Greetings, Steem fam, I hope y'all are having a good Sunday! I'm here to tell you about a mistake I made regarding tree identification. Somebody call Maury Povich, because Emmy's parents are not her parents! Dun, dun, DUN!
You are not the father!
So when I identified Emmy as an elm tree, I pulled out my tree books to be sure. But then I thought the two trees at the front of the parking lot were her parents, based on passing by and thinking they looked similar, plus their proximity to the balcony meant that seeds could have easily blown in (since Emmy volunteered in my peppermint pot three years ago). But last night I was leaning on the balcony ledge looking out, and I realized: they are not the same tree species! They're not even elms!
Not an elm.
The senior trees are ASH TREES. How can you tell? Ash tree leaves are parallel to each other. Elm trees' leaves alternate.
Like this!
OK so they're both toothed leaves, probably other people have done this, but man, minus points if you're a druid. I feel sheepish. I should know my trees better!
Emmy's underbelly. :D
I feel extra sheepish because I did a tree snap entry for them, lol. I deleted it last night, and will have to redo it with them properly identified as ashes.
So Emmy really is a magick tree of the fae who flew in on the wind. There aren't any elms very near that I am aware of. Will be on the lookout now for suspects! :)
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You're forgiven this time around, but if you err ever again, you might get a spanking.
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OMG, come teach me trees please! I know almost nothing. The little trees I left alone last year (because, TREES!) turned out to be black walnut trees! Super stoked, but I though they were just random weedy trees to be grown for the next hugel. Glad I didn't stick with that plan.
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Ooh, black walnut trees!! That's awesome!
I was thinking I should do "tree/plant education" type posts, actually. I would learn more doing them, too, and cement things I kinda know, lol. Would you be interested?
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Hell. Yes.
There's so much to learn about trees. Anything that helps, gets love from Nate.
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LOL, right on! I'll have to work on some, then. :)
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Ooh, black walnut trees!! That's awesome!
I was thinking I should do "tree/plant education" type posts, actually. I would learn more doing them, too, and cement things I kinda know, lol. Would you be interested?
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Well You're a lot better than most people...namely me. I barely have an idea what species are what most of the times
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I don't know all of them, either. It takes time and making that connection in person vs. in a book. Like, I can read about a tree all day but until I've ID'd one in person, I probably pass them all the time and don't realize it!
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At the first glance at the first image, I thought "POISON IVY"... down home I
Ranged the woods in shorts, many times barefoot and never had any poison
Ivy reactions, there is a vine called "Virginia Creeper" that is easy to mistake
(The creeper is actually quite nice looking and could be used for ground cover)
When I moved up here to Hotlanta, I had never truly encountered P Ivy, HUGE
Hairy vines climbing trees and fences, with berries so it gets spread by boids.
I spent considerable time trying to make the back yard of one place I lived for
About 5 months safe(er) for the landlords grands to go out and play, and still
Never had any adverse reaction.
I've read that one can be immune/non allergic as a child and have that change
As an adult, or the other way round, be allergic then not with age.
I'm glad Emmy isn't Poison Ivy.
Upvoted @phoenixwren Keep up the good work.
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Wow, that's lucky that you never had a reaction! I honestly don't see poison ivy around here - though I could just be being inobservant. A quick google implies that it is more common in the southern half of the state, and less so in the north. Denver is right in the middle, so maybe like many things, we're right on the border of natural regions. We're just to the east (by about an hour's drive? Less?) of the continental divide (where the water runs to the Pacific on the west side and to the Atlantic on the east side); my tree books park the east/west divide of plants practically right on the north-south highway that runs through town; the SW desert pretty much officially stops here, we're considered "high desert" being right on the northern border of it; tornadoes almost always hit east of that north-south highway but almost never west of it; wildfires pretty much stay west of it and don't cross east of it. Ahhh, sitting right in the shadow of a big ass mountain range! It's the convergence of everything and simultaneously kinda a buffer zone. LOL
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