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There are Costal Redwood in Olympic national forest. One is next to the old ranger station outpost on the Sol Duc river and I'm no expert but my guess is it was planted when the station was built in the 50s. Some of the city parks in Port Angeles have both Coastal Redwoods and Giant Sequoia...both aren't uncommon in yards all over the olympic peninsula. Joyce has a whole row of redwood right when you drive in to town.
If you use a search engine and ask if rubus ursinus is evergreen or deciduous you get two different answers. Some sites say evergreen and some say deciduous. One site says deciduous/evergreen: semi-deciduous.
I have a dawn redwood and I live in northeast Texas and unfortunately this Spring only one side of the tree is blooming. I’m trying to figure out what is causing this so I can save it. The tree is about 12 feet tall
I'm in WV and am now planting 10 seedlings on my 300 acre farm. I found a supply of redwood boards from a water tank used and saved back in the 1940s. I hope to have my Grandchildren see these survive and they in turn nurture them.
Is there a map of the “California Bay Laurel” / Umbellulone-trees naturally occurring dense growth areas in California ? Or southern Oregon / Grant’s Pass area ? It has some nice stuff in its aroma (Eucalyptol [eucalyptus], Eugenol [cloves], both alpha and beta Pinene [evergreen trees]…. … but also produce a ketone called umbellulone which produces those terrible headaches ….
Back in the '70's I sold Christmas trees in Michigan. Of the several thousand trees we would sell each year we would get about 50 or so of these. They were beautiful especially if they were decorated with white lights. I remember the smell was almost like an orange.
00:50 wait you said the dawn redwood produced cones for the 1st time in centuries, in 1952, even though it was only exported out of China in the 1940's after being discovered alive
She had a lot of her historical facts mixed up. The fossils the Japanese paleontologist was looking at in 1940 were from the US, not Japan. The tree originated in what is the US today over 100 million years ago. They spread quickly up north across Alaska into Asia (and nearly into Europe), and then they quickly died off almost everywhere except in the small river valley in China. So what she probably meant is that it produced cones for the first time in NORTH AMERICA in centuries (and by centuries, she meant 1.5 million years).
I am sorry I do not speak English well. I am a tree collector from Poland. I have over 200 species and varieties. I am most interested in yews. At the moment I have 55 varieties. In Europe, there is a problem with obtaining Taxus canadensis and Taxus brevifolia seedlings . Can you send them to Poland? Regards Gregory
Cascara Sagrada helps to cleanse the colon of damaging toxins and waste products, it is commonly used as an ingredient in many detox and cleanse herbal formulas. Cascara Sagrada together with Psyllium husks are two of the most widely used remedies in colon cleansing programs.
Just an update on that A flute I was making from Douglas Fir. It was one of the best flutes I have ever made. I wanted to keep it for myself and play it forever, but unfortunately, a guy in Santa Fe who plays Native American Style Flute totally fell in love with its tone, and I wound up selling the flute to him.
Thank you for the correction. Indeed, Bishop pine (Pinus muricata) which is found mostly in California as well the Channel islands and parts of Mexico has two needles to a fascicle (bundle). The needles of this pine typically have a twist to them and the serotinous cones remind me of chestnut-colored hedgehogs in appearance. Cones which typically take 2 years to mature can persist on a tree for up to 70 years- quite remarkable even for pines.
