Bob: Sounds like a good idea. BTW--rememeber that tree that you, Monica and I initially misidentified while looking at its bark during a hike in the woods behind Monica's house a month ago? That would be a good tree to start with. You said you were going to give me a picture of that tree anyway--but I would also like to see what ENTS think it is when they see the picture of the bark.
The black oak bark from Mount Tom looks like black oaks near their northern range limit in MN. Lee [email protected] wrote: > Steve, > > There are tupelos on Mount Tom, but not where we were yesterday. Your > observation suggests a collective ENTS project. We could submit images > of a favored species, where identification has been positively made, > but physical features make quick visual identification difficult, i.e. > physical characteristics at the limits? What do you think? Others? We > could then put the characteristics images into an ENTS species gallery? > > Bob > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Galehouse" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, November 8, 2009 10:38:13 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: [ENTS] Re: Dendrology - the study of trees, # 1 > > Tim- > > The photo of black oak bark looks like tupelo to me. The species must > be more variable than I thought. > > Steve > > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Timothy Zelazo <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > ENTS: > > Another great day to walk and talk with Bob Leverett in the great > outdoors.. I've always enjoyed identifying the forest trees while > I walked the land. Today was especially enjoyable because I > encountered various species I'm not accustomed to seeing. Black > oak was my new tree for the week. > > Tim > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
