Barry, to follow up, I checked my book shelf and in a book titled "The Great Cypress Swamps" by the great John Dennis, it mentions that there is supposed to be a stand of bald cypress in a swampy area near Newark, N.J., another at a pond in eastern Long Island, and still another 35 miles north of NYC, near the Bear Mountain Bridge. It is thought these stands could be attributed to seeds eaten by wood ducks in "ornamental plantings not far away and carried by the birds in their crops or stomachs" to the aforementioned sites.
John Dennis was a wonderful naturalist and free-lance writer. He took one of the very last photos of the ivorybilled woodpecker, in Cuba in the late '40s. He also felt he saw the bird in the Big Thicket in TX in the '60s. On Aug 29, 1:52 pm, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: > How interesting. I haven't heard about that. > > --- On Sat, 8/29/09, Gary Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Gary Smith <[email protected]> > Subject: [ENTS] Re: Bald Cypress found last week > To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, August 29, 2009, 9:59 AM > > Seeded by a wood duck, I reckon. > > There is supposed to be a pretty nice grove of bald cypress credited > to wood ducks, either in N.J. or Long Island, N.Y., can't recall > which, offhand. > > On Aug 28, 9:33 pm, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Last week I was at Atsion, another of our ghost towns. Near the > > ironmaster's mansion I found a very small Bald Cypress growing along a > > stream bank, a very appropriate place for one to be. But what the heck is a > > Bald Cypress doing in the pine barrens? I don't know. I know the one at > > Weymouth was planted. > > Anyway, attached are some photos of the tree and some of its knees. Enjoy, > > Barry > > > DSC03564.JPG > > 426KViewDownload > > > DSC03565.JPG > > 254KViewDownload > > > DSC03566.JPG > > 180KViewDownload- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
