Will,
I hope that when you're on the Altamaha River you're keeping your eyes sharp
for a sighting of the functionally extinct Franklin tree (Franklinia
alatamaha), endemic to the River. As I'm sure you know, none have been
found in the wild since the 1800s.
--
Carolyn Summers
63 Ferndale Drive
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
914-478-5712
> From: Will Fell <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:45:55 -0700 (PDT)
> To: ENTSTrees <[email protected]>
> Subject: [ENTS] Re: Diamondback
>
>
> James
>
> The first photo is on a blackwater lake off the Altamaha River
> downstream from Jesup Ga in Wayne County and the second and third are
> on Ebenezer Creek in Effingham County, a blackwater tributary of the
> Savannah River just north of Savannah GA. They are Ogeechee Limes
> which are Tupelos, (Nyssa ogeechee) and are very common on blackwater
> streams in SE GA and FLA.
>
> On Oct 14, 6:38 pm, "JAMES L. FAY" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi-
>> Can you tell me what kind of tree you are standing in and where they are? I
>> retired from Sales & Marketing at age 52. A few years ago my appendix burst
>> while I was in the Lobby of Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. I woke up 4
>> months later, having had a Stroke and my Left Leg amputated. I could find
>> no "Classy" Walking Sticks so I taught myself how to turn wood. I am now a
>> Master Turner. I have always love trees and wrote to someone about a 500
>> year old Sycamore here in Norfolk,MA-3 or 4 Houses away. The house was
>> built in 1700s-early. My wife is in this recent photo.
>>
>> Jim
>> The rounded parts are Boles and someday when the tree passes; all the Canes
>> inside that tree will get loose......
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on
>> Behalf Of Barry Caselli
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 6:15 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [ENTS] Re: Diamondback
>>
>> Wow! I've never heard of Ogeechee Limes, and have never seen trees
>> like those.
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --- On Sun, 10/11/09, Will <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> From: Will <[email protected]>
>> Subject: [ENTS] Diamondback
>> To: [email protected]
>> Date: Sunday, October 11, 2009, 8:10 AM
>>
>> 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
>>
>> SYCAMORE- PRE 1700.JPG
>> 684KViewDownload
>>
>> LakeStreetSamuelDuntonHouse.jpg
>> 105KViewDownload
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>> S-10082009-1.JPG
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