Interesting Tree Pics from abroad....

[Arborist Sites]

Lets see your holiday tree pics

 

Greek Islands.....

 

 

 

 

 

[Arborist Sites]

A really good atempt at bracing...

 

Note its not the lights they had used good quality webbing and twisted it at point of contact to reduce friction..

 

 

 

 

[gibbon]

California

Senegal

Costa Rica

Panama

Romania

[Rowan the Bruce]

Treesurfer dont mean to be rude but that last pic the leaves look like a sea grape (Coccoloba uvifera) to me. Sure ain't no olive

Where in Portugal was the cork oaks? I'm off to the Algarve tomorrow.

[MasterBlaster]

Does that kill the cork tree? Yes?

[sean]

Does that kill the cork tree? Yes?

 

no...the cork is harvested every year. There are ancient cork oaks still being harvested for the cork

[sean]

no...the cork is harvested every year. There are ancient cork oaks still being harvested for the cork

 

Not each tree is harvested every year. A plantation will be on rotation with each tree giving up its cork cambium every 9-12 years

[Rich Rule]

Where in Portugal was the cork oaks? I'm off to the Algarve tomorrow.

 

Mate, check out the cork oaks around the national park, on the west coast of the algarve. some amazing beaches and scenery.

 

I remember seeing cork oaks near amado beach and a few others when surfing there a couple of years ago.

 

enjoy your hols.

[mdvaden]

One pic is of a man walking down through ferns to a redwood, last Thursday. And from yesterday, a man next to a redwood with a root almost 2 meters thick extending to the right.

Edited September 22, 2009 by mdvaden