2022-3-9, Notable Trees

 I thought I would put together the pictures of various notable trees that I have seen.

2022-05-25, Chinkapin Oak, Sharon, 41.892317,-73.448860.  State Champion: http://oak.conncoll.edu:8080/notabletrees/ViewTreeData.jsp?selected=225940






2022-04-11, Pinchot Sycamore, Simsbury, 41.8475722,-72.8068167.





2022-3-4, Dewey-Granby Oak, a white oak, Quercus alba, location: 41.965428, -72.825828, Granby, CT.  More information at http://oak.conncoll.edu:8080/notabletrees/ViewTreeData.jsp?selected=56001 .



2022-3-4, National Champion Black Oak, location: 41.9487806,-72.7463972, East Granby, CT.  More information at http://oak.conncoll.edu:8080/notabletrees/ViewTreeData.jsp?selected=40002 .




2021-11-22, Dawn Redwood, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, location: 41.7741167,-72.7198861, Elizabeth Park, West Hartford, CT.  More information: http://oak.conncoll.edu:8080/notabletrees/ViewTreeData.jsp?selected=226455 .






2021-1-23, Yellow Birch, Betula alleghaniensis.  More information at http://oak.conncoll.edu:8080/notabletrees/ViewTreeData.jsp?selected=226358 . Location: 41.929887,-72.80776, McLean Game Refuge, Granby, CT.




2020-12-22, Swamp White Oak, Quercus bicolor.  More information at http://oak.conncoll.edu:8080/notabletrees/ViewTreeData.jsp?selected=40009 .  Location: 41.956165,-72.725856, East Granby, CT.





2020-5-7, Sassafras, Sassafras albidum.  More information: http://oak.conncoll.edu:8080/notabletrees/ViewTreeData.jsp?selected=7001 .  Location: 41.621199,-72.745699, Berlin, CT.





2019-1-17, Coast Redwood, Sequioa sempervirens.  Location: 38.5339, -123.0038,  Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve, Guerneville, CA.



2018-3-23 Indian Banyan Tree, Ficus benghalenis.  "The tree came to the inventor's Fort Myers winter home in 1925, a four-foot Ficus benghalenis producing white sap that Edison and his friends Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone hoped to use in making natural rubber." Location: 26.6335, -81.8800, Edison Winter Estate, Fort Myers, FL.





2018-1-14, Great Bay Laurel, Umbellularia californica.  Location: 38.55807,-122.79305, Foothill Regional Park, Windsor, CA.




More information about the birds that put these acorns in the tree's bark: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Acorn_Woodpecker/lifehistory .



2017-5-31, Eastern White Pine, Pinus strobus.  Location: 41.873578,-73.343106, Gold's Pines, CT-128, Cornwall, CT.  More information: http://oak.conncoll.edu:8080/notabletrees/ViewTreeData.jsp?selected=226005




2014-7-30, Eastern White Pine, Pinus strobus, more information: http://oak.conncoll.edu:8080/notabletrees/ViewTreeData.jsp?selected=225481 .  Location (approximate): 41.645349,-73.095482, Thomaston, CT.
 


2014-2-28, Eastern Red-Cedar, Juniperus virginiana.  More information: http://oak.conncoll.edu:8080/notabletrees/ViewTreeData.jsp?selected=54005 .  Location: 41.6444,-72.6155, Great Pond Preserve, Glastonbury, CT.




















David Reik

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