ENTS, Last year in September I had crossed to an island in the Potomac River (Offut Island) and came across a large hackberry. I had wanted to return to get better measurements, and did so last Friday (10/24/08). This island is only accessible when the water in the Potomac is very low. The D.C. area hadn't had rain in a while, but we were going to over the weekend. Friday was possibly my only chance to go this year when the water was low, but some leaves were off the trees. So I crossed to Offut Island, only got my feet wet, and measured the tree:
Celtis occidentalis - 11' 3" x 100.2' The cbh is pretty significant for our area, but I'm pretty sure I can find taller ones. Also over the weekend, I'm embarassed to say that on Saturday I visited Gettsyburg. Visiting in itself, of course, is not embarassing, but not finding Dale's hickory is. All I can say in my defense is that from the description I thought I would be able to find it. I don't have GPS so wasn't able to use that, but checked the trails right around Big Roundtop, and also got soaked (pouring rain) in the process. Pignuts were the most common hickories in the area with some mockernut. I didn't see any bitternut. I measured a large white ash (maybe the same that Dale measured) at 115.9.' Other notable trees were what I'm pretty sure was red mulberry along a trail and Celtis tenuifolia on the top of the hill. Sorry I didn't confirm the hickory. Dale, you may want to email me a marked up map showing the location and I'll try to keep in my records for next time. Darian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org You are subscribed to the Google Groups "ENTSTrees" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
