Steve, Carolyn and Larry # 1 is Horse Sugar or Sweet leaf.....Symplocos tinctoria. A small tree with a sweet leaf that deer love.
#2 is Blue Lupine # 3 and #4 Loblolly Bay, Gordonia lasianthus, an evergreen tree that is covered with white magnolia like flowers in June. It is related to the "Lost Gordonia" now known as the Franklinia Alatamaha. It used to be in the genus Gordonia, but was reclassified to the new genus Franklinia a while back. While it is deciduous and the Loblolly Bay evergreen, the flowers are very similar and even the leaves look similar. #5 is Turkey Oak Quercus laevis, a sandhill oak with thick fire resistant bark and leaves that are oriented perpendicular to the sun's angle to minimize the transpiration on the hot droughty sites they occupy. #6 Red Swamp Bay, Persea palustris which is slowing being wiped out along with avocado and sassafras by the laurel wilt fungus spreading up and down the coast. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
