Barry, Cucumber trees are harvested for the cukes that are pickled..yum yum..
Gary Prof. Gary A. Beluzo Systems Ecologist Holyoke Comm College 303 Homestead Ave Holyoke, MA. 01040 On Sep 15, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: > I appreciate it Ed. By the way, outside of this ENTS Google Group, > I've never heard of a Cucumber Tree. I still don't know what one is. > And as to the age of the tree, WOW! > Thanks, > Barry > > --- On Mon, 9/14/09, Edward Frank <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Edward Frank <[email protected]> > Subject: [ENTS] Fallen Cucumber Tree - Four Years later > To: "ENTS Google" <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 8:30 PM > > ENTS, > > In the late winter of 2004-2005, likely around February 2005 a large > cucumbertree fell along the Red Eft Trail at Cook Forest State Park, > PA. A measurement of the tree a couple years previously found it to > be 111.2 feet tall and 11.6 feet in girth. > http://www.nativetreesociety.org/fieldtrips/penna_cook_forest/cook_nov18_2005/cook_forest_cucumber.htm > What makes this tree particularly interesting is that a tree ring > count of cookie cut from the fallen trunk about 21 feet from the > base yielded 439 rings, making it the oldest cucumber tree ever > documented. Below is a series of photos showing the tree as it is > today, colonized by a wide variety of plants and fungi. Also a > large toad hopped under the log while I was taking these photos. > There are many photos, but I have hideously compressed them for this > message. > > Some of you might not appreciate this exploration of the decay of a > single log, but some of you will. I would encourage each of you to > spend a couple hours exploring the biota of a single fallen log and > see what you find. > > Ed Frank > > > “To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, a > nd in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was ne > ver seen before, and which shall never be seen again” - Ralph Waldo > Emerson > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
