Barry, It actually does look like redbud from this photo. But it's a Japanese Coral Bark Maple. That color is the actual color of the branches. It makes a great winter ornamental tree. Of course, this is the Eastern Native Tree Society, so I shouldn't be posting it...but I couldn't help myself!
Thanks for guessing! Jenny On Mar 21, 8:26 pm, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: > That last happy tree, is it a Redbud? The color doesn't look right though. > > --- On Wed, 3/18/09, JennyNYC <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: JennyNYC <[email protected]> > Subject: [ENTS] Hemlocks - HWA? > To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 6:47 PM > > 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
