The GREAT TREE Thread ! !

Search
Go

Discussion Topic

Return to Forum List
This thread has been locked
Messages 541 - 560 of total 969 in this topic << First  |  < Previous  |  Show All  |  Next >  |  Last >>
perswig

climber
May 22, 2014 - 06:45am PT
Cool wood, folks. Biotch, your mutant Ponderosa up top is excellent, a little spooky.


Dale
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Topic Author's Reply - May 22, 2014 - 10:30am PT









Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
May 22, 2014 - 02:02pm PT

Morgan & Ola-Conny - How much years old? Swedish-English spoken here...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
guido

Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
May 22, 2014 - 02:28pm PT
walt

climber
Kirkwood, CA
May 23, 2014 - 12:49am PT
guido

Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
May 23, 2014 - 12:30pm PT
perswig

climber
May 25, 2014 - 03:53pm PT
Little help with tree ID, if you don't mind.

This showed up in a neglected topsoil pile w/in the past year; I'd like to transplant it somewhere appropriate. Thought an elm of some sort, but the bark looks too smooth. Sumac? Ornamental? Dunno.

TIA.
Dale



sempervirens

climber
May 26, 2014 - 11:22pm PT
perswig, cherry. There are many different kinds of cherry of course. I'm guessing that one is a cultivar, and probably produces an edible fruit. Be sure to makes sure before eating though, there are toxic cherries too.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Topic Author's Reply - May 27, 2014 - 01:58pm PT
Good stuff DMT!!!

HighTraverse

Trad climber
Bay Area
May 27, 2014 - 02:32pm PT
Scott Patterson

Mountain climber
Craig
May 27, 2014 - 02:49pm PT
A very, very, old tree (around 201,000,000 to 235,000,000 years old):

survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Topic Author's Reply - May 27, 2014 - 02:55pm PT
Very cool.

How does one know it's 280 million years old? Curious, because I couldn't find anything.
Scott Patterson

Mountain climber
Craig
May 27, 2014 - 03:12pm PT
How does one know it's 280 million years old? Curious, because I couldn't find anything.

My mistake. I looked it up and it's actually 201-235 million years old. It is in the Chinle Formation, which is from the Late Triassic (Late Triassic is 201-235 million years old).

http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/coloradoplateau/lexicon/chinle.htm
perswig

climber
May 28, 2014 - 06:24am PT
Ah, thanks much, sempervirens!
Oddly enough, the algorithm I followed for leaf ID took me to cherry, but I discounted that as unlikely as none seem to be nearby.
Gift from the wind, I guess.

Thanks again.
Dale

edit: SV, I used this, expecting little, and was pleasantly surprised. (Pretty sure I've got a cool old hand-drawn taxonomy guide somewhere as well, but I couldn't lay my hands on it when I needed it.)

http://forestry.about.com/od/treeidentification/tp/tree_key_id_start.htm
sempervirens

climber
May 28, 2014 - 08:22pm PT
Perswig,
I'm not familiar with any algorithm for identifying leaves or plants. Is there a link you could send describing it? Thanks.
Maybe the cherry tree was a gift from a bird. And Elm leaves are pretty similar.
SC seagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
May 28, 2014 - 09:25pm PT

Susan
sempervirens

climber
May 29, 2014 - 08:31pm PT
Hi Timid,
Lake Davis? I mean, reservoir Davis?
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jun 14, 2014 - 08:02am PT
"Just TRY to have a private talk around here! Nawmean?"
"I knoooow!"
"That picture of the dead 'un just slew me."
"I knoooow!"
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2014 - 10:04am PT
It's hard to convey the true majesty of Sierra old growth Juniper.

But you gotta try!!!



mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jun 16, 2014 - 10:32am PT
You'd be nuts to try.Is it possible to relay the trad grandeur of a trade route?Not this time.
Messages 541 - 560 of total 969 in this topic << First  |  < Previous  |  Show All  |  Next >  |  Last >>
Return to Forum List
 
Our Guidebooks
spacerCheck 'em out!
SuperTopo Guidebooks

guidebook icon
Try a free sample topo!

 
SuperTopo on the Web

Recent Route Beta