George: I agree with Steve- A. glutinosa, European Alder, is also know as Black Alder. Your picture made it easy to identify. Have you used the USDA website plants. Here is the link for European Alder. http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ALGL2 I was interested in your find because I came across on several weeks ago and was stumped for an ID for several days. Mine was a single planting in front of a school. I understand it has been used for strip mine reclamation in the distant past. Probably for its nitrogen fixing ability. Were all your trees measured single stem? Have you compared them to Pa Big Tree List? Welcome to Ents TS
On Nov 9, 8:28 pm, "Edward Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: George Fieo > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 8:27 PM > Subject: Hazel alder ? > > ENTS, > > Hello everyone. My name is George Fieo and this is my first post. I > reside in Limerick Twp., SE Pennsylvania. Today my son and I rode our bikes > along the Schuylkill River searching for some trees to measure. We measured > several trees and the last was one I could not identify. I think it may be a > Hazel alder. Most of the other trees leaves have fallen or are in their > final color stage. This tree is still green and is why I noticed it. It is > a single stem that measures 27" cbh, 40' h, and 15' s. I will attach some > pictures if anyone can help ID this tree. Here are the circumferences for > the other trees we measured. > > Tulip poplar cbh 213" > > Silver maple cbh 244" > > Red maple cbh 162" > > Norway maple cbh 140" > > Boxelder cbh 116" > > Thanks, George. > > Hazel Alder003.JPG > 158KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
