Ed, ENTS. Does anyone know why the Google list no longer shows the complete file names on the photos. I find this annoying. For example the last one is titled " The Golden Wood ".
JP On Nov 8, 1:27 pm, James Parton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ENTS, > > Last Thursday while at work Cecil Harris told me of a chestnut he had seen on > the Blue Ridge Parkway and tried to give me a rough location of where it was > at. Yesterday I went up to try to find it. I checked two overlooks on the > right and found no chestnuts but I did find a Chinquapin ( Chinkapin ). It > was the first one I had found with nuts in years. However the shrublike tree > had considerable blight damage including cankers, dead limbs and the > tell-tell orange spots of the fungus. This tree had thinner leaves without > the lighter colored underside that I knew from the Chinquapins in our yard > from my Starnes Cove days. I have read that open-grown trees versus forest > grown ones exibit some differences. Maybe this is one of them. > > I found a grove of nearly a dozen chestnut trees below the Hominy Valley > Overlook at 3980ft above sea level. These may be the trees that Cecil saw. > They are located in a clearing below the overlook among briar bushes and > other weeds. Naturally this made navigating and measuring the trees > difficult. All of the chestnuts had considerable blight damage with some > having dead stems. However I found two that had managed to bear. However > among the burrs I found no nuts. However I noticed that the attachment scars > on the inside of some of the burrs was quite large. A possible sign of viable > nuts. The fact that they are two nut bearing trees close to one another may > mean that cross-pollination could take place. I found no nuts though. Still, > critters could have carried them off. > > I measured the sprout ring around an old root collar where an old stump once > was. It was 9ft 8 1/2in in circumference. This gives me some idea of what > size the original tree was before the blight killed the main trunk. It was > just over 3ft in diameter! The largest sprout is 1ft 9 1/2in cbh. The tree > sprout is 29.53 feet tall. It is one of the taller ones in the grove. Another > tree was measured to 2ft 11in in girth. > > On the way back home my attention was caught by a grove of bright yellow > Tulip Poplars located just above the Chestnut Cove Overlook. I stopped, > grabbing my measuring gear and camera and set out into the woods. I first > measured two of the taller tulips and took a couple of photos. Afterwards I > attempted to climb down a steep hill, falling in the process. It sure seems > that falling hurts worse as one gets older! Stepping down into the grove was > an awe inpiring sight. The leaves were so yellow that it was nearly > eye-hurting. Among the Tuliptrees were Maples that had a tinge of orange to > them. It reminded me so much of the Golden Woods of Lothlorien in LOTR. A > truly enchanting place. My pictures did not do the place justice. The Mallorn > Trees of Lothlorien closely resemble Beeches. Beeches like Tulip Poplar turn > yellow or yellow-orange in the fall. > > The first poplar measured was 134.51 feet tall and 7 feet 11 inches in girth. > The second measured was 139.60 feet tall and 9 feet 5 1/2 inches in girth. > Does anyone in ENTS have any idea of how old these trees would be? My guess > is about 100 years. > > James Parton > > Allegheny > 97KViewDownload > > Chinquapin.jpg > 124KViewDownload > > American > 91KViewDownload > > Chestnut > 151KViewDownload > > Chestnut > 133KViewDownload > > The > 188KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
