Z1OWCMh6CkU2NG12EGgfvfwhV8/s400/Pinus+oaxacana+needles+with+cone_9852.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621467697596505026" /></a><center>Seed cones are 10-15 cm long. Seed scales have a long, up-turned claw-like umbo sometimes tipped with a small, fragile prickle. <br />Note the long (20-30mm) sheaths binding the needles in fascicles. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4SAYqicPcANUxW0VuxcmsU-oZSrLnWOMYVTgmVJY89PX506BXGzE2Jd6HmbQiBTjyuav1uvlyZU8bgmbzFk0Tu4qtsOOfFYPfTe0zbK6S1139U7p9LEodrshig0P9H7uIj4UpNUSxcSU/s1600/Pinus+oaxacana+bark_9846.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4SAYqicPcANUxW0VuxcmsU-oZSrLnWOMYVTgmVJY89PX506BXGzE2Jd6HmbQiBTjyuav1uvlyZU8bgmbzFk0Tu4qtsOOfFYPfTe0zbK6S1139U7p9LEodrshig0P9H7uIj4UpNUSxcSU/s400/Pinus+oaxacana+bark_9846.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621467689033769634" /></a><center>Smooth gray to reddish brown bark becomes platy with maturity. </center>Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-46231684498323699762011-06-22T21:01:00.000-07:002011-06-23T11:00:53.748-07:00Pinus contorta ssp. bolanderi - Bolander Pine<i>Pinus contorta</i> ssp. <i>bolanderi: Pinus</i> is the Latin name for <i>P. pinea; contorta</i> or 'twisted,' referring to the species' twisted needles; <i>bolanderi</i>, named after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Nicholas_Bolander">Henry Nicholas Bolander</a> (1831-1897), a collector of plants in Yosemite National Park and California State Botanist in 1864. <br /><br />This subspecies is endemic to the Pygmy Forest in Mendocino Co., California where there are coastal terrace soils with claypan or hardpan. It is closely related to <i><a href="http://lh2treeid.blogspot.com/2010/09/pinus-contorta-contorta-shore-pine.html">P. contorta contorta</a></i> and <i>P. contorta murrayana</i>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWOFGiIF4Aj425mccHiPD_duLee9E2fIueEbu2_Ev-JN_7dnbJRqb2X5LioocBwrRyVYEpUTt9Ommcac1BB63zkihuTG-FeAJC2WCHKN2AJNjaGQciiWyRWyPljTltGcwMA_6fuW2RlNE/s1600/Pinus+contorta+ssp+bolanderi_1957n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWOFGiIF4Aj425mccHiPD_duLee9E2fIueEbu2_Ev-JN_7dnbJRqb2X5LioocBwrRyVYEpUTt9Ommcac1BB63zkihuTG-FeAJC2WCHKN2AJNjaGQciiWyRWyPljTltGcwMA_6fuW2RlNE/s400/Pinus+contorta+ssp+bolanderi_1957n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621464024734292770" /></a><center>Bolander pine often grows in thickets of cane-like trees that, although very small, are biologically mature and bear fertile cones. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJgnfyKzQLCgHmV526W_bnxOn8zO4mfZOzO65v2DOqmWswhIo72K4YIqc5BBS4OF6dOt5GIYi3Jk3jRrw5_UWXubLLX9IVdfafjNtzsxC0oYKPIAn6B5WiLE4TyXZWPdevWMtLUBwXQ4A/s1600/Pinus+contorta+ssp.+bolanderi+needles+and+immature+cones_1954.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJgnfyKzQLCgHmV526W_bnxOn8zO4mfZOzO65v2DOqmWswhIo72K4YIqc5BBS4OF6dOt5GIYi3Jk3jRrw5_UWXubLLX9IVdfafjNtzsxC0oYKPIAn6B5WiLE4TyXZWPdevWMtLUBwXQ4A/s400/Pinus+contorta+ssp.+bolanderi+needles+and+immature+cones_1954.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621461762280325730" /></a><center>Needles 1.25-2" long, 2 per fascicle, often twisted.</center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW7yiRJMOFwT63hrzBns9FG26LqB94jIO4RB42YqEcA7UBNrTPrBe-zZJ_r3nVAdaz1VzwH_GGvuKKU7k5ZTPRTCXnB2Vs9htbmVg-mZzy4qGze7huc9gGco394IKYc8snk-ei2ZG4rhA/s1600/Pinus+contorta+ssp.+bolanderi+needles+and+immature+cone+close+up_1955.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW7yiRJMOFwT63hrzBns9FG26LqB94jIO4RB42YqEcA7UBNrTPrBe-zZJ_r3nVAdaz1VzwH_GGvuKKU7k5ZTPRTCXnB2Vs9htbmVg-mZzy4qGze7huc9gGco394IKYc8snk-ei2ZG4rhA/s400/Pinus+contorta+ssp.+bolanderi+needles+and+immature+cone+close+up_1955.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621458583019200626" /></a><center>Reddish immature cones.</center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMXgt7lrfSr9INdm8I8LQ8x9YR5IVgdu2G9kBkBkHFqEdFbiUyKvH2YNla5sx6U01zaLYYbjX0k4gBG1XTuDEcTu_4maPXgdhXPeWBF5BPR6oZBYssx39W9kcZqvlrwmElMFPGvHQy1CE/s1600/Pinus+contorta+ssp.+bolanderi+mature+cones_1950.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMXgt7lrfSr9INdm8I8LQ8x9YR5IVgdu2G9kBkBkHFqEdFbiUyKvH2YNla5sx6U01zaLYYbjX0k4gBG1XTuDEcTu_4maPXgdhXPeWBF5BPR6oZBYssx39W9kcZqvlrwmElMFPGvHQy1CE/s400/Pinus+contorta+ssp.+bolanderi+mature+cones_1950.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621458582206547426" /></a><center>Asymmetric seed cones ~3 inches long remain closed on the stem for many years.</center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC8mMHVia8-Ajz5mJ6rykXlhYZgC4Gw2sLXOxFB5682REXP__53UD4Ovac056y3dvoQk5vdTv1uCGUxOEGDMoXVV9TCMBTmE9vtLbZfpEYKPuouVNifb1wqHXHhrZ2gIU7WTGOE3_yhuc/s1600/Pinus+contorta+ssp.+bolanderi+bark_1949.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC8mMHVia8-Ajz5mJ6rykXlhYZgC4Gw2sLXOxFB5682REXP__53UD4Ovac056y3dvoQk5vdTv1uCGUxOEGDMoXVV9TCMBTmE9vtLbZfpEYKPuouVNifb1wqHXHhrZ2gIU7WTGOE3_yhuc/s400/Pinus+contorta+ssp.+bolanderi+bark_1949.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621458571484054770" /></a><center>Scaly grey bark.</center>Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-12617019656871872832011-03-13T08:55:00.000-07:002011-03-13T18:36:13.239-07:00Quercus douglasii - Blue Oak<i>Quercus douglasii: Quercus</i> the classical Latin name for the oak; <i>douglasii</i>, named for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Douglas">David Douglas</a> (1798-1834), a Scottish collector from the Horticultural Society of London looking for North American plants that could grow in English gardens. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8-rT-GueaLIMaNXFFSAvudST8Puwhh3RRljiQEJ_7cY5VIKMrykZAtGap7e9ynjTG2hF9R4tWJAigCUKzqWo6hgTn050ICO__OCKb0tOCrH322BqQLIGL2tBzok2_-FgFyGYb6f_lRuQ/s1600/Quercus+douglasii_8345.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8-rT-GueaLIMaNXFFSAvudST8Puwhh3RRljiQEJ_7cY5VIKMrykZAtGap7e9ynjTG2hF9R4tWJAigCUKzqWo6hgTn050ICO__OCKb0tOCrH322BqQLIGL2tBzok2_-FgFyGYb6f_lRuQ/s400/Quercus+douglasii_8345.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583742691944577522" /></a><center>Native to California's Central Valley and foothills. Slow growth to 30-50' tall or more with a 40-70' spread, developing a broad, low-branching, rounded canopy, either leaning or slightly bent, and a heavy clear trunk. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAfi10U-5FVp_71-G3pArpufWf5DlUzrtUjfbKs7zAB_jJTUEsL8rk9FPco0OQ4TnqnT4PJYtTOd4cyHthHeqdpy4jbCFJs2mf_gFElhn-wxU3-jKTpCWYrq_fxxpS2f1CZheOMyGEph8/s1600/Quercus+douglasii+leaves_8350.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAfi10U-5FVp_71-G3pArpufWf5DlUzrtUjfbKs7zAB_jJTUEsL8rk9FPco0OQ4TnqnT4PJYtTOd4cyHthHeqdpy4jbCFJs2mf_gFElhn-wxU3-jKTpCWYrq_fxxpS2f1CZheOMyGEph8/s400/Quercus+douglasii+leaves_8350.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583742681235827394" /></a><center>Leaves are alternate, simple 1 - 1 1/2" long by 1/2 - 3/4" wide, dull bluish green, variable from broad oval to almost squarish, with scalloped edges, blunt, often bristle-tipped ends , sparsely covered with minute star-shaped hairs, often with harmless red gall-like warts on the uppersides, lighter undersides with very fine tiny soft hairs at midveins and branches and pastel pinkish orange or dull yellow fall color. Leaves are smaller and bluer than <i>Q. lobata</i>, which grows alongside. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzZtTOvymVQ965ogq9aDlIm9QuJuTsFcOlftI5voKjPc6vY3MryQGjeHbpCgCs05_2mWifvMWxuifGON-PdMEz8Owjsn42Dki_vFK0IT5bJrW034iNaZ9mFAdWYt3BhlCIuvq1jl4aPYQ/s1600/Quercus+douglasii+catkins+Nomadic-Treehugger.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzZtTOvymVQ965ogq9aDlIm9QuJuTsFcOlftI5voKjPc6vY3MryQGjeHbpCgCs05_2mWifvMWxuifGON-PdMEz8Owjsn42Dki_vFK0IT5bJrW034iNaZ9mFAdWYt3BhlCIuvq1jl4aPYQ/s400/Quercus+douglasii+catkins+Nomadic-Treehugger.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583742671075318882" /></a><center>Yellowish-green tassel-like flowers occur in early spring. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1G980vIu9oR4PL73hB0BMdl_2QLgcZZTpPrFD5u60-UcCCy5JS1ICtSmrDIxeLDsskWod0cRBH-Xq4lJXde1uw0ex6LvM7srHClOeabzD02pQyZZsnfPoETStDZfX_6mxAi7M-mzzDAI/s1600/Quercus+douglasii+acorn+Nature+Shutterbug.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1G980vIu9oR4PL73hB0BMdl_2QLgcZZTpPrFD5u60-UcCCy5JS1ICtSmrDIxeLDsskWod0cRBH-Xq4lJXde1uw0ex6LvM7srHClOeabzD02pQyZZsnfPoETStDZfX_6mxAi7M-mzzDAI/s400/Quercus+douglasii+acorn+Nature+Shutterbug.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583742668848868354" /></a><center>Acorns are deep brown, conical, 1/2 - 1 5/8" long by 3/8 - 3/4" wide, with a rounded, short-tipped end, a thin scaled cup covering 1/8 - 1/4 of the base of the nut, from a short-stalked base, maturing in fall of the first season, and occurring in profusion on healthy trees. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDGxFaDOFX9Nec-85FziaEvjlDP5BoSTL9sCllcmbeLqRFibEjq0QI5y6r-MD3YujPzg_gU1Q1pAZjVU5MADGHrG7AAHJ9vv6IcmJYQN4qb6VRoIB1LoMTdN0AQRqWePjxoUQGhsFLpTQ/s1600/Quercus+douglasii+bark_8349.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDGxFaDOFX9Nec-85FziaEvjlDP5BoSTL9sCllcmbeLqRFibEjq0QI5y6r-MD3YujPzg_gU1Q1pAZjVU5MADGHrG7AAHJ9vv6IcmJYQN4qb6VRoIB1LoMTdN0AQRqWePjxoUQGhsFLpTQ/s400/Quercus+douglasii+bark_8349.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583742670200562370" /></a><center>Brittle young twigs are dull gray to reddish brown with a slight minute hairiness. Bark is rather thin, light ashy gray with narrow ridges, peeling off easily in thin flakes. </center><br /><br />A highly desirable native oak that tolerates valley and foothill heat and seasonal drought. Longevity estimated to be 200-300 years.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-3205327131782351352011-03-10T09:47:00.000-08:002011-03-10T09:47:00.810-08:00Torreya californica - California Nutmeg<i>Torreya californica: Torreya</i> named after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Torrey">John Torrey</a> (1796-1873), a professor of chemistry and one of the giants of North American botany; <i>californica</i> from California, where it grows natively.<br /><br />Also known as Stinking Cedar.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTthpsWWTGpGzbWVItTbpSV4cJY3jrScvaH5Ui0jAZwDQdzbRgn6M_zCfYUYM137zZQ1fszTADH3gnekUIuUuriqv6e63qpI9vLjSEr4tT6MrcdRvkQ75qyxocyNRVXXt2fZ2bN3yo-3s/s1600/Torreya+californica_9538.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTthpsWWTGpGzbWVItTbpSV4cJY3jrScvaH5Ui0jAZwDQdzbRgn6M_zCfYUYM137zZQ1fszTADH3gnekUIuUuriqv6e63qpI9vLjSEr4tT6MrcdRvkQ75qyxocyNRVXXt2fZ2bN3yo-3s/s400/Torreya+californica_9538.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581127806774215922" /></a><center>Growth rate slow to 15-20' tall (taller in native habitat) with a 12-15' spread and a trunk 1-3' in diameter. Often multitrunked with an open, broad pyramidal crown, rounded in age, rangy in forest locations, with slender horizontal branches standing out straight from the trunk in symmetrical circles, drooping at the ends. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim13EKzP7X01PlauuSJFJzmIuwRLzp4GmTg8RxouqjdxdRBVMnWF43qCgioK-mfczeAlNIgcp5V6jPGkfsh6gh5hwkrCvKIG7eJwcQWuH4BYWxn4SAXx29nwWVppT0fFMI4UVRm4O4nxM/s1600/Torreya+califortnica+needles_9537.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim13EKzP7X01PlauuSJFJzmIuwRLzp4GmTg8RxouqjdxdRBVMnWF43qCgioK-mfczeAlNIgcp5V6jPGkfsh6gh5hwkrCvKIG7eJwcQWuH4BYWxn4SAXx29nwWVppT0fFMI4UVRm4O4nxM/s400/Torreya+califortnica+needles_9537.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581127802126581794" /></a><center>Needlelike leaves are rigid, flat, linear-lanceolate, 1 1/4" to 2" long, shiny deep green and spirally arranged and appearing flatly 2-ranked, with sharp pointed edge and two whitish bands on the underside of the leaf. Crushed leaves have a strong scent. Current year's shoots are green but turn reddish brown by the third year. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBZbFOmKFusb1aK6IZWrv8aCB7iBYEwSs4Z2vMFNZBCq_abSRFbqeQzbnkJNo67MuaNuPhP3WOopOPhAWw4yhQYDZHPDVtKL1VaKf8L6gm9gNGDEvZg77wa2V33f-c3D89HFa-EP2B5xE/s1600/Torreya+californica+fruit+fracass_be.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBZbFOmKFusb1aK6IZWrv8aCB7iBYEwSs4Z2vMFNZBCq_abSRFbqeQzbnkJNo67MuaNuPhP3WOopOPhAWw4yhQYDZHPDVtKL1VaKf8L6gm9gNGDEvZg77wa2V33f-c3D89HFa-EP2B5xE/s400/Torreya+californica+fruit+fracass_be.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581127796024490850" /></a><center>Fruits are 1-2" long, ovoid, plumlike, pale green, with purple streaks, a blunt pointed end, and wrinkled skin when matured in the fall of the second season. Seeds have a thin hard brittle shell and germinate after 2 years. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqIn7cOiA_sAd0x7OiDA55zDeVlYNk3T493f3JXCBAoVrpW-__nylafPFiAmsZ4IoXgZwEzLlilYLKHcdtDjN1aD_TiX_GsjjU8isCsWPXvQQ6rfO4A3TPhyphenhyphennpkhTZTtRX_T7naFtY9dk/s1600/Torreya+californica+bark_9535.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqIn7cOiA_sAd0x7OiDA55zDeVlYNk3T493f3JXCBAoVrpW-__nylafPFiAmsZ4IoXgZwEzLlilYLKHcdtDjN1aD_TiX_GsjjU8isCsWPXvQQ6rfO4A3TPhyphenhyphennpkhTZTtRX_T7naFtY9dk/s400/Torreya+californica+bark_9535.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581127791636095682" /></a><center>Bark is ashy yellowish brown, finely checkered with narrow seams and short, narrow, loose, scaly ridges. </center><br /><br />California nutmeg is found on moist, rocky sites within the shade of tall, coniferous forests 2,000' - 7,000'. It grows as a shrub on serpentine soils.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-84573148486368475142011-03-07T09:47:00.000-08:002011-03-07T09:47:00.653-08:00Chamaecyparis nootkatensis - Alaska Yellow Cedar<i>Chamaecyparis nootkatensis: Chamaecyparis</i> Chamaecyparis from the Greek <span style="font-style:italic;">chamae</span>, "dwarf, low-growing, or growing on the ground" and <span style="font-style:italic;">kyparissos</span>, "cypress," meaning "dwarf or ground cypress;" <i>nootkatensis</i> of or from the area of Nootka Sound or Nootka Island in Alaska.<br /><br />Synonyms: <span style="font-style:italic;">Cupressus nootkatensis, Callitropsis nootkatensis, Xanthocyparis nootkatensis</span>. Also known as Nootka Cypress. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimR4d15BFcA1UjPduAZu91T1ZyhcP5cqm1X9SZsTYTyEzflzlJL2QUwr1JBYD9tZUDYRj17QukDnfnIV7t5vC9ElFdq41qFJHQXPfeFY99P76WyBZy03v-JhnrtzkmPfOO7L-17-vHfyg/s1600/Chamaecyparis+nootkatensis_9548.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimR4d15BFcA1UjPduAZu91T1ZyhcP5cqm1X9SZsTYTyEzflzlJL2QUwr1JBYD9tZUDYRj17QukDnfnIV7t5vC9ElFdq41qFJHQXPfeFY99P76WyBZy03v-JhnrtzkmPfOO7L-17-vHfyg/s400/Chamaecyparis+nootkatensis_9548.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581101420845196242" /></a><center>Growth rate slow to 80' tall, though often dwarfed at high elevations, and a 25' spread at the base, developing an open, dense, narrowly conical form. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWySX9HYyT0eA-SX8MYQafCcpw99_1vNhkI0iTYPmx6sU_4o3q_LWXPp8h8_zd4_3u8JN_o290oVFSaceFCtt0JpE_oghci6iLN6HBj-mTU7Nxvg6XgdOuuSycCv5j5-1_vyC6d9ct_tw/s1600/Chamaecyparis+nootkatensis+foliage_9550.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWySX9HYyT0eA-SX8MYQafCcpw99_1vNhkI0iTYPmx6sU_4o3q_LWXPp8h8_zd4_3u8JN_o290oVFSaceFCtt0JpE_oghci6iLN6HBj-mTU7Nxvg6XgdOuuSycCv5j5-1_vyC6d9ct_tw/s400/Chamaecyparis+nootkatensis+foliage_9550.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581101415589857170" /></a><center>Weeping, flat sprays of blue-green to yellowish foliage have scale-like leaves with sharp, spreading tips. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnyLwetp5YogJuIFImajmJWbA2a9N6xMNbryAkH9M4_MVHU7nG3uYzKL3XmJpuo5IlxmukZuHXv2vXt4Sjlem7MrNOkC-VZSzK7zdtMgzxZ4N53n3Fp9JsG6vl18kyBr5Rr6bjJl_owaw/s1600/Chamaecyparis+nootkatensis+cones+CherylMoorehead.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnyLwetp5YogJuIFImajmJWbA2a9N6xMNbryAkH9M4_MVHU7nG3uYzKL3XmJpuo5IlxmukZuHXv2vXt4Sjlem7MrNOkC-VZSzK7zdtMgzxZ4N53n3Fp9JsG6vl18kyBr5Rr6bjJl_owaw/s400/Chamaecyparis+nootkatensis+cones+CherylMoorehead.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581110286162490466" /></a><center>Cones are similar to <i><a href="http://lh2treeid.blogspot.com/2011/02/chamaecyparis-lawsoniana-port-orford.html">C. lawsoniana</a></i> with wide, flat scales opening to expose the center, but only have four to six scales. Small reddish or brown male flowers appear as swollen bulbs at leave tips, shedding pollen in spring. Tiny green female flowers form small, 1/4" long, round, deep cones with a whitish cast, ripening in fall. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhltQfI-jMkAMtqMAJDthOcdAaXeqSYC1fKKibn3XuJJoax57nrFTWTarFP7sG-5n1ANl3zoiG2y9LjxY1ZLQNRhUkLIODsUHrT5Q1jPuxfYtHArmt-Pfr5pbSOkqI5JC9vNDuDYpfajw/s1600/Chamaecyparis+nootkatensis+bark+21mickrange.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhltQfI-jMkAMtqMAJDthOcdAaXeqSYC1fKKibn3XuJJoax57nrFTWTarFP7sG-5n1ANl3zoiG2y9LjxY1ZLQNRhUkLIODsUHrT5Q1jPuxfYtHArmt-Pfr5pbSOkqI5JC9vNDuDYpfajw/s400/Chamaecyparis+nootkatensis+bark+21mickrange.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581109890708954210" /></a><center>Bark is thin, brown, becoming gray with age, irregularly ad finely broken by shallow seams, with wide, flat scaly ridges, frequent diagonal crossings, peeling in narrow, flat, vertical strips. </center><br /><br />Native to the coastal mountains from southeast Alaska to southwestern Oregon, with a few small groves in California's Siskiyou Mountains making up the southern extent of its range. Alaska Yellow Cedars generally grow on north-facing slopes from 4,500 - 6,900' elevation and most often consist of populations of scattered shrubs of this cedar. Longevity estimated to be 200-275 years on average. Canada's oldest known tree is an Alaska Yellow Cedar with 1,636 annual rings. It is said to have perished on Vancouver Island in the early 1990s.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-11228047935483262822011-03-05T15:46:00.000-08:002011-03-05T19:30:57.955-08:00Pinus lambertiana - Sugar Pine<i>Pinus lambertiana: Pinus</i> is the Latin name for pine; <i>lambertiana</i>, named for the British botanist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aylmer_Bourke_Lambert"> Aylmer Bourke Lambert</a>, who is best known for his work <i>A description of the genus Pinus</i>.<br /><br />Native to the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascade Ranges at 3,000-5,000' elevation. Occurs naturally among other pines, firs and incense cedars, which usually predominate. Not readily adaptable to cultivation. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuRuea_Rqy_S7QxB6s5EsLeKXv_jvbMzf3BvODbMRzxSIsXvwPVXEz6togRcopwuDgCFQdviRkSnN-LIY-CuPnGLZBhJIRnaxOJkQXUnj5uiYcyEtJGRHh_nER3ncdpynCb-whC5xRDIk/s1600/Pinus+lambertiana_0319.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuRuea_Rqy_S7QxB6s5EsLeKXv_jvbMzf3BvODbMRzxSIsXvwPVXEz6togRcopwuDgCFQdviRkSnN-LIY-CuPnGLZBhJIRnaxOJkQXUnj5uiYcyEtJGRHh_nER3ncdpynCb-whC5xRDIk/s400/Pinus+lambertiana_0319.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580803277614730178" /></a><center>Growth rate initially slow, faster with age to 200' tall or more with a 50' spread, pyramidal in youth with slender horizontal branching and distinctively loose foliage. Older trees often developing a sizable trunk with broad sweeping limbs giving a somewhat tiered effect and long cones hanging like ornaments from branch tips. One of the tallest pines. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVym0JFifgXqpguVSfG4b2NQFUDLFMttJ1Tmx29l1YjL0kA4pJmmgiqEN2bQYIjQIrj6k3G-7g0ijhE61H-rMBS5MogBwNo-EoxmAu-_M4gtaPqHQ0Wsj24FYULFbenAf40_wT6VhuTwk/s1600/Pinus+lambertiana+foliage_0315.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVym0JFifgXqpguVSfG4b2NQFUDLFMttJ1Tmx29l1YjL0kA4pJmmgiqEN2bQYIjQIrj6k3G-7g0ijhE61H-rMBS5MogBwNo-EoxmAu-_M4gtaPqHQ0Wsj24FYULFbenAf40_wT6VhuTwk/s400/Pinus+lambertiana+foliage_0315.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580803276515087858" /></a><center>Needles are dark bluish green, 2 to 3 1/2" long, 5-fascicled, with a whitish tinge, persisting 2-3 years, tufted at ends of slender branchlets. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyJoBVfz5MAOdUw2cDxWrLr2YdYxfwOEDGrZyDfQEIBCyMQIHMT96gVNry2U_qb_cKx7ekObVljDuyGUL-9o0Q4XvvorAaHd3rb5Fn1JpbtI1ZJmD0cO7-tPbEQ4KlK7tJAy5F5QA0bTQ/s1600/Pinus+lambertiana+needles+and+cones_9684.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 341px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyJoBVfz5MAOdUw2cDxWrLr2YdYxfwOEDGrZyDfQEIBCyMQIHMT96gVNry2U_qb_cKx7ekObVljDuyGUL-9o0Q4XvvorAaHd3rb5Fn1JpbtI1ZJmD0cO7-tPbEQ4KlK7tJAy5F5QA0bTQ/s400/Pinus+lambertiana+needles+and+cones_9684.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580803266406141058" /></a><center>Cones are the largest of all pines at 10-20" long (!), cylindrical, 3-4" in diameter, light brown, with shiny tipped scales with a darker inner surface and sometimes a glop of pitchy sap, ripening in late sumer of the second year and shedding dark brown to blackish 1/2" flattened seeds with a 3/4-1" long rounded wing in fall. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCnjDbghrh3E_sy9sjcvWnyLpQUWV-s2Di14SK_prBs3KoVc2dEFUH4CHkbO5FJwXnDZjWBh6GYKY4YjNQAkK8VvZH-sxa-BdRQ89OCdYCLyuxtKyNPklqEbRR6mfo8Tt2FKYxtOUTC3A/s1600/Pinus+monticola+v.+Pinus+lambertiana+cones_9748.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 304px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCnjDbghrh3E_sy9sjcvWnyLpQUWV-s2Di14SK_prBs3KoVc2dEFUH4CHkbO5FJwXnDZjWBh6GYKY4YjNQAkK8VvZH-sxa-BdRQ89OCdYCLyuxtKyNPklqEbRR6mfo8Tt2FKYxtOUTC3A/s400/Pinus+monticola+v.+Pinus+lambertiana+cones_9748.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580803255915463714" /></a><center><i>P. lambertiana</i> has thicker cone scales, more horizontal cone scales compared <i>P. monticola</i>'s thinner, descending scales with a light colored tip that contrasts with the darker inner cone scale. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihxEz7EQFojXSLVwj0Ov7-Re5gipnuosyCPnfV0JI9-lb-V4_ye6iMid1PFqux7-HLcXBWlT8ztG9LCZ4F00W0huCmnPikpczKXupisXlYxTOlShIHKgLGkE69FyXBj2pDKiTKiIYw-8I/s1600/Pinus+lambertiana+bark_0318.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihxEz7EQFojXSLVwj0Ov7-Re5gipnuosyCPnfV0JI9-lb-V4_ye6iMid1PFqux7-HLcXBWlT8ztG9LCZ4F00W0huCmnPikpczKXupisXlYxTOlShIHKgLGkE69FyXBj2pDKiTKiIYw-8I/s400/Pinus+lambertiana+bark_0318.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580803254697432738" /></a><center>Bark is thin, smooth, and grayish becoming grayish brown, deeply furrowed with long irregular plates along the ridges. </center>Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-64798990867412026072011-02-14T09:46:00.000-08:002011-02-14T09:46:00.598-08:00Chamaecyparis lawsoniana - Port Orford Cedar<i>Chamaecyparis lawsoniana: Chamaecyparis</i> from the Greek <i>chamae</i>, "dwarf, low-growing, or growing on the ground" and <i>kyparissos</i>, "cypress," meaning "dwarf or ground cypress;" <i>lawsoniana</i> named after Charles Lawson (1794-1873), since 1821 the head of Peter Lawson and Son Nursery in Edinburgh, Scotland, a nursery founded in 1770 by his father Peter Lawson. The Lawson cypress was first discovered near Port Orford in Oregon and introduced into cultivation in 1854 by collectors working for the Lawson and Son nursery who sent seeds back to Scotland.<br /><br />Also known as Lawson's Cypress. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX0jNYr3vEQS3lZbYxWpuXL-hes6zyWNLhruues-JrLbJ2LpveG7_5JcgWO9KRx0WsaxnO9KG9dLSw8-qz6tpshUaGO9FaR1iYf64JlW2wtnSLaBl803Ur6yTBuXwJw-yn5dDsvXSFT0w/s1600/Chamaecyparis+lawsoniana_9528.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX0jNYr3vEQS3lZbYxWpuXL-hes6zyWNLhruues-JrLbJ2LpveG7_5JcgWO9KRx0WsaxnO9KG9dLSw8-qz6tpshUaGO9FaR1iYf64JlW2wtnSLaBl803Ur6yTBuXwJw-yn5dDsvXSFT0w/s400/Chamaecyparis+lawsoniana_9528.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572979835007723986" /></a><center>Evergreen native to coastal Oregon and the California coastal ranges. Moderate growth rate to 60' in cultivation, 200' in habitat with 30+' spread, developing a dense pyramidal or columnar shape with branching often to the ground. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicl0n2FA5B4a_Qy24PPDpXwKmDK7D_nYXiIVxzGZvtYnz7THGXbQA6H8Lm10rL5R9w-2-wLCvQauVp9mUEWHyINZMh8-1DqtSErjpIrPFrl6ij0oBofl9c113n5n0sPcZ09BTaU2lBLR8/s1600/Chamaecyparis+lawsoniana+foliage_9529.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicl0n2FA5B4a_Qy24PPDpXwKmDK7D_nYXiIVxzGZvtYnz7THGXbQA6H8Lm10rL5R9w-2-wLCvQauVp9mUEWHyINZMh8-1DqtSErjpIrPFrl6ij0oBofl9c113n5n0sPcZ09BTaU2lBLR8/s400/Chamaecyparis+lawsoniana+foliage_9529.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572979828310737138" /></a><center>Lacy, drooping, flat foliage sprays are variable blue-green with minute flattish scalelike leaves, soft to the touch with short blunt points. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQq-TyhQjEvk1lWuftFBiv4sOEtJgtrcIw0FsOWCS-yKhx0DJBIsCPHDRVPJVI2YJs-ZBHdtDzJMt02889EzeOrpc-6SUnUvLHurYAb5wV81XmPYgetPIbhs28uFPiOA_RO-vVshbmh_4/s1600/Chamaecyparis+lawsoniana+foliage+and+cones_9578.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQq-TyhQjEvk1lWuftFBiv4sOEtJgtrcIw0FsOWCS-yKhx0DJBIsCPHDRVPJVI2YJs-ZBHdtDzJMt02889EzeOrpc-6SUnUvLHurYAb5wV81XmPYgetPIbhs28uFPiOA_RO-vVshbmh_4/s400/Chamaecyparis+lawsoniana+foliage+and+cones_9578.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572979824744467330" /></a><center>Insignificant reddish or brown male flowers appear a swollen bulbs at leaf tips an dshed pollen in spring. Tiny green female flowers form berrylike, reddish brown, 3/8" long, oval cones among the foliage, maturing in fall of the first season, when the 8 wide flat scales open exposing the center portion when ripe. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh1RBtK1XzPWH9D0o4s5tHrkXSuqHTpQYoFrqVztqoN5FH_3OtUy9ttE58QF_ENFCy1jXAwgZ-hTFo6XVEqFiK8jGfBR_H3_yNkhM4scTQEYiV9iF5g4_8dXgue8tx-03l_F8sLRbtb4Q/s1600/Chamaecyparis+lawsoniana+bark_9530.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh1RBtK1XzPWH9D0o4s5tHrkXSuqHTpQYoFrqVztqoN5FH_3OtUy9ttE58QF_ENFCy1jXAwgZ-hTFo6XVEqFiK8jGfBR_H3_yNkhM4scTQEYiV9iF5g4_8dXgue8tx-03l_F8sLRbtb4Q/s400/Chamaecyparis+lawsoniana+bark_9530.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572979820212770706" /></a><center>Bark is thin, brown, becoming gray with age, with irregular shallow seams and flat, shallow ridges , frequent diagonal crossings, peeling in narrow, flat, vertical strips.</center><br /><br />Resinous substance in wood is toxic to termites, making this a valuable timber tree. Originally used for uses as diverse as shipbuilding and match sticks, it is now the most valuable wood harvested in western North America, thanks to past overexploitation. Longevity estimated at 200 years in cultivation and up to 600 years in habitat.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-18042853711620039382011-02-12T09:02:00.000-08:002011-02-12T17:01:41.588-08:00Cupressus macrocarpa - Monterrey Cypress<span style="font-style:italic;">Cupressus macrocarpa: Cupressus</span> is the Latin name for the Italian Cypressus tree (<i>Cupressus sempervirens</i>); <i>macrocarpa</i>, referring to the species' large cones. <br /><br />Evergreen cypress native only to the Monterrey peninsula along the California coast, but extensively naturalized in California and around the globe. Famous for its silhouette and cultivated in coastal areas as a dense, fast-growing windbreak, hedge or park tree. Needs a moist, cool climate. Longevity 100 years in cultivation, up to 200 years in habitat. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwyNKWDpiCdJG25pDGqroVK70X9o_eh836Eekgu-zubSzCh0xYPsnaljHYQgzp2wh-ks2zybzYCuQKain7vKJas4JAMnPZWj-8qqJlDBXeTRMn-SqLQjHagkT4kktnzlrxkrOp6SFfMlM/s1600/Cupressus+macrocarpa_0051.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwyNKWDpiCdJG25pDGqroVK70X9o_eh836Eekgu-zubSzCh0xYPsnaljHYQgzp2wh-ks2zybzYCuQKain7vKJas4JAMnPZWj-8qqJlDBXeTRMn-SqLQjHagkT4kktnzlrxkrOp6SFfMlM/s400/Cupressus+macrocarpa_0051.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572968931423415586" /></a><center>Moderate to fast growth to 60' tall x 35' wide, with a dense, pyramidal form in youth, broad at the base with strong horizontal branching angled upward to a pointed crown. Lower branches eventually die back on older trees, giving a wider, flat-topped crown. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4xkR00mnZfCBeOka4Uykjf8JBnevWaE3twwwPYgn9ejN6L6EuoWAizmED9eEbwXQqrzFiMPvtzJHEwW_I2idgWJVCZA7eI2sezPLzVCMzX2-HAtEKR_gOA_l3XK5FArOS4aEM8XIK8jQ/s1600/Cupressus+macrocarpa+leutia+foliage+traceystout.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4xkR00mnZfCBeOka4Uykjf8JBnevWaE3twwwPYgn9ejN6L6EuoWAizmED9eEbwXQqrzFiMPvtzJHEwW_I2idgWJVCZA7eI2sezPLzVCMzX2-HAtEKR_gOA_l3XK5FArOS4aEM8XIK8jQ/s400/Cupressus+macrocarpa+leutia+foliage+traceystout.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572972528524151826" /></a><center>Foliage is dark or bright green and scale-like, each scale ~1/16" long, with blunt tips, usually without glands. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyfYd4gHYmeLl1dcdf9CDFklz5ev7QqVy6yiU9spcxCzykEFX8sfcz2mYDy11NfCYx032xcJcC2H5HQAYiVOBrcWMe2fHbSFngizR_uS9N_FRJkdpTM0omxgByOmJsI4mGCYKS5wflEew/s1600/Cupressus+macrocarpa+male+strobili+avis+boutell.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 333px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyfYd4gHYmeLl1dcdf9CDFklz5ev7QqVy6yiU9spcxCzykEFX8sfcz2mYDy11NfCYx032xcJcC2H5HQAYiVOBrcWMe2fHbSFngizR_uS9N_FRJkdpTM0omxgByOmJsI4mGCYKS5wflEew/s400/Cupressus+macrocarpa+male+strobili+avis+boutell.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572972133011353858" /></a><center>Male flowers appear as yellowish buds at the ends of foliage and shed pollen in March. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyUp6WxYsJpLJ9TINvpiyeiKD3H4it_eY62Uvh_b4xK3oKmHhpSsd3LRA_I6Ycm6KpwKMmbXx7N4vZeYSvkcGNUpz9mCBGCIDd7WBLEt49VlkZS_nDVdaD9nnKCGx2VC9PLy67EVZIpc4/s1600/Cupressus+macrocarpa+female+strobili+avisboutell.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 377px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyUp6WxYsJpLJ9TINvpiyeiKD3H4it_eY62Uvh_b4xK3oKmHhpSsd3LRA_I6Ycm6KpwKMmbXx7N4vZeYSvkcGNUpz9mCBGCIDd7WBLEt49VlkZS_nDVdaD9nnKCGx2VC9PLy67EVZIpc4/s400/Cupressus+macrocarpa+female+strobili+avisboutell.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572972820714420434" /></a><center>Greenish females form dark brown to grayish 1" round cones, with 4-6 wide, flat scales with blunt knots maturing in August fo the second year, openaing at seams between scales. Cones remain attached to the tree for several years. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWo32cteexV2r8OKTdBBTqLVEy6E9FoUK6Uj6RSj4drZ2mmhNvBx9Pm6fpWs9L2uAkJURtm631jARkGUL6ikgyvXMBQ34nWocW6hpweBum8ATO2t5Hz_NianK97YIjEtRuTx78VXNReCM/s1600/Cupressus+macrocarpa+bark+tracey+stout.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWo32cteexV2r8OKTdBBTqLVEy6E9FoUK6Uj6RSj4drZ2mmhNvBx9Pm6fpWs9L2uAkJURtm631jARkGUL6ikgyvXMBQ34nWocW6hpweBum8ATO2t5Hz_NianK97YIjEtRuTx78VXNReCM/s400/Cupressus+macrocarpa+bark+tracey+stout.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572971061353768882" /></a><center>Bark is reddish brown, narrowly seamed with a network of narrow vertical ridges and smaller diagonal ones, often taking a grayish cast as it weathers. </center>Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-4421853211312612582011-02-11T09:02:00.001-08:002011-02-11T18:46:51.406-08:00Cycas revoluta - Sago Palm<span style="font-style:italic;">Cycas revoluta: Cycas</span> from Greek 'kukas', erroneous reading of 'koïkas', accusative pl. of 'koïx', a kind of palm tree, perhaps of Egyptian origin; <i>revoluta</i>, meaning rolled back from the margin or apex, revolute.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKKm-MUJ4HV2JAfkCUlRsL23xuzVNSuTOBNbu4YDK6t7lejeb4hIQ-XV6jgmMR-jEG5Vum_AU33DF_qS0iaJSYyZXk6pvaIbaxQev0mC_LugoTVrtDqKv38lxmlCVh_F8WUO1sUuehCes/s1600/Cycas+revoluta_9647.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKKm-MUJ4HV2JAfkCUlRsL23xuzVNSuTOBNbu4YDK6t7lejeb4hIQ-XV6jgmMR-jEG5Vum_AU33DF_qS0iaJSYyZXk6pvaIbaxQev0mC_LugoTVrtDqKv38lxmlCVh_F8WUO1sUuehCes/s400/Cycas+revoluta_9647.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572627426228629762" /></a><center>Evergreen. Native to the West Indies, China, and Japan. Slow growing to 20' tall x 16' wide, forming a short, cylindrical trunk with whorled stumps of removed leaf bases. Develops off-shoots at the base, forming multiple upward-curved trunks with age. Sago palms can live to be over 500 years old. Leaves are 2-3' long dark green glabrous feathery fronds that are rigid and feel like plastic. Bark is scaly, cinnamon-red to dark brown. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfO1Ge7uwwaTHPnzoYdCcBaXioYgK3MpnTcUcDewJh9t67DIA6Ig6dR85tccNfk-zJOq0ot9qaDvLKfZTPtyfISWzE9J5BIOz-TIlUUszIb0cBvMtNqW2kJfytUMx-BNBvK_q3olJZJqM/s1600/Cycas+revoluta+new+fronds_9653.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfO1Ge7uwwaTHPnzoYdCcBaXioYgK3MpnTcUcDewJh9t67DIA6Ig6dR85tccNfk-zJOq0ot9qaDvLKfZTPtyfISWzE9J5BIOz-TIlUUszIb0cBvMtNqW2kJfytUMx-BNBvK_q3olJZJqM/s400/Cycas+revoluta+new+fronds_9653.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572627401666905762" /></a><center>Fronds are composed of many stiff, narrow linear-paired pinnae with sharply pointed ends, arising from a short-sheathed stalk. Fronds persist until they are cut off. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy9_LAcbZnMIwRTRlC-JwdLnQmsLOKc3P3CcT2tUBivEWsd0dKPir5PILGIhfQJZ5oHGCOCigFNMsgsNeE5cC64hEP41JC7yivLDOi0IZiIMyzWDragEuk25DqWGx6dDX05WC30WP5A8Q/s1600/Cycas+revoluta+male+flower_9650.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy9_LAcbZnMIwRTRlC-JwdLnQmsLOKc3P3CcT2tUBivEWsd0dKPir5PILGIhfQJZ5oHGCOCigFNMsgsNeE5cC64hEP41JC7yivLDOi0IZiIMyzWDragEuk25DqWGx6dDX05WC30WP5A8Q/s400/Cycas+revoluta+male+flower_9650.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572627415141608210" /></a><center>Dioecious flowers occur on separate plants, with yellowish conelike males producing pollen...</center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhF7W_9dCjCq7fTHsUVgEQMVrjrAIomqWeQhLbrLshyphenhyphenzCuqGCdUjBd8wdjXhSX8mHLLSCkcMYhJTeDDTzkzmutqZ-StKKBO9hqlgNIn4Wuq35l6ZpatVz9V3RQcISflXNRqzyQyVTsvHI/s1600/Cycas+revoluta+female+flower+-+Bambo.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhF7W_9dCjCq7fTHsUVgEQMVrjrAIomqWeQhLbrLshyphenhyphenzCuqGCdUjBd8wdjXhSX8mHLLSCkcMYhJTeDDTzkzmutqZ-StKKBO9hqlgNIn4Wuq35l6ZpatVz9V3RQcISflXNRqzyQyVTsvHI/s400/Cycas+revoluta+female+flower+-+Bambo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572627403684746354" /></a><center>and larger female rosettes covered wth thick down, maturing into a cylindrical dark cone... </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ1giHR6P9Jz6BlQW6JGHLeYDJnvfSPwzMpYBcSXygnN7PeCt91xFGHtOBg8sr9sNDHgzBBJoH-TxEJJZP7Vck_zMwR27haecEZzoEp6Mt5afAWls_WZJ2kBUgWMkNOjMajY4r-GtAwts/s1600/Cycas+revoluta+seeds+-+peregrin+at.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ1giHR6P9Jz6BlQW6JGHLeYDJnvfSPwzMpYBcSXygnN7PeCt91xFGHtOBg8sr9sNDHgzBBJoH-TxEJJZP7Vck_zMwR27haecEZzoEp6Mt5afAWls_WZJ2kBUgWMkNOjMajY4r-GtAwts/s400/Cycas+revoluta+seeds+-+peregrin+at.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572627399342098178" /></a><center>with thick red edible seeds. </center><br /><br />Seeds and stem starch have been widely used as a food source; a large plant may yield over 1,000 seeds. The Ryuku Islanders make a form of sake that is poisonous and an occasional batch kills all who partake.<br /><br />Prefers part shade in hot interior climates, with moderate moisture in fertile, well-drained soil. Due to its tolerance of temperate climates and various forms of horticultural abuse, this is the most common ornamental cycad.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-50996584681049661432011-02-02T09:03:00.000-08:002011-02-02T09:03:00.247-08:00Cupressus funebris - Funeral Cypress<i>Cupressus funebris: Cupressus</i> is the Latin name for the Italian Cypressus tree (<i>Cupressus sempervirens</i>); <i>funebris</i>, Latin meaning 'funereal' -- so named for its pendulous, weeping branch tips. <br /><br />Also known as Mourning Cypress. <br /><br />Evergreen. Native to China. Tolerates wet soil, does well around ponds. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyoHgjLnx7cqbdooZcP-BFYDq0oOReo0XEUlUidMRkhYAssUppr9Ya48hh8rKGit8d9_zPyePZxEhS1iPK0RpQtMhHjaJj3vw_2gqE9uVauowKV5bW1QYUC5iJlc2zTw48KR69hrfAwyg/s1600/Cupressus+funebris_9654.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyoHgjLnx7cqbdooZcP-BFYDq0oOReo0XEUlUidMRkhYAssUppr9Ya48hh8rKGit8d9_zPyePZxEhS1iPK0RpQtMhHjaJj3vw_2gqE9uVauowKV5bW1QYUC5iJlc2zTw48KR69hrfAwyg/s400/Cupressus+funebris_9654.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568540273269691906" /></a><center>30'-60' tall with an equal spread. Heavy, wide-spreading limbs with weeping branch tips. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXtom91S1gdeaJwoQrWXGamoiZepMYihSS6CXfMIZlZJpmXNBKAKQ3yoLAsYSbZwXyD-MXi-NCQbUIoWJ6scNmDzWk4yog9sQw6Kybxfm38wAfAmhh0RAjfL9bdccwrENZXl4KqQzTkiQ/s1600/Cupressus+funebris+needles+and+cones_9862.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXtom91S1gdeaJwoQrWXGamoiZepMYihSS6CXfMIZlZJpmXNBKAKQ3yoLAsYSbZwXyD-MXi-NCQbUIoWJ6scNmDzWk4yog9sQw6Kybxfm38wAfAmhh0RAjfL9bdccwrENZXl4KqQzTkiQ/s400/Cupressus+funebris+needles+and+cones_9862.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568540271144884370" /></a><center>Foliage is lacy, in flat, drooping sprays of tiny yellow-green scale-like leaves with short, blunt points. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAnxo0TKwndzWmFs-tWCbv0IPhBGAUM5o_4ePdWZm8ANeC4J5TUdyzwYIgv7o0eK4x5qTBxGZY8WOmQD0_NjdSB03q2yjAn4vc6DkwzaY4P6lDYcO0tsqoYvc48u61HTRq0H4SAGcpsDw/s1600/Cupressus+funebris+cones_9657.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAnxo0TKwndzWmFs-tWCbv0IPhBGAUM5o_4ePdWZm8ANeC4J5TUdyzwYIgv7o0eK4x5qTBxGZY8WOmQD0_NjdSB03q2yjAn4vc6DkwzaY4P6lDYcO0tsqoYvc48u61HTRq0H4SAGcpsDw/s400/Cupressus+funebris+cones_9657.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568540265275655554" /></a><center>Tiny green female flowers form green, juniper-like cones 3/8" long.</center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi09C7bNQv8bnrlDvboadwTtRTXSueKYLGAjkEZvS7OK8dGQXEd7rWQMYYuSo_WMK5pV-mNBqhRzFL6Sctfs_dVws8XDHM-xb-hyZPKN-Bx2DbpkCao61KyGt61JWd6xUAXR99_zW6sMiE/s1600/Cupressus+funebris+mature+cone_9659.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi09C7bNQv8bnrlDvboadwTtRTXSueKYLGAjkEZvS7OK8dGQXEd7rWQMYYuSo_WMK5pV-mNBqhRzFL6Sctfs_dVws8XDHM-xb-hyZPKN-Bx2DbpkCao61KyGt61JWd6xUAXR99_zW6sMiE/s400/Cupressus+funebris+mature+cone_9659.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568540261613507490" /></a><center> Female cones maturing to brown in the fall of the first season. Male flowers are reddish brown, appearing at leaf tips in spring. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7lHlGgVxXFFhySOOh75Hy1qzbGK89zuO1Amz9wn8q0FYxrdRFfMdjW3ZeUomx_GchtozP90fh2f0OgLpZBIVyToTUojD7tJE2J-nQ_mIW2V5wwOsJpcE-olKCD3FZmYg3tBP04fYRQ2g/s1600/Cupressus+funebris+bark_9655.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7lHlGgVxXFFhySOOh75Hy1qzbGK89zuO1Amz9wn8q0FYxrdRFfMdjW3ZeUomx_GchtozP90fh2f0OgLpZBIVyToTUojD7tJE2J-nQ_mIW2V5wwOsJpcE-olKCD3FZmYg3tBP04fYRQ2g/s400/Cupressus+funebris+bark_9655.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568540256654028386" /></a><center>Bark is thin, reddish brown, peeling in thin, hairy strips. </center>Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-35120230331146484222011-01-31T09:45:00.000-08:002011-01-31T18:01:33.799-08:00Picea sitchensis - Sitka Spruce<i>Picea sitchensis: Picea</i> rom the Latin 'pix' for 'pitch,' referring to the spruce's resin, which was used in the manufacture of pitch before the use of petrochemicals; <i>sitchensis</i>, named for Sitka, Alaska, where this tree grows native. <br /><br />Evergreen. Native to coastal mountains from sea level to 3,000' elevation from British Columbia to northern California. Tallest of the spruces, and a valuable forest tree in the northwest. Grows in loose, acidic soils with high rainfall in temperate coastal areas. Tolerates wet soils and salt spray. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgheWDO8-H8vy4uPEstukdzaBkzTd0xBcp7whiTPka1617ib_srNSDYLOlCpVypw6rZ6o3lxwr6XKbXpK3XzabFOPm9S-I5VdhPsZUxZmwFSNOj6ZGDChVXJVIfTaW3fJOGzE382vcFem0/s1600/Picea+sitchensis_9508.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgheWDO8-H8vy4uPEstukdzaBkzTd0xBcp7whiTPka1617ib_srNSDYLOlCpVypw6rZ6o3lxwr6XKbXpK3XzabFOPm9S-I5VdhPsZUxZmwFSNOj6ZGDChVXJVIfTaW3fJOGzE382vcFem0/s400/Picea+sitchensis_9508.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568528840819924770" /></a><center>Grows to 160+' with a 40' spread, developing a tall, open, conical crown, a broad base, upswept branches, and a narrow to tapered top, more bushy and less upright near windswept coastlines.</center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiE2rJ2CLBOhnZpVZz5o3L0kqGl4EZkiM3v9r6x1HfAph4iTi8yj6eY3LTYHqo9s9wTCQTWGTCWt05HT8o9I4b2otRG6Q-cmbNd-agalhLImjnzJvKTmCTxa6ddcM8LG7cEbCDBL-uf6g/s1600/Picea+sitchensis+looking+up_9520.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiE2rJ2CLBOhnZpVZz5o3L0kqGl4EZkiM3v9r6x1HfAph4iTi8yj6eY3LTYHqo9s9wTCQTWGTCWt05HT8o9I4b2otRG6Q-cmbNd-agalhLImjnzJvKTmCTxa6ddcM8LG7cEbCDBL-uf6g/s400/Picea+sitchensis+looking+up_9520.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568528833630142882" /></a><center>View from below.</center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgoesHX03VLK_emF-bKzAnB08PttW9gvxLpWio1wgUDGEZT7aQ2I6Dp072pPdw0OmdwpfjjCEZFE9wDAQT-DYQpEOCpQflvVTWiF2f7Wihq5Un0-u9NGS2Dgm5CsCSe8csYcZKx-7rj4o/s1600/Picea+sitchensis+foliage_9518.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgoesHX03VLK_emF-bKzAnB08PttW9gvxLpWio1wgUDGEZT7aQ2I6Dp072pPdw0OmdwpfjjCEZFE9wDAQT-DYQpEOCpQflvVTWiF2f7Wihq5Un0-u9NGS2Dgm5CsCSe8csYcZKx-7rj4o/s400/Picea+sitchensis+foliage_9518.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568527087126665282" /></a><center>1"needles are stiff, bristly, bright green with bluish to grayish green new growth, with prickly ends, somewhat flattened and indistinctly 4-angled, standing straight out evenly and completely around branchlets. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMxl3UnIK_WCntwlDktTPFW-GUdcJSX_17pcO7XsMHZVdmZXweVWn7E5qo3q44Xp8B63CYkPqWEHLHzVN3rAzhIeuVTrG0stjHHZ6ZgL8PlbLIBELGJ3hzrddU8NFdiAtZNXHxehtq8m4/s1600/Picea+sitchensis+foliage+and+cone_9567.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMxl3UnIK_WCntwlDktTPFW-GUdcJSX_17pcO7XsMHZVdmZXweVWn7E5qo3q44Xp8B63CYkPqWEHLHzVN3rAzhIeuVTrG0stjHHZ6ZgL8PlbLIBELGJ3hzrddU8NFdiAtZNXHxehtq8m4/s400/Picea+sitchensis+foliage+and+cone_9567.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568527082325576786" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJpJcXskhcWqj1KRYm6f2JE4i4PjfqilNyILXY8OHRz-OeReLknZcYV16RDvBxQWlj51eK8LDf8IvNCEAspkeT_V6fRjOY1Pvf3OFdbWqWEYvTBLMOPPVfqCGKmNXPpQuKKTtGua3GZRg/s1600/Picea+sitchensis+cone+hand_9517.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJpJcXskhcWqj1KRYm6f2JE4i4PjfqilNyILXY8OHRz-OeReLknZcYV16RDvBxQWlj51eK8LDf8IvNCEAspkeT_V6fRjOY1Pvf3OFdbWqWEYvTBLMOPPVfqCGKmNXPpQuKKTtGua3GZRg/s400/Picea+sitchensis+cone+hand_9517.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568527070644756066" /></a><center>Pendulous cones are light brown, oblong-elliptical, 2-4" long, with thin, toothed, somewhat undulating, papery scales, maturing in one season and falling in winter. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDFMbIgHjKSMfjDkctm7lKj_brrRvQZTI-GiJJwcLW_22K5RTUVBhG_nDO3DQkByHYQjn61KZN-JIYMQx3AK3KQoorSkx3EkbGL47BVti3i26yK3L01A81DnwrShi8JqIJJo1UyPFZesE/"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDFMbIgHjKSMfjDkctm7lKj_brrRvQZTI-GiJJwcLW_22K5RTUVBhG_nDO3DQkByHYQjn61KZN-JIYMQx3AK3KQoorSkx3EkbGL47BVti3i26yK3L01A81DnwrShi8JqIJJo1UyPFZesE/" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568527070644756066" /></a><center>Open, mature cone.</center><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEzwvQxwSGbG0NWearkRXwU0X-kLgFyf2sOcLST2ZwPIsR3nGr_1ou4kaf3vVMpPNSj7b1WH0jLQ6CTfnYfBryLSGU-u3f9mMe_ctvRk8Xkg5yE1M7l7TgAYIo_UAQuaOEnyfTmsV7DoM/s1600/Picea+sitchensis+bark_9510.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEzwvQxwSGbG0NWearkRXwU0X-kLgFyf2sOcLST2ZwPIsR3nGr_1ou4kaf3vVMpPNSj7b1WH0jLQ6CTfnYfBryLSGU-u3f9mMe_ctvRk8Xkg5yE1M7l7TgAYIo_UAQuaOEnyfTmsV7DoM/s400/Picea+sitchensis+bark_9510.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568527066589798162" /></a><center>Bark is thin, scaly, gray-brown on younger trees, becoming deep reddish brown with large, flat easily detached scales. Wood is highly valued for strength and is used in making violins for its resonant qualities. </center>Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-30265328249112984572010-10-15T22:45:00.000-07:002010-10-15T23:20:35.932-07:00Abies grandis - Grand Fir<i>Abies grandis: Abies</i> is the Latin name for silver fir; <i>grandis</i>, meaning 'grand,' referring to the tree's distinction as the world's tallest species of fir. <br /><br />Also known as Lowland Fir. <br /><br />Evergreen. Native to coastal mountains from British Columbia to Sonoma County, California, eastward into Montana. Prefers a moist, cool climate. Not tolerant of drier Sierra Nevada locations, where occasionally grown specimens are much smaller than in the northwest. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZp7x4wVD6mMLtAXk9SaVCl5klnkGvv06-LJKTjnOaERuq9wGr63m91H9fIKF8s3c7FONx-YOoxQjHaqQoyh8N1RmtAuxhnZTD6hx2b_wNMpItXH6HsGepKJryMH1dvpAH4SchdT67_V0/s1600/Abies+grandis+Cirrostratus2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZp7x4wVD6mMLtAXk9SaVCl5klnkGvv06-LJKTjnOaERuq9wGr63m91H9fIKF8s3c7FONx-YOoxQjHaqQoyh8N1RmtAuxhnZTD6hx2b_wNMpItXH6HsGepKJryMH1dvpAH4SchdT67_V0/s400/Abies+grandis+Cirrostratus2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527193135630047730" /></a><center>Grows to 300' tall in habitat and 20' wide, with a dense conical shape, broader with age as lower horizontal branches droop, usually to the ground, uppermost growth losing vigour and the top becoming rounded. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIbvDQWvFRaCGRCLxq2DpBVB_Hb8VQrh0qSd0BWZMFyjRG3pWRXhjGz12PkkjgUrzfhyQxi6jWVh4RzmFxcEvsA35wjTkNr4H_GrN5TKAjm9h8UqnwvNy1T-4W5tXtWmHiSWEywm5JmUk/s1600/Abies+grandis+needles_9504.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIbvDQWvFRaCGRCLxq2DpBVB_Hb8VQrh0qSd0BWZMFyjRG3pWRXhjGz12PkkjgUrzfhyQxi6jWVh4RzmFxcEvsA35wjTkNr4H_GrN5TKAjm9h8UqnwvNy1T-4W5tXtWmHiSWEywm5JmUk/s400/Abies+grandis+needles_9504.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527193134129958594" /></a>Needles are shiny dark green, 1 1/2 to 2" long, flat, with blunt or notched ends, 2 white stomatal bands below, grooved uppersides, sometime alternating shorter and longer needles side by side, distinctively flat but arched and recurving in 2 rows on lower branches, those near the crown shorter, denser and pointing forward. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAFpV2VTk_2K2PixwqjCI6hDBwlcgN8aEqDmUtt8idowORT_uH5vglzF4d5vdzMNwOrxmZjKWlN5O-R2-Xk606sq4zFfVBJ3JMtdYXajgkxuXr3xPf1m72TBzKpAH3O3cylgdWdlEjR6A/s1600/Abies+grandis+cone_9585.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 330px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAFpV2VTk_2K2PixwqjCI6hDBwlcgN8aEqDmUtt8idowORT_uH5vglzF4d5vdzMNwOrxmZjKWlN5O-R2-Xk606sq4zFfVBJ3JMtdYXajgkxuXr3xPf1m72TBzKpAH3O3cylgdWdlEjR6A/s400/Abies+grandis+cone_9585.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527193526976351186" /></a>Cones are cylindrical, yellowish green to greenish purple, 2-4" long, upright on upper branches with thin, rounded, flaky scales, broader than long, and hidden inserted bracts, maturing in fall of the first year. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9HYbjSWxHzgBA1jgf0OADQAhUmMAjUinsjyI4Z3gSVoZvgE7HWuwpZwh6Ri7NZNXSP3pKYYgtyWFzwjYat-Y96N19DHcIJMwCISEYKcRR5qgzHMvOX0V6Mc7Ml2q6z-VkoL6yhbcHXmw/s1600/Abies+grandis+bark+Judepm.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9HYbjSWxHzgBA1jgf0OADQAhUmMAjUinsjyI4Z3gSVoZvgE7HWuwpZwh6Ri7NZNXSP3pKYYgtyWFzwjYat-Y96N19DHcIJMwCISEYKcRR5qgzHMvOX0V6Mc7Ml2q6z-VkoL6yhbcHXmw/s400/Abies+grandis+bark+Judepm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527193129524347298" /></a>Bark is thin, gray, with resin blisters, becoming reddish brown with age with thin, flat or platy ridges and many small cracks and fissures. </center>Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-71532383939239419512010-10-12T09:45:00.000-07:002010-10-12T09:45:00.904-07:00Tsuga heterophylla - Western Hemlock<i>Tsuga heterophylla: Tsuga</i> is from a Japanese name for their native hemlocks; <i>heterophylla</i>, meaning 'different leaves' referring to the short and longer needles that grow together along a branchlet. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYySF1aZQmhzL4hu_ikT4VXQT2UAO-Oo_zmKvH2OZ5mEp1lznlLYZ_W_Wfld1qx3VeI-5AOyPF7i_ItDEy7HuvaejXttE_aWpA_FouZEqXrEvq3bX1rSfxulf82v-Dnx05hkOf7CHsbzQ/s1600/Tsuga_heterophylla+wikipedia.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 245px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYySF1aZQmhzL4hu_ikT4VXQT2UAO-Oo_zmKvH2OZ5mEp1lznlLYZ_W_Wfld1qx3VeI-5AOyPF7i_ItDEy7HuvaejXttE_aWpA_FouZEqXrEvq3bX1rSfxulf82v-Dnx05hkOf7CHsbzQ/s400/Tsuga_heterophylla+wikipedia.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527029397562727538" /></a><center> Tall, straight tree with a drooping leader and branch tips. Growth rate slow to moderate up to 150+' in its native habitat by 20-30' wide, developing a tall, pyramidal form. Often rather spindly and shapeless in its densely shaded forest habitat, becoming more shapely in sunnier locations. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGkR1Bo7zbMv88SS5TFrz4qZdpq6wPLfWTKFL9TWaIjqlmObFdmDFeDuFH-hh_-KFmCmPw61n5iXIBbt-T7AMNuQWwfTCkfSUPu7owUpc3Oqc1s6vPWxgHYzM9V-EzV64h51NGV1vDsqw/s1600/Tsuga+heterophylla+foliage_9495.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGkR1Bo7zbMv88SS5TFrz4qZdpq6wPLfWTKFL9TWaIjqlmObFdmDFeDuFH-hh_-KFmCmPw61n5iXIBbt-T7AMNuQWwfTCkfSUPu7owUpc3Oqc1s6vPWxgHYzM9V-EzV64h51NGV1vDsqw/s400/Tsuga+heterophylla+foliage_9495.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527029392030588290" /></a>Needles are glossy, yellow-green, 1/2" long, appearing to grow from opposite sides of branchlets. appearing 2-ranked, or in a flattened profile, from a short stem, with grooved uppersides, persisting 3-4 years. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIHUVwibHASPA49cNu1zi9-9W0-mkN824PbGZi7Iz5kN6-tFzLqe1qowSG4hSdU82Qs1bgrZTlSwIINNShIcwu601T81MtpzAEdmcVuHJuDVhhKnLG4AceQLEJoeBspanu1dn_HdWlmHY/s1600/Tsuga+heterophylla+cones+codiferous.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIHUVwibHASPA49cNu1zi9-9W0-mkN824PbGZi7Iz5kN6-tFzLqe1qowSG4hSdU82Qs1bgrZTlSwIINNShIcwu601T81MtpzAEdmcVuHJuDVhhKnLG4AceQLEJoeBspanu1dn_HdWlmHY/s400/Tsuga+heterophylla+cones+codiferous.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527029381251322866" /></a>Cones are light brown, elliptical, 1" long with thin papery scales, hanging along ends of branchlets, maturing in summer of the first season. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBi5ZZrHA3qYmQ2XRfvXpUrzKjgp6tEB258Qh0L9J6QUyjgOl-c_s_EHKZ0rvBqxFyHROW_MwrcOTBZ-sCzHnOw3y02PaWOMZzVuxlvBbev_AB3n31smDp9DLF-zo92SrHEfga_DNbyKw/s1600/Tsuga+heterophylla+bark_9497.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBi5ZZrHA3qYmQ2XRfvXpUrzKjgp6tEB258Qh0L9J6QUyjgOl-c_s_EHKZ0rvBqxFyHROW_MwrcOTBZ-sCzHnOw3y02PaWOMZzVuxlvBbev_AB3n31smDp9DLF-zo92SrHEfga_DNbyKw/s400/Tsuga+heterophylla+bark_9497.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527029380040360418" /></a>Bark is thin, brown, finely scaled, becoming thicker and harder, dark brown and red-tinged, deeply furrowed, with flat, wide ridges irregularly interconnected with narrow cross-ridges. </center><br /><br />Evergreen. Native to the Pacific Coast from Alaska to northern California at 2,000-5,000' elevation. Western hemlock is mainly a tree of temperate rainforests, but it also occurs in the northern Rockies. On the coast it may experience 150" of rain (in Alaska), or less than 40" (Eureka, California). Inland it is confined to shady, north-facing slopes and stream bottoms. It tolerates a wide variety of soils and ranges from sea level to 2,000 feet. Grows mostly among <i>Sequoia sempervirens, Picea sitchensis</i> and <i>Thuja plicata</i>.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-62740189188936775732010-10-11T21:44:00.000-07:002010-10-12T08:41:29.425-07:00Thuja plicata - Western Redcedar<i>Thuja plicata: Thuja</i> from the Greek name 'thuia' or 'thyia,' a kind of juniper or other resinous tree; <i>plicata</i>, meaning 'pleated'.<br /><br />Also known as Canoe Cedar, in reference to the canoes made from its rot-resistant wood by Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwKheLojtGXzFC0a7d4Wt0YzHStVDdNGsNXg8wefMmzTLmX3s_wbIQMNdaGs9oF3eFxEbmbDYt0-IAZWS9Sz6ONuZNEu5uJFrNQPMQml8Io2Bu-KVa7aPZsw8yKjoO8sABQAxubZA_huA/s1600/Thuja+plicata_9479.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwKheLojtGXzFC0a7d4Wt0YzHStVDdNGsNXg8wefMmzTLmX3s_wbIQMNdaGs9oF3eFxEbmbDYt0-IAZWS9Sz6ONuZNEu5uJFrNQPMQml8Io2Bu-KVa7aPZsw8yKjoO8sABQAxubZA_huA/s400/Thuja+plicata_9479.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525541103837293218" /></a><center> Pyramidal form with straight, tapered trunk with a buttressed trunk. Upper limbs are often horizontal; lower limbs droop to the ground, but most have upturned tips. Foliage is lighter green than that of associated conifers. Moderate growth rate up to 200' in its native habitat and 20-60' wide. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO5kndbAItUi7UjnElJa6HHc7p-hrDxW8SbBcmJEWRhpmj01maVeTPJ_D7njNxLjiNx9PJffc4HfpNbjnFA0c9AQictHnZsTGAkway6CCiwJzZbZbq5EzHlSSp6Xwy31h_Pl3xhXjx7jE/s1600/Thuja+plicata+foliage+Mark+Birkle.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO5kndbAItUi7UjnElJa6HHc7p-hrDxW8SbBcmJEWRhpmj01maVeTPJ_D7njNxLjiNx9PJffc4HfpNbjnFA0c9AQictHnZsTGAkway6CCiwJzZbZbq5EzHlSSp6Xwy31h_Pl3xhXjx7jE/s400/Thuja+plicata+foliage+Mark+Birkle.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525541096627605602" /></a>Flat, hanging, lacelike, green foliage sprays of small, decussate, scale-like leaves. Delightfully aromatic when crushed. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3iOwdLZ9s5168e03wFsrnuT3dWHqXPQiaRPChQ_3TsWjFuWkDuRdIHl_kjO7ZpkOc4NIsUsY7bOlhcvd52lRwISjVB3_wXypjk3GIZPzmOUQX6HSXKwuTRekEjOujULe3KNStg_J7B9g/s1600/Thuja+plicata+shade+L+and+sun+R+foliage_9490.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3iOwdLZ9s5168e03wFsrnuT3dWHqXPQiaRPChQ_3TsWjFuWkDuRdIHl_kjO7ZpkOc4NIsUsY7bOlhcvd52lRwISjVB3_wXypjk3GIZPzmOUQX6HSXKwuTRekEjOujULe3KNStg_J7B9g/s400/Thuja+plicata+shade+L+and+sun+R+foliage_9490.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525541094090035346" /></a>Sprays of foliage from shady (left) and sunny (right) parts of the same tree. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdfvdt1i4Ld3gul1kYKZaGTxYVsNVVhAr-5ZTnn4VxQfPJvwXvUGzyu5htZ5PFU8JhLtp8H43zNNqxnI3qZ2h0smbW4tlh0wova0pRdobl1BwJzHZQHhZAhGreTyJVTTAKqhlJ1bcDIgQ/s1600/Thuja+plicata+cones+map_9494.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdfvdt1i4Ld3gul1kYKZaGTxYVsNVVhAr-5ZTnn4VxQfPJvwXvUGzyu5htZ5PFU8JhLtp8H43zNNqxnI3qZ2h0smbW4tlh0wova0pRdobl1BwJzHZQHhZAhGreTyJVTTAKqhlJ1bcDIgQ/s400/Thuja+plicata+cones+map_9494.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525541089506438930" /></a>Cones are 1/2" round, reddish brown, with 6 fertile scales, maturing and releasing 2-3 seeds each in late summer o the first year. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisKtsUp9GKMVyG-zD11cVjHTncqdoABlAPl_GyYPSB0qEx7_2THkldeRbwyOhKvg9Tj7Lrnt5xMiwvJwe-RhatBElYYN1ZNlDAalc3owVwfiNJ-16d7sN9Yjem7R8MZrA6P1tcSCOrPgc/s1600/Thuja+plicata+bark_9476.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisKtsUp9GKMVyG-zD11cVjHTncqdoABlAPl_GyYPSB0qEx7_2THkldeRbwyOhKvg9Tj7Lrnt5xMiwvJwe-RhatBElYYN1ZNlDAalc3owVwfiNJ-16d7sN9Yjem7R8MZrA6P1tcSCOrPgc/s400/Thuja+plicata+bark_9476.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525541084281714466" /></a>Bark is thin, reddish brown, fibrous, with shallow furrows and long vertical ridges, peeling in long strips and taking on a grayish cast with age. Trunk base is often fluted. </center><br /><br />Evergreen. Native to the northwestern U.S. from coastal California to Alaska east to Montana. Western redcedar grows under temperate rainforest conditions alongside <I>Sequoia sempervirens, Picea sitchensis, Tsuga heterophylla</i> and <i>Pseudotsuga menziesii</i>. Summers are relatively cool, winters are mild, rainfall is heavy and supplemented by ample fog-drip. It is sometimes found in boggy soil.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-4527323430130631822010-10-08T09:44:00.000-07:002010-10-08T09:44:00.465-07:00Abies bracteata - Santa Lucia Fir<i>Abies bracteata: Abies</i> is the Latin name for silver fir; <i>bracteata</i> refers to the species' extraordinarily long cone scale bracts. <br /><br />Also known as the Bristlecone Fir. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz77mg0ghrXXl1RGH_uJB2TvvYrvivgJ60ozPg90K9IcaHDvYB87-6p5EeDKoskQagOTH704vf_SAPdwX5fqkiILIamy4IWATK7r0EcSu6FWdZvPc6ImfiFgCKT3GtHE_89IpnD-hBcy4/s1600/Abies+bracteata_9449.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz77mg0ghrXXl1RGH_uJB2TvvYrvivgJ60ozPg90K9IcaHDvYB87-6p5EeDKoskQagOTH704vf_SAPdwX5fqkiILIamy4IWATK7r0EcSu6FWdZvPc6ImfiFgCKT3GtHE_89IpnD-hBcy4/s400/Abies+bracteata_9449.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525529362313424082" /></a><center>Narrowly conical, steeple-like crown, with short, slightly drooping branches near the top and wide-spreading branches at the base, often to the ground. Growth rate moderate, slower with age, to 70' tall (to 100' in habitat) and 15-20' wide.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj38KQd005KD1nVVH_ENCjvYA7xU9CYPPUEODYIUZMGPV2B72QZsOqDXYAmw4d3CXcq7lAWN3CunIgYhx-ys8wg2SU5elbS3kAWSgw_9nlsazxwW6A4p6tzYiJCCYUMfcjM2IQOYyevyC8/s1600/Abies+bracteata+needles_9463.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj38KQd005KD1nVVH_ENCjvYA7xU9CYPPUEODYIUZMGPV2B72QZsOqDXYAmw4d3CXcq7lAWN3CunIgYhx-ys8wg2SU5elbS3kAWSgw_9nlsazxwW6A4p6tzYiJCCYUMfcjM2IQOYyevyC8/s400/Abies+bracteata+needles_9463.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525529358132888354" /></a>Needles are stiff, flat, shiny dark green 2" long, twisted near the base, with sharply pointed tips and 2 whitish stripes on the undersides, sometimes occurring in flattened sprays on lower branches. Compare to <i>Torreya californica</i>. Twigs are glabrous, with long, narrow, sharply pointed, 1" long non-resinous buds. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi54ZDYl1XH6q8V_beoKYDtl1sId5vup4lLyJqRXOBCrQVQen6XC3aRUP7oPHt2866ogMC9kHg3XefRMI__jd4EixG6_rf09drDQZfKfO3kHFtl10pxrKYcux2-_63mjpq0NLYd89SrZAU/s1600/Abies+bracteata+cone.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi54ZDYl1XH6q8V_beoKYDtl1sId5vup4lLyJqRXOBCrQVQen6XC3aRUP7oPHt2866ogMC9kHg3XefRMI__jd4EixG6_rf09drDQZfKfO3kHFtl10pxrKYcux2-_63mjpq0NLYd89SrZAU/s400/Abies+bracteata+cone.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525529341821303522" /></a>Purplish brown cones are upright 3" long, with thin, broadly rounded, tightly clasped scales, each bract extendign into a 1/2 to 1-3/4" long yellowish brown, hairlike bristle, curving outward around the cone. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoHSysaWoeHFv26DILU-RRqRAX6gZsp7YKb1yPTIHMbfsuSWob9ND2GTuzo9Wbs_1kNTMIq5wKaj5hfkUmrDWvWWzwvYUJhoxTaKiye4gDyHw5hYr63pNCxEbWWXluaTDf7S9hSVNrbQc/s1600/Abies+bracteata+cone+scales+with+long+bracts_9457.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoHSysaWoeHFv26DILU-RRqRAX6gZsp7YKb1yPTIHMbfsuSWob9ND2GTuzo9Wbs_1kNTMIq5wKaj5hfkUmrDWvWWzwvYUJhoxTaKiye4gDyHw5hYr63pNCxEbWWXluaTDf7S9hSVNrbQc/s400/Abies+bracteata+cone+scales+with+long+bracts_9457.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525529337367550178" /></a>Cones are rarely seen, disintegrating when fully mature and releasing ovoid, reddish brown broad-winged seeds. Pictured above are cone scales with bracts and a spike to which cone scales were formerly attached. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVc8NdBVYuAgeEP6nk3r_PjVzAqvtQgpD-WKeVN4_UaXVhuhbrlA9_M-jmVQmZ5VxvMjXJK7rjZGLZIV2DkFUsdcDUYyoo9Bw-xr553kMR8uvo0PJI71eZGeS-Z1r0MrglNoWvxoBwVJU/s1600/Abies+bracteata+bark_9471.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVc8NdBVYuAgeEP6nk3r_PjVzAqvtQgpD-WKeVN4_UaXVhuhbrlA9_M-jmVQmZ5VxvMjXJK7rjZGLZIV2DkFUsdcDUYyoo9Bw-xr553kMR8uvo0PJI71eZGeS-Z1r0MrglNoWvxoBwVJU/s400/Abies+bracteata+bark_9471.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525529336023667922" /></a>Bark is smooth, thin, grayish brown, thickening and becoming scaly and slightly fissured, often with pitch oozing from cracks in the bark. </center><br /><br /><br />Evergreen. Native to the Santa Lucia mountains of Monterrey and San Luis Obispo counties of California. The Santa Lucia Fir occupies steep, rocky slopes above the cool, windswept, foggy coast, usually between 2,000 and 5,000 feet in mixed-evergreen forests at sites with annual rainfall in excess of 100 inches.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-50476213037565428022010-10-07T15:43:00.000-07:002010-10-07T15:43:00.344-07:00Pseudotsuga macrocarpa - Big Cone Spruce<i>Pseudotsuga macrocarpa: Pseudotsuga</i>, meaning false hemlock -- 'tsuga' is the Japanese name for hemlock; <i>macrocarpa</i>, meaning literally 'big cone'. <br /><br />There is also an effort to popularize the more accurate common name, Big Cone Douglas Fir. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEistcvduAVCP0ykLSpb99sscAuatFoSuIH5-cOaXWqDOHWc3nZs_nSmXfryMtmcgWlH3Nzjl6DQAi19u-Ofk4-t5IAHC0ReUUwIC1ouTjo9TH8EOViXG3ak2SLWXv6K6nSAWrytpLt8jA4/s1600/Pseudotsuga+macrocarpa+Jims+Plants.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEistcvduAVCP0ykLSpb99sscAuatFoSuIH5-cOaXWqDOHWc3nZs_nSmXfryMtmcgWlH3Nzjl6DQAi19u-Ofk4-t5IAHC0ReUUwIC1ouTjo9TH8EOViXG3ak2SLWXv6K6nSAWrytpLt8jA4/s400/Pseudotsuga+macrocarpa+Jims+Plants.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525091368922936562" /></a><center>Growth rate slow to 60' tall and 30' wide, developing a broad conical shape, stout trunk, long horizontally spreading branches, irregular with age, with sparse areas between older drooping branches often sprouting juvenile growth. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiey11KWvBCdJFUG7asw807i_LrzIsA1gXgzB2aYmO9PcYVWhwEvXZ4BmeEPsumPTgWXqNFepRVbvTBx_GIrxiRPduaiu6aarj6YP_nIaqgP9fMwd7PHxmI7_CIj3CeLnhY0PgqmHs5NZ8/s1600/Pseudotsuga+macrocarpa+needles_9447.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiey11KWvBCdJFUG7asw807i_LrzIsA1gXgzB2aYmO9PcYVWhwEvXZ4BmeEPsumPTgWXqNFepRVbvTBx_GIrxiRPduaiu6aarj6YP_nIaqgP9fMwd7PHxmI7_CIj3CeLnhY0PgqmHs5NZ8/s400/Pseudotsuga+macrocarpa+needles_9447.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525091364293919474" /></a>Needles are stout, densely set, bluish-green to dark-green, 3/4 to 1" long, slightly curved, whorled along branchlets, appearing 2-ranked or semi-flattened, with a slightly grooved upperside, ends slightly more pointed than <i>P. menziesii</i>, and persisting about 6 years. Slender twigs are reddish brown, slightly hairy at first with shiny dark brown pointed buds, slightly shorter than those of P. menziesii.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRc2HnkXx-uL0sIVWGAGiwfGmcGYPoR7Npl6wT4KzaqlDn3UUipyVMx3pFfxLrNSbjP8ILc7YyfxTx1bZE40c92WpcUtVX2COlWfqUc8YVNPn2dL9jiPPVFCLWnQVsKUaP1FQQqDq22ho/s1600/Pseutotsuga+macrocarpa+cone_9445.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 323px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRc2HnkXx-uL0sIVWGAGiwfGmcGYPoR7Npl6wT4KzaqlDn3UUipyVMx3pFfxLrNSbjP8ILc7YyfxTx1bZE40c92WpcUtVX2COlWfqUc8YVNPn2dL9jiPPVFCLWnQVsKUaP1FQQqDq22ho/s400/Pseutotsuga+macrocarpa+cone_9445.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525091358952388482" /></a>Cones are reddish brown, 4-7" long by 2-3" wide, short stalked, narrowly ovate, hanging from branch ends, with shortened tri-tipped, pointed bracts extending just beyond the broad, thick, rounded scales, ripening in summer and opening in fall of the first season, but may persist into the following year. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPeMtsURz6vXTr5KQ8CFfF9EuAiomvtbx2tJ0_1FZQFKbN9TusCzF4ifda74qk555W6bt6KtlXrKZFhfbVSlCHJ14hJUYfBAtiS0xFEFWzvtU_7cbV8TSNW-S8MGSpn0eS-_xE7AmPPt0/s1600/Pseudotsuga+macrocarpa+conescale+bracts_9446.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPeMtsURz6vXTr5KQ8CFfF9EuAiomvtbx2tJ0_1FZQFKbN9TusCzF4ifda74qk555W6bt6KtlXrKZFhfbVSlCHJ14hJUYfBAtiS0xFEFWzvtU_7cbV8TSNW-S8MGSpn0eS-_xE7AmPPt0/s400/Pseudotsuga+macrocarpa+conescale+bracts_9446.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525091349339026178" /></a>A closer view of the conescale bracts. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi60ytTzOymnO0NtL9AwVUAl6ckmoAhGOWRZKLUIKt0K_0hhrdl75ZDOdGcy7g08z54uystavMmWc16u1ZSNbn6p42-B1fxa5YQLSXSJ_PuROpKMk3YRLkMPl92luLBuOqa0i4mAV-DAiM/s1600/Pseudotsuga+macrocarpa+bark_9443.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi60ytTzOymnO0NtL9AwVUAl6ckmoAhGOWRZKLUIKt0K_0hhrdl75ZDOdGcy7g08z54uystavMmWc16u1ZSNbn6p42-B1fxa5YQLSXSJ_PuROpKMk3YRLkMPl92luLBuOqa0i4mAV-DAiM/s400/Pseudotsuga+macrocarpa+bark_9443.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525091346461966066" /></a>Bark is dark reddish brown, thickening at an early age and becoming roughly furrowed, with wide, heavy ridges and interconnecting narrow cross-ridges. </center><br /><br />Evergreen. Native to southern California on dry slopes and in canyons from Kern and Santa Barbara counties south to Baja California at 1,000-7,000' elevation, outside the range of Douglas-fir to the north.<br /><br />Limited to southern California mountain habitats, along ridgetops and steep ravines, in loose scattered groves. Tolerates drier conditions than Douglas fir, growing in chaparral and mixed conifer regions, with canyon live oak, as well as pinyon, Jeffrey, ponderosa, sugar, and gray pines.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-78574250374104233192010-10-07T09:43:00.000-07:002010-10-12T09:15:04.089-07:00Picea engelmanii - Englemann's Spruce<i>Picea engelmanii: Picea</i> from the Latin 'pix' for 'pitch,' referring to the spruce's resin, which was used in the manufacture of pitch before the use of petrochemicals; <i>engelmanii</i> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann">George Engelmann</a>, a German-American botanist who described the flora of the North American west. <br /><br />Evergreen. Native to southwestern Canada, Oregon, and extreme northern California east to the Rocky Mountains. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBFt3dIGQ8kQTlWmmcY6xzvLzjnXYbcctlPp_hveFLYUOXZxsPTIaxGBn8KBaegiguP9wwNKXeL1Gg4W62177cp605aZkntzZIzJHsB4yvQVNgC7nufjEL0tTLghae-kDRdD4z9o5cPFY/s1600/Picea+engelmanii_9424.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBFt3dIGQ8kQTlWmmcY6xzvLzjnXYbcctlPp_hveFLYUOXZxsPTIaxGBn8KBaegiguP9wwNKXeL1Gg4W62177cp605aZkntzZIzJHsB4yvQVNgC7nufjEL0tTLghae-kDRdD4z9o5cPFY/s400/Picea+engelmanii_9424.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525083273633949122" /></a><center>Growth rate moderate to fast to 60-130' tall and 20-25' wide, with a tall pyramidal form in youth with upward-arching horizontal branches, becoming round-topped with age, with drooping branches, from a rather large buttressed trunk. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpuwj6DsUCk2iCStBat7dsAGCrQhuq7_jW_V0PkW6RbV_LHDyUwXEU0p7HCwe4_sOjEs_ypxto_SBIous644nEXfr0fXZaVwDINuxzqx7uddLlVN9tprSeb75PlxF1ab4jUwBGHvXCT8g/s1600/Picea+engelmanii+needles_9437.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpuwj6DsUCk2iCStBat7dsAGCrQhuq7_jW_V0PkW6RbV_LHDyUwXEU0p7HCwe4_sOjEs_ypxto_SBIous644nEXfr0fXZaVwDINuxzqx7uddLlVN9tprSeb75PlxF1ab4jUwBGHvXCT8g/s400/Picea+engelmanii+needles_9437.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525083261700329394" /></a>Needles are dark-green to bluish-green, 1 to 1 1/18" long, occasionally with glaucous white bloom. Bluntly pointed ends are not sharp, and needles are somewhat flexible, with no visible resin ducts on the surfaces. Needles are also four-sided and can be rolled between the fingers. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpP7qEGnHlubAFdS75od7xFKuR2sYABrTZXxzILzK2SPXbufrdm-9pCzQtW1K9U6uhGXSnx5OirBPg8kvxo8ctPO9uPEHyeY2-kMILbRruYx9gWsE6NC2Ew_dwFAza-UgHRYLpSh1CjnA/s1600/Picea+engelmanii+needle+pegs_9436.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpP7qEGnHlubAFdS75od7xFKuR2sYABrTZXxzILzK2SPXbufrdm-9pCzQtW1K9U6uhGXSnx5OirBPg8kvxo8ctPO9uPEHyeY2-kMILbRruYx9gWsE6NC2Ew_dwFAza-UgHRYLpSh1CjnA/s400/Picea+engelmanii+needle+pegs_9436.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525083255322153458" /></a>Fallen needles leave small pegs where they were attached along the branch, as is common to the <i>Picea</i> genus. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK4F5k-hnNisnvyyIPRbDnwe3SNKBn-JZpt0KfjH3_GY-zWje4419_Q577ltATrCvfzehxQ8iEyxdhaM6DTD3eyinAy7LghwNOiDj60GvKgK9FdcxbZayK8uCPNB97-FeCkN7g83wnc9Y/s1600/Picea+engelmanii+cone_9439.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK4F5k-hnNisnvyyIPRbDnwe3SNKBn-JZpt0KfjH3_GY-zWje4419_Q577ltATrCvfzehxQ8iEyxdhaM6DTD3eyinAy7LghwNOiDj60GvKgK9FdcxbZayK8uCPNB97-FeCkN7g83wnc9Y/s400/Picea+engelmanii+cone_9439.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525083247972109234" /></a>Pendulous cones are oblong to cylindrical, sessile or short-stalked, with slighly wavy and elongated, flexible, papery scales, with irregular end margins, maturing in fall of the first season to a light brown and falling shortly thereafter. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4R6A2qOy4oKcShNMjHHjAIcBHctcoIoRCr436undHXqbIDQ6n-KhYxtx-Nx80DRPG5IcRE0KtFrJihqxCdWKuhIiAxDr9WoJHKz0TkCNogBOQ1UrhF7vdtW-_0NAsl40cXK5evdshFqA/s1600/Picea+engelmanii+bark_9434.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4R6A2qOy4oKcShNMjHHjAIcBHctcoIoRCr436undHXqbIDQ6n-KhYxtx-Nx80DRPG5IcRE0KtFrJihqxCdWKuhIiAxDr9WoJHKz0TkCNogBOQ1UrhF7vdtW-_0NAsl40cXK5evdshFqA/s400/Picea+engelmanii+bark_9434.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525083236246419506" /></a>Bark is fairly thin and reddish brown, becoming grayish and broken into large, thin, loosely attached scales. </center>Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-68667520220054776752010-10-06T15:03:00.000-07:002010-10-06T15:03:00.311-07:00Pseudotsuga menziesii - Douglas Fir<i>Pseudotsuga menziesii: Pseudotsuga</i>, meaning false hemlock -- 'tsuga' is the Japanese name for hemlock; <i>menziesii</i>, named for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Menzies">Archibald Menzies</a>, a Scottish surgeon and naturalist. <br /><br />Native to the northwestern U.S. from northern California to Alaska east to the Rocky Mountains at 2,000-4,000' elevation. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUTArNb1H7aLkUoJVs9SxGSkGlq111ZDHtjHSXdScP2EDnfYEhOGDsBIkA90yyti7lzdpBcy0ZfOtDXfNfiS3CnhkBqbAZ4-T_UiSS6Q-L7LII2rX86Qtw9bX6b0kVS5Touz9_HAFa9TE/s1600/Pseudotsuga+menziesii+Eric+in+SF.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUTArNb1H7aLkUoJVs9SxGSkGlq111ZDHtjHSXdScP2EDnfYEhOGDsBIkA90yyti7lzdpBcy0ZfOtDXfNfiS3CnhkBqbAZ4-T_UiSS6Q-L7LII2rX86Qtw9bX6b0kVS5Touz9_HAFa9TE/s400/Pseudotsuga+menziesii+Eric+in+SF.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524421603397812722" /></a><center>Broadly pyramidal in youth, with lower branches horizontal or slightly drooping an dhigher branches ascending openly, older trees becoming more rounded with an irregular loose form. Growth rate fast to 80-160' tall and 20-30' wide in cultivation and up to 250' tall in habitat. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUJ940ROAlG4tLZ-qdhQ-fo5icd3ycG73fTCl_B5ylpAj8wg6DcxJ0Gu6j12lqIQzD3ub4c9SF4_3UB8eL3QptWu_i_Y1LN_cZ4TTN8AU7qJb4hfyDhQT4VgEV9dzU_nkTQ-oHckeiRA4/s1600/Pseudotsuga+menziesii+foliage_9522.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUJ940ROAlG4tLZ-qdhQ-fo5icd3ycG73fTCl_B5ylpAj8wg6DcxJ0Gu6j12lqIQzD3ub4c9SF4_3UB8eL3QptWu_i_Y1LN_cZ4TTN8AU7qJb4hfyDhQT4VgEV9dzU_nkTQ-oHckeiRA4/s400/Pseudotsuga+menziesii+foliage_9522.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524421597031465362" /></a>Needles are soft, dark green, new growth light green, 3/4 to 1 1/2" long, flattish, densely set, with a slightly grooved upperside, blunt to dull pointed ends and a distinctive fragrance, persisting 6-8 years. Twigs are orange to brown with shiny, brown, long-pointed buds. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXzy4NxQEjpo5XL-5hnwqWFeGwlaEyYEanUSZGRKZtlv71UzVdhxCAbtMdWL_IqlDHXbJC78MyBd2SaLSAv8ZEXFako1aG_An5ZF58yFg8Wqe9bTzTs5GkhzvTY2kVTbg3VjEp71xjeWg/s1600/Pseudotsuga+menziesii+cones+with+and+without+bracts_9407.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXzy4NxQEjpo5XL-5hnwqWFeGwlaEyYEanUSZGRKZtlv71UzVdhxCAbtMdWL_IqlDHXbJC78MyBd2SaLSAv8ZEXFako1aG_An5ZF58yFg8Wqe9bTzTs5GkhzvTY2kVTbg3VjEp71xjeWg/s400/Pseudotsuga+menziesii+cones+with+and+without+bracts_9407.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524421592797680914" /></a>Cones are thin, reddish brown, 2-4" long by 1 to 1/2" wide, narrowly ovate with tri-tipped, pointed bracts extending among and beyond the broad, thin scales, hanging from branch ends, ripening and opening in teh fall of the first season. Seeds are dull brown, 1/4" long with a 5/8" long wing. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYDD7izCw7DHHEs2oKTAelcGC4czKww_irnqXhD0AvR4KAW2t2vcRPtWBGCz4rNXimeHblOzAmFDrmUt863dtkXomesndyU1yvEuf1jtSHjXnRIJWpiqqjm2_8zH-jTCz2FSBobSnLCIQ/s1600/Pseudotsuga+macrocarpa+and+menziesii+cones_9524.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYDD7izCw7DHHEs2oKTAelcGC4czKww_irnqXhD0AvR4KAW2t2vcRPtWBGCz4rNXimeHblOzAmFDrmUt863dtkXomesndyU1yvEuf1jtSHjXnRIJWpiqqjm2_8zH-jTCz2FSBobSnLCIQ/s400/Pseudotsuga+macrocarpa+and+menziesii+cones_9524.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524421584608137154" /></a><i>P. menziesii</i> cones are about half the size of <i>P. macrocarpa</i> (top), but the bracts are about the same length.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv1bxHnBItEHcrFUxpS5VDNMrzCWdA3GUjvpDEosXtz5YUXs8ZaXESZLMQVxq33W_oEy7iPzs3YqkZuppE8hilqDWVwuOtAz50yAfkoq05OQp5esjmZrTRmoSkz2JhqMu1BVXM0u0VB5Y/s1600/Pseudotsuga+menziesii+bark_9527.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv1bxHnBItEHcrFUxpS5VDNMrzCWdA3GUjvpDEosXtz5YUXs8ZaXESZLMQVxq33W_oEy7iPzs3YqkZuppE8hilqDWVwuOtAz50yAfkoq05OQp5esjmZrTRmoSkz2JhqMu1BVXM0u0VB5Y/s400/Pseudotsuga+menziesii+bark_9527.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524421574839333778" /></a>Bark is thin, smooth, grayish brown, becoming thicker, dark brown and roughly furrowed wtih heavy ridges interconnected by narrow cross-ridges. </center>Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-82178640136520235042010-10-06T09:49:00.000-07:002010-10-06T09:49:00.100-07:00Calocedrus decurrens - Incense Cedar<i>Calocedrus decurrens: Calocedrus</i> from the Greek <i>kallos</i>, meaning 'beautiful' and <i>kedros</i>, meaning 'cedar'; <i>decurrens</i>is Latin meaning with the leaf margins running gradually into the stem, that is, having a wing-like or ridge-like extension beyond the actual or apparent point of attachment, like a leaf base that seems to continue down the stem.<br /><br />Native to the mountains of southern Oregon, California, western Nevada and northern Baja California. Commonly associated with Pseudotsuga menziesii and Pinus ponderosa in the Sierra Nevada. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQCZQ0TasfYR8iuXE05akxTm7R5m0mw4wfYKQWVbhCcZw-Xpco4TDZL6x5lLPQZX06Tg5BTB4FexmLZ73A-0DoXOKP354MoBdq1FV-wZDi15ZMK0Qx3qLBwZn8IT-z1-B0RxDBZ9T64fM/s1600/Calocedrus+decurrens_9376.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQCZQ0TasfYR8iuXE05akxTm7R5m0mw4wfYKQWVbhCcZw-Xpco4TDZL6x5lLPQZX06Tg5BTB4FexmLZ73A-0DoXOKP354MoBdq1FV-wZDi15ZMK0Qx3qLBwZn8IT-z1-B0RxDBZ9T64fM/s400/Calocedrus+decurrens_9376.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524418528055685298" /></a><center>Growth rate slow to moderate to 75-90' tall (up to 160' in its natural habitat) and 10-15' wide or more, developing a tall, symmetrical pyramidal form, with a dense, narrow crown, a thick buttressed trunk at the base, and drooping lower horizontal branches arching upward at the ends on older trees. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGJr0fGWwrPCZIjwYqwj_ZTNzlN_ux8gPnV3WeKFyfYrEZ8PJCML6SoZwT7OkmJkietJq6O2jvrtnusd8dIurJuthXTGRo1n5WZUJXOZYfXsvmAEx_lWNshFJxwxDWq4wCqtVJn2nB2Rk/s1600/Calocedrus+decurrens+needles_9367.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGJr0fGWwrPCZIjwYqwj_ZTNzlN_ux8gPnV3WeKFyfYrEZ8PJCML6SoZwT7OkmJkietJq6O2jvrtnusd8dIurJuthXTGRo1n5WZUJXOZYfXsvmAEx_lWNshFJxwxDWq4wCqtVJn2nB2Rk/s400/Calocedrus+decurrens+needles_9367.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524416929569839458" /></a>Needles are rich glossy green, closely spaced, flattened, scalelike, with sharp points, occuring in flat sprays, fragrant when crushed, persisting about 2 years, as branchlets enlarge with the main deciduous period in late summer. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq0SUXvrh1xDtUPs-sl1r5_Vr3HuLD5Ceg6u95kGjhclGOYWYfYHg7LWSlCTW9YNL4gkbJEAoxVYFltcX-3Emqg3Msq9kxSB52k4pIUaxdaJuxWCY4HO3w0obGqYLuHLFaBcbqFF9wJvs/s1600/Calocedrus+decurrens+adpressed+leaves.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq0SUXvrh1xDtUPs-sl1r5_Vr3HuLD5Ceg6u95kGjhclGOYWYfYHg7LWSlCTW9YNL4gkbJEAoxVYFltcX-3Emqg3Msq9kxSB52k4pIUaxdaJuxWCY4HO3w0obGqYLuHLFaBcbqFF9wJvs/s400/Calocedrus+decurrens+adpressed+leaves.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524416925868968066" /></a>The sprays of foliage are made up of elongate, flattened scale-like leaves arranged in four rows surrounding the branchlet, giving it a jointed appearance. The leaves are aromatic when crushed. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSPZQOG0UkZFFqS9H2QcdDJbLoUfc0X6gKvh7kJCwN-z9Dqd5w4FhuidUvvMkOoAKmwptxrGoZtwRyAsIQDIXLRVV0Ni1pCxdNombfCFCnYy8EOXNfziw5H0lIpAR5ahJLYx0OEm8Nov4/s1600/Calocedrus+decurrens+male+strobili_9371.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSPZQOG0UkZFFqS9H2QcdDJbLoUfc0X6gKvh7kJCwN-z9Dqd5w4FhuidUvvMkOoAKmwptxrGoZtwRyAsIQDIXLRVV0Ni1pCxdNombfCFCnYy8EOXNfziw5H0lIpAR5ahJLYx0OEm8Nov4/s400/Calocedrus+decurrens+male+strobili_9371.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524416920098603186" /></a>Inconspicuous male and female flowers occur in midwinter on separate twigs of the same branch, as yellowish thickened scaly bodies at ends of branchlet.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil2MGRgJMYaG9LIg8vzhxHILJJi0N04RazoxWtMOsk5BpeTnVy0i-6Vfrsk9BDNew4bMPnvCtuNxP7j5CYASlqJ4mQa1qqR1-BSMP63QeEBcQYVlfagRxGGyFv6lpzPoX4HJBkYApuOnQ/s1600/Calocedrus+decurrens+cones.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil2MGRgJMYaG9LIg8vzhxHILJJi0N04RazoxWtMOsk5BpeTnVy0i-6Vfrsk9BDNew4bMPnvCtuNxP7j5CYASlqJ4mQa1qqR1-BSMP63QeEBcQYVlfagRxGGyFv6lpzPoX4HJBkYApuOnQ/s400/Calocedrus+decurrens+cones.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524416883624580290" /></a>Oblong-ovoid 1" yellowish to reddish brown seed cones mature in September of the first season in California, splitting open into 5 parts, with 2 recurving away from the flat, straight center and 2 smaller scales at 90º and a sharply pointed hook at the ends.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjveUPd_BrKtBKhIr0tE_c4zJlznSV95-qfzX1lWhlr5PGB906x_Z6vxtQU0b8ifN2LJNN1Np2paYUDRQZYCIQMztmZyfCLjb43uyyaSsXHsHTRzmKt0chSeZbCzTNKkFtA9AH_GtPlwKE/s1600/Calocedrus+decurrens+bark+v_9368.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjveUPd_BrKtBKhIr0tE_c4zJlznSV95-qfzX1lWhlr5PGB906x_Z6vxtQU0b8ifN2LJNN1Np2paYUDRQZYCIQMztmZyfCLjb43uyyaSsXHsHTRzmKt0chSeZbCzTNKkFtA9AH_GtPlwKE/s400/Calocedrus+decurrens+bark+v_9368.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524416872228638098" /></a>Bark on young trees is thin, smooth, cinnamon-red, flaking in broad, flat plates, later thickening and becoming darker brown, appearing semi-fibrous wtih deep furrows and thick vertical ridges. </center>Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-8515984364493468252010-10-05T15:48:00.000-07:002010-10-05T15:48:00.132-07:00Pinus muricata - Bishop Pine<i>Pinus muricata: Pinus</i> is the Latin name for pine; <i>muricata</i>, Latin meaning like a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murex">murex</a>, which is the genus of marine gastropods having rough spiny shells, so named for the cone's sharp, prickly scales. <br /><br />Evergreen. Native to the California Coastal Ranges, Santa Cruz Island, and Baja California, usually in mild, foggy coastal areas on terrain that includes seaside bluffs and headlands, infertile granitic ridges, and old marine terraces with highly acidic soils. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4aqZAEzZoiIB2iUsVVdamfrWqHLaIlUHPJxaRWb9wP7fVNbBPs_Dh_axneNQkzhCJD136nbrvegNUPwHFmbMK7yOiK8G_vwrN9xlJCM70_jnZ6nL0_5QR_7LkiDv2MmcCccfnejtrPdE/s1600/Pinus+muricata_9347.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4aqZAEzZoiIB2iUsVVdamfrWqHLaIlUHPJxaRWb9wP7fVNbBPs_Dh_axneNQkzhCJD136nbrvegNUPwHFmbMK7yOiK8G_vwrN9xlJCM70_jnZ6nL0_5QR_7LkiDv2MmcCccfnejtrPdE/s400/Pinus+muricata_9347.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524411533368944722" /></a><center>The Bishop Pine can take on a dense, rounded canopy to a sparse, wind-swept look with a bowed or straight trunk. Moderate to fast growh up to 40-75' fall and 20-40' wide. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibw3CT360Fr9mZzLcj_2Qd0LwBb0tQfyyxLPi7aIkB2Hvb8EXL3qwaQU8FcNbHiyGtAsByHRKqihJACqMbycDmMRMmvai7hFnKQ4uUvdtBH2OE7kbmmEiy63PsEYIcGKk0CnS1TBeyyds/s1600/Pinus+muricata+needles_9342.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibw3CT360Fr9mZzLcj_2Qd0LwBb0tQfyyxLPi7aIkB2Hvb8EXL3qwaQU8FcNbHiyGtAsByHRKqihJACqMbycDmMRMmvai7hFnKQ4uUvdtBH2OE7kbmmEiy63PsEYIcGKk0CnS1TBeyyds/s400/Pinus+muricata+needles_9342.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524411525006541474" /></a>Stiff 2-fascicled needles 4-6" long are green in the south, and blue-green from Sea Ranch to Trinidad and are tightly clustered at branch ends. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHOK0p_eZvM30-4ivR5yBUBeotZo8dSVTXmRge63B4m7dttrDGqTaZ5xotfqdW9vxny4CRrGXk-6XKBCsHSmvI7fy0fdJR_Vh_dYvP4J5fLhVUodeNpmNDX6IC9uqMBfNialhfKe6BXGU/s1600/Pinus+muricata+cone_9341.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHOK0p_eZvM30-4ivR5yBUBeotZo8dSVTXmRge63B4m7dttrDGqTaZ5xotfqdW9vxny4CRrGXk-6XKBCsHSmvI7fy0fdJR_Vh_dYvP4J5fLhVUodeNpmNDX6IC9uqMBfNialhfKe6BXGU/s400/Pinus+muricata+cone_9341.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524411519636238386" /></a>Egg-shaped closed cones measure up to 4" long with strongly prickles scales. Depending on their age, they can be reddish brown to weathered gray and are usually tightly closed and held on branches in whorls. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic7wtOBPhmkb8eK_fQGmTaucbzIDA9oZCjnhdhPyko4vEz2sXFMkBrK3ESpUQhZXJ3dAzfrYyxlH2sCn8H3Iq2GqSbpU_1XT2R4KYNBp6oVrpc8PfjAiXOS2UY1DVDx827kkAJBDqS7kM/s1600/Pinus+muricata+bark_9345.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic7wtOBPhmkb8eK_fQGmTaucbzIDA9oZCjnhdhPyko4vEz2sXFMkBrK3ESpUQhZXJ3dAzfrYyxlH2sCn8H3Iq2GqSbpU_1XT2R4KYNBp6oVrpc8PfjAiXOS2UY1DVDx827kkAJBDqS7kM/s400/Pinus+muricata+bark_9345.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524411515292254354" /></a>Bark is gray-brown to almost black in mature trees. Rough, scaly ridges are separated by fissures. </center>Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-65141158342376035212010-10-05T09:04:00.000-07:002010-10-05T09:04:00.089-07:00Pinus strobus - Eastern White Pine<i>Pinus strobus: Pinus</i> is the Latin name for pine; <i>strobus</i> is Latin for pine cone. <br /><br />Native to the north-eastern U.S. from Georgia and Iowa to Illinois and in Canada from Newfoundland to Manitoba. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgkN1GDbu09NXIxwRbr9MOpGBLfkmxRgWexAEiwyku5ELlTaR2sk9PlybA-oIgo-XKIL0DW18wHM3sYuvCa35cRS6sfmhLuxANyE6UCaU5q_ZZeylcRHHezNglsBsVJjCnfdiH8FeG1H0/s1600/Pinus+strobus.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgkN1GDbu09NXIxwRbr9MOpGBLfkmxRgWexAEiwyku5ELlTaR2sk9PlybA-oIgo-XKIL0DW18wHM3sYuvCa35cRS6sfmhLuxANyE6UCaU5q_ZZeylcRHHezNglsBsVJjCnfdiH8FeG1H0/s400/Pinus+strobus.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524407225672974066" /></a><center>Growth rate slow, becoming faster to 50-80' tall and 20-40' wide, dense, straight-branched, and conical in youth, broadening with age to a more open, picturesque form with irregularly drooping branches. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8o3mPwyikvLM5d6RuDsiD8PUko2Vpcci9K9n8uLBnVB4XB5XibyeyNfEfg4UvzG-LbfaqUVcaMhitpcGCBJ6mZartf4p-Vd2pGSKmtsG_t0BuRTdAMhE_mL1FZEjCIhn9AI3TsFJNfTY/s1600/Pinus+strobus+needles+and+smooth+twigs_9261.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8o3mPwyikvLM5d6RuDsiD8PUko2Vpcci9K9n8uLBnVB4XB5XibyeyNfEfg4UvzG-LbfaqUVcaMhitpcGCBJ6mZartf4p-Vd2pGSKmtsG_t0BuRTdAMhE_mL1FZEjCIhn9AI3TsFJNfTY/s400/Pinus+strobus+needles+and+smooth+twigs_9261.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524407218084594466" /></a>Needles are soft, bluish green, 3-5" long, 5-fascicled, twisted, with minute teeth on all sides, whorled completely around branchlets, persisting 3-4 years. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwFVjUN3PwWYKaTHj8gSw7DQAv_2F7HVoGka98Ud7P51xUKJwclY9JqdOddWDiHR6SnhbpawcCsCQbmIkK7xMg4eR1MEH-mv7p6A-15IHEIMeVcllHl4g3Oyfy8F94eg-ao5-c8xlXck4/s1600/Pinus+strobus+cone_9265.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwFVjUN3PwWYKaTHj8gSw7DQAv_2F7HVoGka98Ud7P51xUKJwclY9JqdOddWDiHR6SnhbpawcCsCQbmIkK7xMg4eR1MEH-mv7p6A-15IHEIMeVcllHl4g3Oyfy8F94eg-ao5-c8xlXck4/s400/Pinus+strobus+cone_9265.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524407215236899186" /></a>Cones are reddish brown, 3-8" long, slender, long-stalked, with light-tipped scale ends and no spines. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitXpmQeZEKEXo-7GBOiCzv7o8BlWmySyd_fVhXPOO_kzoBO3DIpUtJcbYZjbyYRC_JSEhbPhoPfZXIIk9XZ70luegvMceZw_4VROW3SQw5ihGg9Li4VR3Z70XGqzWMtAqOStmPnsuwnp4/s1600/Pinus+strobus+bark_9259.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitXpmQeZEKEXo-7GBOiCzv7o8BlWmySyd_fVhXPOO_kzoBO3DIpUtJcbYZjbyYRC_JSEhbPhoPfZXIIk9XZ70luegvMceZw_4VROW3SQw5ihGg9Li4VR3Z70XGqzWMtAqOStmPnsuwnp4/s400/Pinus+strobus+bark_9259.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524407205850250482" /></a>Bark is thin, smooth and light gray, thickening and darkening to grayish brown with rectangular scaly plates. </center>Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-7946756321789318432010-10-04T20:53:00.000-07:002010-10-04T20:53:37.911-07:00Sequoia sempervirens - Coast Redwood<i>Sequoia sempervirens: Sequoia</i> named for the Cherokee silversmith <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah">Sequoyah</a> who developed his nation's first writing system; <i>sempervirens</i> is Latin meaning always green, referring to the evergreen foliage. <br /><br />Native to the Pacific coast of California and Oregon. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibiZovVoe_F94hznUeT_xn5frNo7EjdkR_VObGjuZb9OlBKhJsQaGabE9jAhg3xMhTplQv_miDthJYNCcybub9nsuH1AAtd5df5XCn7WkyYD-ykrOa7_77mTB-6jLoxGDodXhttEQRfuY/s1600/Sequoia+sempervirens_9019.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibiZovVoe_F94hznUeT_xn5frNo7EjdkR_VObGjuZb9OlBKhJsQaGabE9jAhg3xMhTplQv_miDthJYNCcybub9nsuH1AAtd5df5XCn7WkyYD-ykrOa7_77mTB-6jLoxGDodXhttEQRfuY/s400/Sequoia+sempervirens_9019.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524376678945715698" /></a><center>Growth rate fast to 70-90' in cultivation and up to 150-300' in habitat. with a 15-30' spread, developing an open pyramidal form and horizontal branching from a large main trunk with a broad base. Commonly cultivated as a long-lived, fast growing evergreen lawn, shade or screen tree.</center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfgOjlQihpUEM3gbdr_UD4PKl9C-VIOOjMdFPc05GSJiT1NHjUMwasGbnwc3PwDXCsmqs2YG8CioBxox3GFScJd-kmPC9ocXaPHXiP3rHlWEMG4yBhCWrcBGMcFDRgu1rZECSzsq28kuY/s1600/Sequoia+sempervirens+needles.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfgOjlQihpUEM3gbdr_UD4PKl9C-VIOOjMdFPc05GSJiT1NHjUMwasGbnwc3PwDXCsmqs2YG8CioBxox3GFScJd-kmPC9ocXaPHXiP3rHlWEMG4yBhCWrcBGMcFDRgu1rZECSzsq28kuY/s400/Sequoia+sempervirens+needles.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524376668743813122" /></a><center>Foliage sprays of feathery, flat, glossy green, needle-like leaves, 1/2-1" long tightly spaced in an alternate, opposite flat plane along green stems. Needles have slighlty prickly ends, lighter undersides, and persist 3-4 years, clinging to branches 1-2 years after drying to dull brown.</center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8n6wKKJeJUwfD8NQdcHaN8cZaj818wuYWHqOCGiPW1A58XhiX9h7mTXWdDj2-Xlpx1p42fwzWKdA1u0FnYu3b5H_1ityoM4jDWfHjJ8yiXkCAPr8wjkmQCbYgxz_q_CW0RFPfiGBneo0/s1600/Sequoia+sempervirens+cone.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8n6wKKJeJUwfD8NQdcHaN8cZaj818wuYWHqOCGiPW1A58XhiX9h7mTXWdDj2-Xlpx1p42fwzWKdA1u0FnYu3b5H_1ityoM4jDWfHjJ8yiXkCAPr8wjkmQCbYgxz_q_CW0RFPfiGBneo0/s400/Sequoia+sempervirens+cone.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524376660892216610" /></a><center>Cones are brown, oval 3/4-1" long, with densely spaced woody scales with crape-like, peltate thickened ends, maturing and opening in fall of the first year, but may persist for several months afterward. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRxiw1WjqyrRPqymXKz6ntUllTsnWChzwVB-kKvloHxhXBpQaXi2ejC1PIBabsq9XDfkleRU0wtQQsLjyYky9yBhGVdFhtnLBwLFf2J3LIMPGE5uAqQ-MrwJUBx6cS-1yzjzZd9_iqVUM/s1600/Sequoia+sempervirens+bark.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRxiw1WjqyrRPqymXKz6ntUllTsnWChzwVB-kKvloHxhXBpQaXi2ejC1PIBabsq9XDfkleRU0wtQQsLjyYky9yBhGVdFhtnLBwLFf2J3LIMPGE5uAqQ-MrwJUBx6cS-1yzjzZd9_iqVUM/s400/Sequoia+sempervirens+bark.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524376654364477890" /></a><center>Bark is fibrous, dark brown to cinnamon red, becoming very thick and spongy with age, with deep wide furrows and vertical ridges.</center>Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-18782484699564037952010-10-04T18:40:00.000-07:002010-10-04T18:40:55.211-07:00Pinus sabiniana - Grey Pine<i>Pinus sabiniana: Pinus</i> is the Latin name for <i>P. pinea; sabiniana</i>: is a Latinized form of the name Sabine, for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sabine">Joseph Sabine</a>, an English naturalist. <br /><br />Also known as Foothills Pine. This tree is now seldom referred to by its historical (and derogatory) name, Digger Pine.<br /><br />Native to dry, rocky foothills and valleys in California at or below 1,000-3,000' elevation. Predominant pine in the foothill woodland and chaparral regions, generally below the <i>P. ponderosa</i> belt in loose, scattered groves.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgarqWcKj0qyQMbXNcF7RZklth7Y1oVCSTOSwn7Ea7B_0kwU27wqTUvrPDL-6txj4X2ioo5GXn5WdJeY88itd8_Masg_ejkgBTpDhvKhH0hWRv-nfzstizQ8esfGhVc4IJXakMumKFItTk/s1600/Pinus+sabiniana+Eric+in+SF.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgarqWcKj0qyQMbXNcF7RZklth7Y1oVCSTOSwn7Ea7B_0kwU27wqTUvrPDL-6txj4X2ioo5GXn5WdJeY88itd8_Masg_ejkgBTpDhvKhH0hWRv-nfzstizQ8esfGhVc4IJXakMumKFItTk/s400/Pinus+sabiniana+Eric+in+SF.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520138113577592626" /></a><center>Growth rate fast to 40-80' tall and 30-50' wide. Young trees are usually pyramidal, later developing multiple, irregular trunk leaders and U-shaped forks and taking on an oval form with sparse foliage on slightly drooping branches. Attractive soft-textured pine with a delicate appearance in youth, older trees developing spindly trunks with multiple forks and sparse, wispy foliage. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEqwimQIr4-UFR9jKZMmioYah8ofMiGR_42FGg3ZIioD6XVNitENTwROnWgbO6YR7zDjqkPb86ZbSUPjU0_M9_kKUrBU30ziQFQ6apEgI0B2rtiqzJpxcPKYcFE0dnzsktaDGokGDUCCA/s1600/Pinus+sabiniana+needles+with+cones.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEqwimQIr4-UFR9jKZMmioYah8ofMiGR_42FGg3ZIioD6XVNitENTwROnWgbO6YR7zDjqkPb86ZbSUPjU0_M9_kKUrBU30ziQFQ6apEgI0B2rtiqzJpxcPKYcFE0dnzsktaDGokGDUCCA/s400/Pinus+sabiniana+needles+with+cones.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520138107836008594" /></a><center>Needles are soft, bluish gray-green, 7-13" long, 3-fascicled. </center><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9lDheFL_KbBQ2i2G05_jAJ-rkdUJ-yzCXx1eEE6Q3a1peRNFSDA4sV3e2mYaf-4jVqAlE5KCoTPPHvbLSKuunvsfBcVevILlUaUWLCVPLfnSDOIUsXHHuZBpyY7GUvU6iNmRM6_Amhmk/s1600/Pinus+coulteri+Pinus+sabiniana+cone+comparison_9333.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 347px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9lDheFL_KbBQ2i2G05_jAJ-rkdUJ-yzCXx1eEE6Q3a1peRNFSDA4sV3e2mYaf-4jVqAlE5KCoTPPHvbLSKuunvsfBcVevILlUaUWLCVPLfnSDOIUsXHHuZBpyY7GUvU6iNmRM6_Amhmk/s400/Pinus+coulteri+Pinus+sabiniana+cone+comparison_9333.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520135802246498050" /></a><center>Cones are light brown, oval, 6-10" long, heavy and bulky with tan recurving scale tips, maturing in fall of the second year, but may remain attached for years, opening gradually and releasing seeds for a long period. Compare to <i><a href="http://lh2treeid.blogspot.com/2010/09/pinus-coulteri-coulter-pine.html">P. coulteri</a></i></center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_RXTZaPAh2TJEoDqgmdbLp5DjzHJLioQBLSUnjZEYJ5TdKx6u-PKBfYiMOwXZVavinWrwrvDrpabPkREZ2OxzZbXlxaLEA2EQk4idMXFVe07UK4UGRVd1r133j-YrBc7o8aoEoOzZh94/s1600/Pinus+sabiniana+Pinus+coulteri+cones+scale_9325.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_RXTZaPAh2TJEoDqgmdbLp5DjzHJLioQBLSUnjZEYJ5TdKx6u-PKBfYiMOwXZVavinWrwrvDrpabPkREZ2OxzZbXlxaLEA2EQk4idMXFVe07UK4UGRVd1r133j-YrBc7o8aoEoOzZh94/s400/Pinus+sabiniana+Pinus+coulteri+cones+scale_9325.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520138582914869762" /></a><center><i>P. sabiniana</i> (left) is wider and rounder. <i>P. coulteri</i> (right) is narrower. Both can be enormous! Notice also that the Coulter Pine's cone scale tips are lighter in color than the interior portion of the cone scale, compared to the Grey Pine's darker cone scale tips. </center><br /><br /> <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV-JBrLpyEepm4QN6sCo28wNJHSpF_8vD9gKRNGw_MUY-eCsnpgSIUXkyod-XjJ9fru6EwxB_uEME01-lAJeeq8uessK7w6ZXPq5tUGqmkJeRCqRY8iBOuCBh0ZJjw7LVmCvyyPpZp7wE/s1600/Pinus+sabiniana+bark.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV-JBrLpyEepm4QN6sCo28wNJHSpF_8vD9gKRNGw_MUY-eCsnpgSIUXkyod-XjJ9fru6EwxB_uEME01-lAJeeq8uessK7w6ZXPq5tUGqmkJeRCqRY8iBOuCBh0ZJjw7LVmCvyyPpZp7wE/s400/Pinus+sabiniana+bark.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520138097336833842" /></a><center>Bark is dull gray, darkening and thickening with age, becoming roughly furrowed with scaly ridges. The bark of this foothill pine (Pinus sabiniana) is oozing a sticky, golden pitch. Such pitch was chewed like gum by the Wappo natives in the region in and around what is now Bothe-Napa Valley State Park. The tree’s cones were used as fire starters, and the nuts were harvested for food.</center>Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2331276873323564700.post-25903495181905609532010-09-22T20:45:00.000-07:002010-09-22T21:41:54.015-07:00Pinus torreyana - Torrey Pine<i>Pinus torreyana: Pinus</i> is the Latin name for <i>P. pinea; torreyana</i>, named for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Torrey">John Torrey</a>, an American botanist, after whom the coniferous genus <i>Torreya</i> is also named. <br /><br />Compare to <i><a href="http://lh2treeid.blogspot.com/2010/09/pinus-coulteri-coulter-pine.html">P. coulteri</a></i> and <i>P. sabiniana. </i><br /><br />Native to the San Diego coast of southern California. Rarely cultivated, but adapts well to inland or high desert conditions, tolerating heat and moderate drought. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-W4VHY82TLM53tF5dsExLHKFXi_GL-ZKK-bXUHo48py-x8gIapBpnxFI4dm8tctOD5Z1w3yQlKHJacExHbMuspwVIpK767HZN4SHbkv-7GOFAaaIXkl2odW61Oh-U-R9t9MS_wtu7TFc/s1600/Pinus+torreyana_9334.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-W4VHY82TLM53tF5dsExLHKFXi_GL-ZKK-bXUHo48py-x8gIapBpnxFI4dm8tctOD5Z1w3yQlKHJacExHbMuspwVIpK767HZN4SHbkv-7GOFAaaIXkl2odW61Oh-U-R9t9MS_wtu7TFc/s400/Pinus+torreyana_9334.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519959987905473122" /></a><center>Growth rate moderate to 40-60' tall by 30-50' wide, developing a broad conical form with stout branches, becoming somewhat irregular or prostrate in windy coastal areas. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJpTlHSkaxHGYaEi8tSzUtU0L8PNMHDrI6SUytV7uJU_BwFSWCBRdK7HWtyq5gPlr75JAbVlp8KyQMgMQLXBw5QM8AGWjdNPjc7sq7ICbGaaYtiN5pwpfIuyJAFuyHwlMpq7iNoRByRjM/s1600/Pinus+torreyana+needles+sky_9337.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJpTlHSkaxHGYaEi8tSzUtU0L8PNMHDrI6SUytV7uJU_BwFSWCBRdK7HWtyq5gPlr75JAbVlp8KyQMgMQLXBw5QM8AGWjdNPjc7sq7ICbGaaYtiN5pwpfIuyJAFuyHwlMpq7iNoRByRjM/s400/Pinus+torreyana+needles+sky_9337.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519959983858895586" /></a><center>Needles are dark bluish to gray-green, 7-11" long, 5-fascicled, clustered in large bunghes at branch tips, persisting 3-4 years. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWy5n47BJSRtl7eGHL_eRNLfgz15UMT5bTl9IJALSNqJu6MH6fDKvpzs0KYSduC2yPsAxoFGHW3plR7QNiNZIYO6NnA5l8qXHghhlGzcTfLyLbcHmDMqW-2V5orVFe76_oTvl1Gj7FKWM/s1600/Pinus+torreyana+fascicle+scale_9338.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 205px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWy5n47BJSRtl7eGHL_eRNLfgz15UMT5bTl9IJALSNqJu6MH6fDKvpzs0KYSduC2yPsAxoFGHW3plR7QNiNZIYO6NnA5l8qXHghhlGzcTfLyLbcHmDMqW-2V5orVFe76_oTvl1Gj7FKWM/s400/Pinus+torreyana+fascicle+scale_9338.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519959971110703794" /></a><center>Needles are similar in length to <i><a href="http://lh2treeid.blogspot.com/2010/09/pinus-coulteri-coulter-pine.html">P. coulteri</a></i>, but are in fascicles of 5 (vs. 3 for <i>P. coulteri</i>), and <i>P. torreyana</i>'s cones are much smaller (see below). </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7K9hRMImdPxvMz2sHf9ptFGm7gN5rmDisLaGLN_Ph1kR4kfVOj2k5EXaRDL_AM1jpQnKvRoL4EQDBZbKCdUZuwmAo_LQr51ADTBVounkTVyyVpzsjgMTjYkPzqqn74ntN35QtOhCs-Cs/s1600/Pinus+torreyana+cone+inner+side_9340.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7K9hRMImdPxvMz2sHf9ptFGm7gN5rmDisLaGLN_Ph1kR4kfVOj2k5EXaRDL_AM1jpQnKvRoL4EQDBZbKCdUZuwmAo_LQr51ADTBVounkTVyyVpzsjgMTjYkPzqqn74ntN35QtOhCs-Cs/s400/Pinus+torreyana+cone+inner+side_9340.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519959970817129410" /></a><center>Cones are dark brown 4-6" long, oval with a flat base, attached strongly to branches with a thick, short stem, ripening in summer of the third year. Scales have a thickened triangular apex with short, fat recurving spines. Dark brown seeds 1/2 - 3/4" long are released over a long period of time. </center><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhduuHIPdHPUrFi7ak0cek7ocJrfc7taoEaY3OZEVzQiluXN4iuV9BrrleWZiNz4-9BST1RKoD4d6eHkHUsUouoR1zWNWEKlQOk03ySSfjXIq1iD0U6i3QJYHUnMJJHi3l-IecFzMwJ-vM/s1600/Pinus+torreyana+bark_9348.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhduuHIPdHPUrFi7ak0cek7ocJrfc7taoEaY3OZEVzQiluXN4iuV9BrrleWZiNz4-9BST1RKoD4d6eHkHUsUouoR1zWNWEKlQOk03ySSfjXIq1iD0U6i3QJYHUnMJJHi3l-IecFzMwJ-vM/s400/Pinus+torreyana+bark_9348.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519960749137038706" /></a><center>Bark is thick, dark brown, becoming broken into ridges with wide, fattened, reddish brown scales. </center>Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644174102673257399noreply@blogger.com3