Hey Barry, wow, that is a pretty wild looking plane tree! almost looks like an upside down giant octopus or something!
obviously open grown, but such a wild shape that it's pretty awesome nonetheless
what street is that Quaker house on? would love to hit that tree the next time
I happen to get down that far southwest.
here are links to a couple of photos (POOR quality, just did a super quicky
ISO6400 digital macro photo under a 40W bulb of a small print from a film
camera and did not touching up!) of the large Plane Tree (also known as
Sycamore ) growing in our town:
Photo 1 of a large Sycamore
Photo 2 of a large Plane Tree
(I don't know what no stinkin' buttonwood is haha. That term must be used in
only certain parts of southern NJ. It's not used anywhere in northern NJ that I
know of nor down south in Toms River, NJ either. Never heard anyone call 'em
buttonwoods before other than you. Maybe you made it up! Google says it is the
name of a tropical hardwood that occasionally appears in FL....)
-Larry
From: Barry Caselli
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 12:47 AM
To: ENTS
Subject: [ENTS] Huge buttonwoods found today
ENTS,
Today I was off from the cranberry farm yet again. Since December 24 or
so I've been dealing with having a bad cold (which is almost better now), and
having water in the basement, which is where I live, plus not working for
various reasons. But I'm taking advantage, and doing some exploration, walking
and photography.
Today I started at Weymouth and did an update video to the extreme high
water video I did there last Sunday, the 27th. I then drove all the way up to
Mt. Holly, which is an estimated 15 miles further north and west from the
cranberry farm. I used a lot of gas getting there.
My main reason for going to Mt. Holly was to photograph a whole mess of
churches I had missed last time I was there, because they were on a street that
I had not walked on.
So anyway, I ended up walking past the Friends meeting house again, and
noticed that the big buttonwoods I had seen last time were in full sun this
time. So I got good pictures of them. This was when I realized how huge they
were! So it ocurred to me, why not measure them! I hadn't measured a tree in a
while. So I found my tape and measured them. The larger one, which is the one
with the unusual shape, has a CBH of 16'5", and the smaller one 13'3". The
larger one is the largest buttonwood I've ever measured, though not the largest
I've ever seen.
Friends (Quaker) cemeteries are great places to find large trees such as
buttonwoods and white oaks. To refresh your memory, a buttonwood tree is an
eastern sycamore, which I'm sure you can tell by seeing the pictures.
This Friends meeting house was built in 1775 and the burial ground may be
older than that. So the trees likely date from that era, at least I would think
so.
Barry
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