Everybody in this area calls them buttonwoods. I've never used the term Plane Tree except when referring to London Planes. Click this link for the MSN (Bing) Bird's Eye View: http://tinyurl.com/yb5b4wq The church in the middle of the view is the Methodist church, on Brainerd St. The Friends Cemetery is directly behind it. The huge treetop just above and slightly to the left of the church steeple is the tree in question. The Friends Meeting House can be seen on the south side of Garden Street, near the top left corner of the view. Just south of, and downhill from, the Methodist Church there is a public parking lot, which can be seen if you scroll down a little. You can either park in that lot or in the Methodist Church parking lot. There are open gates into the Friends Cemetery from the Methodist Church parking lot. Nice tree in your pictures, by the way. Have you seen the giant buttonwood along the Hope-Johnsonburg Road in Warren County? (Should be easy to find on a map.) I think it's the largest in the state. I've got a photo of it somewhere with a friend standing with his back to it, with his arms stretched out, and still not being as wide as the tree. Barry --- On Sat, 1/2/10, x <[email protected]> wrote:
From: x <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ENTS] Huge buttonwoods found today To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, January 2, 2010, 11:05 PM 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 -- 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] -- 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] -- 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]
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