Napping Next to a (bird) Deciduous Tree 🌳 on Sleepy Bird Sunday
Been thinking of making a series of birds as trees, as that seems to be an unmarked territory. (Also exploring my other brushes I've never really used.)
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#1873 - Platanus × acerifolia - London Plane
AKA Platanus × hispanica, or hybrid plane. A very common urban tree in many parts of the world, because of its tolerance for air pollution and soil compaction, and resistance to anthracnose cankers. Unfortunately, in many parts of the world hardly anything will eat it, which doesn’t help biological diversity in the aforementioned cities, and the small stiff hairs shed by young leaves and dispersing seeds are an asthma trigger.
This was one of many growing around the Melbourne CBD, where my asthma was being well and truly triggered.
It’s believed to be an accidental hybrid of Platanus orientalis (oriental plane) and Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore), but it’s possible that it’s a cultivar of P. orientalis. Either way, the seeds are fertile.
London Plane is a deciduous tree up to 40 m (131 ft) tall, with a trunk that can be up to 3 m (10 ft) or more in circumference. The bark is usually pale grey-green, smooth and exfoliating, or buff-brown and not exfoliating. The palmate, lobed leaves are thick and stiff-textured, and up to 25cm broad. Unsurprisingly, the leaves can also be a problem once they pile up on roads and sidewalks.
Some urban birds will pick the seeds out of the seed balls, and the timber is a quite attractive form called ‘lacewood’ but in many parts of the world the trees are being removed and replaced with more ecologically sound choices.
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Plant of the Day
Thursday 14 March 2024
In early spring the Magnolia × soulangeana (saucer magnolia, Chinese magnolia) flowers before the leaves emerge. As long as there is little wind or frost these trees will provide a glamorous display.
Jill Raggett
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kinda makes me sad to see so many young deciduous trees people plant just arent pruned properly
so here you go!
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Vincent van Gogh, Large Plane Trees - Wikiart
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“Aurum”, lutruwita/Tasmania, 2019
Fagus, Tanglefoot, Deciduous Beech (Nothofagus gunnii, (Hook.f.) Oerst) is a tree of many names, but an identifying feature that supersedes them all – it’s Australia’s only cold-weather deciduous species.
Endemic to Tasmania’s alpine country, they are found in just a few small pockets of the island. Every year, tourists come from the world over to experience “the change,” turning from heritage green to flaming oranges for around a week.
Photo © Benjamin Alldridge
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Plant of the Day
Friday 8 December 2023
This autumn I saw the cones on Pseudolarix amabilis (golden larch, false larch, golden pine) for the first time. This is a slow-growing, deciduous tree with whorls of light green, linear leaves, which turn bright golden-yellow in autumn.
Jill Raggett
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got asked to do a neighbourhood walk-around at work to pick some flowers/vegetation and i was so cautious to only grab stuff that was abundant, only take a bit from each, only take stuff that was spilling over into the street and not behind fences etc, STILL got raked over the coals by an angry woman for it which is the exact situation i was anxious about. i mentioned it to a coworker and after some context she’s like “oh that’s esther, she picks flowers all the time from gardens so i dunno why she’s so mad about it”
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