Jenny,
I am new to the group however; I wanted to take a stab at the "tree quiz", Pic. 1 - One of the hemlocks (Maybe a closer shot of the needle arrangement) Pic. 7 - Japanese red cedar (Cryptomeria spp.) Pic. 10 - Japanese maple (Perhaps Cultivar "Coralbark") Steve Springer Urban Forester City of Bartlett -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of JennyNYC Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:17 AM To: ENTSTrees Subject: [ENTS] Re: Hemlocks - HWA? Will and Ed, Thanks for having a look. And thanks for the confirmation of HWA. I get vague answers from the staff when I ask whether all the trees are afflicted and whether or not any are being treated. Easy enough to look at every single one since there are only a handful to confirm this. The DEVIL is Aralia spinosa - Devil's Walking Stick. I joke a lot that we are removing the Devil and the Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus) from the Forest. Nobody really laughs though...I can't figure out if they don't get it or the joke is just getting really really old or it just wasn't that funny in the first place! Good idea to take pix from the same perspectives as the postcards. The ones by the river will be easy, but I have some other old pix that will be trickier. As for the Happy Tree quiz: They are all native to Japan. See wat you can do with that, sensei. And Ed, nothing gets past you. It was so subtle the way I incorporated where I live with my name, wasn't it? (there are so many Jen, Jenny and Jennifers that I had to add something, but so far I'm in luck here.) Jenny On Mar 19, 6:52 am, Will Fell <[email protected]> wrote: > That is the HWA alright. > > In your list of trees, what is the "devil"???? > > On your tree quiz, I would really be guessing...but the tall one is > some kind of fir???, the short conifer a lacebark pine and the other > one a red-osier dogwood. > > On Mar 18, 9:47 pm, JennyNYC <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > Investigated the hemlocks at NYBG. Here are some pix of the needles > > and twigs. I wanted to confirm that the white fuzzy stuff is HWA. > > And then a forlorn picture of a huge gap left by dead hemlocks - > > mostly removed by garden staff. I saw that Prunus serotina, red maple, > > the devil, beech, sweetgum, and ash were beginning to fill the large > > gap. The ash may have been planted manually. > > > .Also, a few happier, healthy trees in the Garden for you to guess > > about and 2 postcards c. 1906 of the days when Hemlocks were the main > > event. > > > Hope all is well. > > > Jenny > > >http://picasaweb.google.com/JennifDudley/Hemlocksauthkey=Gv1sRgCLn77c.. . --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
