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| Hi Folks, I thought you guys would enjoy this YouTube link. Don Leopold, a professor of environmental and forest biology, has over 135 1-2 minute long videos on different native/non-native trees in the Upstate NY region. Many of the trees are commonly planted in the Eastern US. I like reading about trees, but sometimes it's nice listening to someone gab about trees too. Sort of like preaching to the choir. Does anyone else have any good video links? |
Here is a link that might be useful: Dendrology - Don Leopold by SUNY-ESF Television
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| Very interesting. I have a question though to the greater group - I happened to pick the red maple one to watch and he said red maple trees are dioecious (trees are male or female). I don't think that is entirely true. I can find references to them being "polygamo-dioecious" which is a less absolute way of describing them. |
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| He also claims pinus ponderosa is the most important pine for timber in north america. I had always thought the eastern pines like p. strobus and p. taeda were more valuable for timber than any western pines because of superior growth rate and growing conditions. Still, I do enjoy his vids. I stumbled upon them about a month ago and have watched many of them. John |
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| It's a good service he's done, I'm not discounting that. I had just not heard of maples being described that way. Although I have since found a reference that 'Autumn Blaze' is considered to be a clone with only male flowers, not sure if that is true either .... |
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| My trees tagged as 'Autumn Blaze' have flowered and produced samaras in the past. All 5 of the larger ones I purchased did this. The flowering was very sporadic and the samaras were very small, much smaller than either rubrum or saccharinum. I have no idea if any germinated. I also have a smaller one in the 8-10' range that has not flowered yet. |
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| Pinus ponderosa has become the most important timber pine as the eastern pines have been logged off - much wider distribution than the pines on plantations in the south. And Hortus Third says the genus Acer is 'commonly unisexual' |
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| Psuedotsuga menziesii, Douglas Fir is the tree that produces the most timber for lumber. At least I read that somewhere a few days ago. Here's some of mine. Mike |
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| Mike, he does mention something similar to that in his video of douglas fir. Ah yes, he says "it is the most important timber species in the US" |
Here is a link that might be useful: DF
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| Anyone else have video links for tree lovers? |
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| Red maple comes in all male, all female and combinations. |
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