Do you have a favorite tree?

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Is this not awesome?:



I've just fallen in love with trees lately. It was hard to pick just one to post here. Of course, no pic could do real justice to nature's magesty that is the tree.

Oaks are one of my faves too.

Anybody else have a fave?

[LastKnight]

1. whatever leaf...

... or herb your smoking, give me some.

-LK

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6. ah, um, I can't spell the sound I'm making

Nah, I'm totally serious. And I've never seen a tree thread here, so what the heck, you know?

Its pouring rain here now, has been all day, and in between the downpours the green is just jumping off the trees, and I've become enamored.

They're groovy dude.

(btw, I may be leafing it tomorrow, then you'll see a tweakin' thread, I'm sure. But for now, I'm totally sober, totally clear headed, and just trippin' on nature, man.)

;)

[LDS Jock]

2. Magnolia trees in blossom

Love them.

[boobooday]

3. We have some awesome trees -- I love trees too

Big red oaks, Sugar Maples, poplars, sycamores, dogwood, and I think my favorite: Shagbark Hickory. Those are some crazy trees.

I think being called a treehugger is a compliment. :-)

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[Kadie]

4. Oh Yeah.

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10. wow

wow

[senseandsensibility]

5. I like birch

the white trunks are pretty!

[Zorra]

7. I love trees.

They are beautiful beings.

[Teddy_Salad]

8. Dogwoods in blossom

I just love them.

I also have a Corkscrew Willow.
These trees are really cool.

Everything is bent and twisted on them. The leaves, the branches and the trunk, hence the name.
And, if you take a small clipping off a Corkscrew Willow and place it in a bucket of water for 4 to 6 weeks, it will grow roots.
Then you can place it in a pot for it to grow and become a little established and then it can go in the ground.
From one tree, you could grow a hundred more, easily.

One warning though. Like most Willows, it's not advisable to put them over or near sewer drains. They'll give you a nasty big plumbing bill.

But they are wonderful trees.

[starroute]

21. I love willows too

Probably weeping willows are my favorite. I feel a personal bond with them, and have since I was a kid. I like them because they're kind of spooky and magical and very maternal.

The vitality of willows is incredible. Once, many years ago, a big old willow blew over in a hurricane at the place we were living and was cut into logs. The next spring, those logs were putting out shoots.

The willow out in my back yard now is one of the twisty kind -- probably the same as what you describe as a contorted willow. I was out a couple of days ago picking up the branches it had dropped over the winter and found that one which had stuck upright in the dirt was putting out leaves and doing its best to grow roots. So I pulled it up gently and stuck it in an area with ground cover where it won't get mowed. If it comes through for me, I've got a place to plant it.

[SW FL Dem]

9. Ficus Nitada

Great shade tree, grows fast, evergreen in warm climates.

[scarlet_owl]

11. I like 'em all.

There are some pretty cool honey locusts in our woods. They are the ones with wicked looking spikes on the trunks.

[SarahB]

12. weeping willows

:nopity:

[Teddy_Salad]

13. Check this one out

Australia has some amazing trees.
This is one of them....the Boab tree.

Check out the trunk on this......it has it's very own water cooler.

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14. Strange looking

Reminds me of "Day of the Triffids" for some reason.

Cool, but bizarre.

[Mr. McD]

15. The Jacaranda tree

[Teddy_Salad]

29. Where did you get that picture from?

Hi Mrmcd! :hi:
Thanks for posting the Jacaranda tree. I can't believe I forgot about these beauties.

I used to reside in Perth, Western Australia and the suburb we lived in had these everywhere.
My wife, who's from NYC, had never seen them before and was awestruck by their beauty.

They are truly a magnificent tree.

Judging by the side of the road that car in the picture is on, it sure looks like Australia.

Do they have them in California?

:yourock:

[Mr. McD]

37. I just did a web search

(http://www.)jacaranda.suite.dk/images/jacaranda-2.(jpg)

There are plenty of Jacaranda trees in California. At least here in the southern part of the state. I have one on the hill behind my house. :hi:

[Triple H]

16. The rare Ironwood.

[chaska]

17. I think that I shall never see ... as lovely as a tree.

I really like tulip poplars in groves - trunks like columns holding up a high sheltering canopy. Poplar groves are some of my favorite, most calming, places I've ever been.

Live oaks are pretty hard to beat. They embrace the space around them as a opposed to the space above. Again very sheltering.

I've run into a lot of new and extrememly beautiful trees since moving west that I don't know the names of yet.

I'd have to say that my favorite-ist tree of all is the sugar maple. I love New England for it's maple trees above pretty much everything else, and there is much to love about the place. A beautiful tree that makes beautiful lumber too.

I feel sorry for non-tree people.

[Earth_First]

18. California Redwood

the sheer size and magnitude of standing next to one will make one feel very insignificant in the grand scheme of things in a very short period of time...

[TacticalPeek]

19. The Larch.

Picture No. 1:

The Larch. The Larch.


And Now . . .





Picture No. 1:
The L A R C H.


And now . . .





Picture No. 4:
The larch.


And now . . .





Picture No. 5:
The spanish inquisition

NNNNobody expects the spanish inquisition!!!


Our chief weapon is suprise...
surprise and fear... fear and surprise....
Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency....
Our THREE weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...
and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope....
Our FOUR...no... AMONGST our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as
fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.

I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition.

NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as:
fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms
Oh damn!

[Egalitarian]

25. Larch in early summer...

Tender, grass like bunches of green growth that beckon one to touch. It's almost as wonderful to watch the showers of needles rain down in a late fall windstorm. Such, wise, seemingly smart trees. Second only to redwoods from what I've observed.

[GregW]

34. Swish!

Sound of your post flying over the top of everyone's head :D

I'm just pissed you beat me to it!

Well, of course, this is just the sort of blinkered philistine pig-ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome spotty behinds squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker's cuss for the struggling artist. You excrement, you whining hypocritical toadies with your colour TV sets and your Tony Jacklin golf clubs and your bleeding masonic secret handshakes. You wouldn't let me join, would you, you blackballing bastards. Well I wouldn't become a Freemason now if you went down on your lousy stinking knees and begged me.

[peekaloo]

35. LOL!

:D

[kevinam]

20. easier to name least favorite...

for me, in my area (near Atlanta) has to be the sugar gum. I think that is right. They are the ones that drop these awful spiked pine comb things. Just hundreds per tree. From what my tree guy told me, after they get so old, or so tall, the top half of the tree splits off and falls, and then it starts growing again from there.

A couple that I like. A neighbor has a couple of Japanese Maples (I think), they aren't real big, but the colors of the leaves is great. The bradford pear is a also a pretty nice tree. Has great white flowers in the spring, and in the fall the leaves turn from deep red to purple, and look very cool. Living in the south, the Dogwood is also a favorite...Kevin.

[mouse7]

22. Cherry trees blossoming

http://www.theorientalcaravan.com/images/Postcard%20from%20Nagasaki/Kenrakoen%20Cherry%20Blossom,%20Okayama.JPG

[bhunt70]

23. Japanese Maple.

[Teddy_Salad]

36. Yeah, I have two of them...

Damn beautiful trees, especially during the Spring with their red leaves.

[aquaman]

24. I like the Screaming Trees.......the band

Oh, my favorite actual tree is the Oak. But I live in the south so that is easy.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

26. Oaks.

Big, gnarly, acorn-flinging oaks with bark so thick you can wedge your fingers between the crevices. I love them all year round.

I'm also very fond of catalpas in the spring, lifting their conical clusters of sweet white flowers to the sky.

And silver poplars, rows of them marking the boundaries between country fields, shimmering in the summer breeze.

[ellie]

27. I love Cottonwood trees.

They are very beautiful.

[theoceansnerves]

28. joshua trees

[LWolf]

30. A yucca.

Not a tree. But an awesome yucca. I'm surrounded by them.

[LWolf]

31. Several favorites:

1. Sequoia
2. Ponderosa
3. Oak
4. Maple
5. Willow

[LuCifer]

32. Bald Cypress

If you're not a native Floridian, you probalby have no clue in hell what a Bald Cypress is. Ok, you see them mostly, not entirely, out west of town (if you are on the west coast of FL, reverse that! EAST of town!) and they shed their leaves in "winter" time (again, this is a Florida Thing, since we really DON'T have winter now do we!?)
You will usually see them growing by a body of water, like a canal, swamp or lake. They grow about 50 feet tall and can live anywhere from 50 to 100+ years! So they are kinda the California Redwood of Florida. A great place to see the HUGE stump of a Bald Cypress is at this nature preserve in Pompano, it's at Lyons Rd. & aw hell I forgot the cross street! I think it's Atlantic Blvd? I forgot the name of the place, so, don't quote me on this! You should know it when you see it...it's the last large size of UNdeveloped land in South Florida!!!!!!!!

Lu Cifer

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33. mimosa

very pretty

[Philosophy]

38. Weeping willow

My grandparents had a bunch at their house when I was a kid. They just bring back so many fond memories.

[m-jean03]

39. That's a beauty alright.

My favorite is the madrona.