Great photos. I didn't know the ogeechee lime, aka white tupelo (nyssa ogeche) got that big of a base. Love the honey that comes from those trees. I get some mail-order every year.
In the last photo, the fluted columns on the bald cypress standing behind the tupelo are interesting. gs On Oct 11, 10:10 am, "Will" <[email protected]> wrote: > Gary > > I have seen Indigos a few times, but they are secretive and live primarily > in gopher holes on sandhills. They share their habitat with diamondbacks and > the gophers who dug the tunnels. Unfortionately many of these sandhills are > considered dead land and are cleared for other uses as they won't grow > timber. As an example about 15 years ago the county bought a 200 acre > sandhill a few miles from me and converted it to an industrial park. They > relocated several hundred old gophers to one of the coastal islands, but the > snakes in the holes just got obliterated. > > As for the Ogeechee Limes, they are plentiful. As I follow the discussions > on the problems of accuratly measuring the girth of old large multistem > oaks, I really wonder how they they would treat an old ogeechee lime. Below > are a few pictures from the area. > > Will, > > Do you ever see any Eastern indigo snakes? I think GA and FL is about > the only places they are left. > > I think the Ogeechee is famous for that small variety of tupelo from > which the bees make the famous tupelo honey. > > gs > > Ogeechee Line and Pete Krull.jpg > 711KViewDownload > > ebeneezer creek 3_1_08 Ogeechee Lime.jpg > 270KViewDownload > > ebenezer 5_18_08 Ogeechee Lime.jpg > 275KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
