Overlooked at Schoepfle Garden
June 23, 2018
The last time I went to Schoepfle Garden, I noticed for the first time this paper-bark maple tree.
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June 23, 2018
The last time I went to Schoepfle Garden, I noticed for the first time this paper-bark maple tree.
I’m glad I’m not the only one shooting tree bark. This is very nice, Linda. It looks similar to the birch trees we have here.
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June 23, 2018 at 8:34 AM
Thanks, Ken. We have paper-bark and river birches here that have similar bark, but this maple’s bark was overall darker.
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June 27, 2018 at 4:58 PM
What a fantastic image of bark.
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June 25, 2018 at 3:21 AM
Thank you, Andy. The tree was very cooperative.
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June 27, 2018 at 4:59 PM
Wonderful!
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June 26, 2018 at 5:57 AM
Thanks, Harrie!
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June 27, 2018 at 4:59 PM
Wow, Linda, now you’re making things up! 😉 Just kidding. What a smorgasbord of color! I think of the positive qualities of age when I see this – you can’t get that amount of complexity without living for a few years.
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June 26, 2018 at 12:24 PM
Yeah, these wasn’t a spring chicken. 🙂 The green, which must be lichen or algae, surprised me.
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June 27, 2018 at 5:00 PM
Yes, it looks like a lichen, which I have to remind myself, is a fungus-algae combination, and I believe they usually have bacteria playing in the mix too.
Oh, here’s what a lichen is: “a kind of community writ small: an imponderably complex internally consistent, self-sustaining ecosystem composed of who-knows-anymore-how-many lichen-forming fungi, algae and bacteria.”
Click to access readings_2_nameless.pdf
I haven’t actually read through it, just grabbed that one piece. But this guy is great. I think I already shared his site with you a while back.
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June 29, 2018 at 3:15 PM
Thank you for responding to a comment that started, “Yeah, these wasn’t.” These wasn’t??? Yes, you did send me to that link before. Bears repeating. Thanks.
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June 29, 2018 at 3:27 PM
I take it back. At least I never read that PDF before. How delightfully written it is!
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June 29, 2018 at 3:37 PM