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I make my final push this month to clear these areas of invasives and start prepping them for fruit trees, berries, grapes and their companions.
It doesn't look like much pictured from above - and without having a comparable before image - but we've been at it since March and it feels, finally, like the home stretch.
This is a silk floss tree. It stands on campus outside our department building. It is believed that the silk floss tree developed its spikes as protection against megafauna, especially mega sloths. 🤯🤯🤯 I mean, what am I supposed to do with awesome information like that? I think I’m going to have to lie down. Someone fetch me my smelling salts. 🦥🦥🦥 @academicchatter#sloths#megafauna#florida#miami#trees#treesofmastodon
#FungiFriday#Mushtodon + a cheat for #ThickTrunkTuesday
I see lots of #fungi on #trees living and dead here, and lots of #mushrooms on the ground or fallen wood, but I do not often see regular looking, stemmed mushrooms on standing trees! In fact I think I've only seen it once before, and it was quite near this one- in a stand of Populus balsamifera /Balsam Poplar, in moist/mesic mixed woods on the farm. I forget, for sure, but this may be a dead standing tree. @nature#BorealForest#Alberta
Mine is a female tree but birds and squirrels eat most of the berries. The berries are awful, chemical tasting. 2 cycles of cold stratification needed to germinate seeds. Flowers smell faintly like honeysuckle with a little jasmine. Dried, they smell like floral fresh hay.
Today’s reminder that we are still very far from knowing everything: I have just found an odd gap in the scientific literature: the specific mechanisms of generating root pressure in trees and how this relates to the force that tree roots can exert on their surroundings (eg pavements/sidewalks), and what those forces actually are. As far as I can see, having done an extensive literature search, nothing has been done on this since the 1970s. Zilch. Not a sausage. Frustrating! #science#trees
After a month off to move house and do family things, I'm back, and I can't wait to be getting out with my camera more often again. Anyway, here's one from the Forêt d'Andaine, Normandy, France.