daltontrees
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Bang on! An absolutely gorgeous tree.
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Are the leaves unfurliung in those pictures? They certainly look like they are heading for Poplar. All my ID books are in my survey box in the car and it's too cold outside to go and get them. The vein form should be definitive.
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It is not Beech.
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I can't keep up... Sorry RobArb, we don't have the same tree at all. Yours is altogether wierd looking.
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Determined to get a cut leaved alder, aren't you? NO that's not it. And the offer to eat my hat is withdrawn since there is only one common variety of T. dolabrata which you could guess without knowing anything about it.
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T. dolabrata it is! Variety? Shall I pop out for some ketchup?i
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Let's see if anyone else gets it, then you can see a fully provenanced label and your misery will be over. Not even willing to hazard a guess at Genus meantime?
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Bark and foliage this time, if you get the variety I may have to eat my climbing helmet.
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Oops, your correct Poplar guess came in while I was composing my last posting. Well done.
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A tricky single leaf ident... from Arduaine again.
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It may well have been beside a pond in the botanical garden. I think I will have to tell you what it is. I thought it was guessable but I would do as I knew the answer and saw (and heard) the whole tree.
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You can have my copy for half that price. I'll deliver it personally anywhere in the world.
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I agree with your observations but neither is correct. By the way, it's not something exotic.
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It was just too high, and I only had the mobile phone camera. I am waiting for a Conservation Area notice to expire (6 weeks) before I go back there to take down the P. squamosus victim, if the brackets are still there I will get a better shot. Alas not likely to last that long. Fungi, that is, not me.
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Sorry, I realise now the foliage pic is a poor one as it doesn't have the tips of leaves showing. Could be a A. davidii 'George Forrest' it has almost circular leaves. See if you can get this next one just from the bark and the whole-tree picture.
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We got a call to look at fungi on a client's tree, turned out to be Polyporus squamosus. Then client said it was growing on his trailer too, parked nearby. We had a look, I think it is Pleurotus. Client made the trailer himself from GRP and aluminium and he swears there is no wood in it. So what are these doing here? The trailer is in regualr use out on the road. The fungus is getting pretty good spore dispersal, I reckon. Anyone got any other oddly located air-eating fungi pics to rival this for inexplicability?
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The guy who labelled the Katsura even spelt Cercidiphyllum wrong, maybe wasn't very clued up on taxonomy either. The most recent addition isn't either of those two guesses. You are forgiven for not getting it right first time, I was surveying trees for the Council in Glasgow Botanics when I came acrooss a mature one of these and was an embarrassed and stubborn 1/2 an hour with ident books before I was comfortable with my ident, I didn't dare admit to the manager that i didn't know what it was. As ever, photo taken of lowest leaves and may be slightly unrepresentative. OK, here's the bark. Very young.
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by the time you've read this you could have silkyed the crown off, chucked it down, put a pull rope on high up, had a cuppa and a fag, eyed it up and felled/pulled over the rest. Take a sharp saw, silver maple is like nails. SOOOOOPerb firewood.
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More from Ardkinglas, no point in hiding the location from you all, it's an 'unseen' location anyway. Award yourself full marks if you get it from this pic, the follow-up pic would be a big clue and will reeduce the marks bigtime.
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Here's the official labelws from Ardkinglas. Full marks all round.
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Tree physics limits height and leaf size, study shows
daltontrees replied to Matt GT's topic in General chat
Hey, don't apologise. It's an interesting subject. Two ways to look at it are (a) trees just are , okay? and (b) why, how, where and when do they grow so big? Both valid views of trees. But the article has got me thinking ... i'll refrain from hypothesising wildly myself for now. -
I reckon one of these is seriously worth considering. We would always have a 200T and a back-up 200T on a job anyway, so what's the hardship of having the leccie one AND a back-up petrol one for when the batteries die? We always have petrol and oil anyway for the bigger saws. So we would have all of the benefits of the electric saw and none of the drawbacks. It's a naughty thought, but could be handy for Conservation Area work where the client has overlooked the need for Council notification. Not that we would take such an instruction....
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Cercidiphyllum is right, the labeller didn't add a species. The Di (two) phyllum (leaves) was a great help for me learning it too to distinguish it form Cercis which has similar but alternating leaves. The second one is indeed a Quercus. Any guesses at species? I have only been to Arley for my AA Tech exams which mercifully I don't have to repeat. Didn't see much of the place except the courtyard, greenhouses, car park and a woodland. Some day it would be nice to go there just for fun but it's a long way away. I had success germinating seeds last year though hard coats, by sandpapering them a bit then soaking for a day then planting. 100% success rate. Haven't tried A. griseum.
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OK then, two more. Make allowances for the second one being very young.
