tree sex

[SwampDonkey]

Butternut - male pollen flowers emerging



Fully elongated male butternut flowers



Walnut - male pollen flowers emerging




European Larch - receptive female flower turned upright for pollination.



Sugar maple - male pollen flowers




Black Ash - purple colored male pollen flowers

[Tom]

Here in Florida our Tree orgy is subsiding.  The pine and oaks have already dusted everything and the "flowers" have dropped  While many of the Bays still show blooms, most of them have the remnants of their seductiveness alitter below their boughs.

[Kedwards]

Thank goodness the tree  pollen is gone.. I thought I was dying of histamine last week . I had to take a claritin to saw and not for the sawdust either.

[SwampDonkey]

hmm I thought tree pollen was too big to affect allergies. I thought it was from grasses and herbaceous plants that was most iritating. That's what they seem to be broadcasting on medical science shows. Not trying to belittle your allergies, it sure isn't fun to have the condition.

cheers

BTW, I'm trying to figure out your avatar. Its an embryo of something isn't it? ;)

[Tom]

Here's a quote from http://www.hoptechno.com/book46.htm


"Grasses and trees, too, are important sources of allergenic pollens. Although there are more than 1,000 species of grass in North America, only a few produce highly allergenic pollen. These include timothy grass, Kentucky bluegrass, Johnson grass, Bermuda grass, redtop grass, orchard grass, and sweet vernal grass. Trees that produce allergenic pollen include oak, ash, elm, hickory, pecan, box elder, and mountain cedar."


This site  has the most common allergy producing plants and seasons by area of the country.

http://www.allergyescape.com/Pollen-Allergy.html  

[SwampDonkey]

Tom:

I'm glad white birch isn't on the list because everything including my handheld GPS was covered by the tiny yellow particles this week in the bush.

AaaaaaaaaaChew!!  :D

Top the allergies off with.....

DanG varments! Snowshoe hares were bouncin off the tent at night and drumer ruffed grouse beatin at all hours of the night and day. How's a man in the bush get his sleep? :D :D

cheers

[Tom]

 :D  I keep thinking of counting snowshoe hares jumping over the fence and grouse for breakfast. :D

[Fla._Deadheader]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Grouse. Makes my mouth water. GOOD EATIN, Maynard ;) ;) ;D

[SwampDonkey]

errrm  :-/

I saw baby hares half grown already and its only been 3 weeks since the snow left. I think the area was good for grouse, since I saw 4-10 and 12-guage cartridges along the road. mmm birch and poplar for food and dense softwood thicket for cover, good habitat for the critters and fowl. Yesterday I found a beat down path used by moose and bear. And I mean beat! down!. The dang moose was so hungry they even were eating fir bows in small patches. Chocolate covered moose marbles anyone? :D  ;D

[SwampDonkey]

Female butternut flowers emerging.






Fully receptive female flowers

[SwampDonkey]

Box elder flowers


Two different trees.

[Elmore]

Ginkgo biloba 'Autumn Gold' in flower. 'Autumn Gold' is a male cultivar and these are male flowers.

[tomboysawyer]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Grouse. Makes my mouth water. GOOD EATIN, Maynard ;) ;) ;D

I'm about to have 11 baby ruffed grouse - but grouse season is soon to be over and I wouldn't want to take out mama grouse.





(Many thanks for the allergy inspiring photos!)

[beenthere]

..............

I'm about to have 11 baby ruffed grouse - but grouse season is soon to be over and I wouldn't want to take out mama grouse.

Grouse season open in Vermont? : ???

I thought it was like in the fall, started Sept., and over the end of December. ???

[tomboysawyer]

Grouse season open in Vermont? : ???

I thought it was like in the fall, started Sept., and over the end of December. ???

Ooops. You're right. September - December. It is turkey that is open right now.

[TexasTimbers]

Those don't look like the leaves on our  Box Elder trees Donk. Wonder why ours is different?

[SwampDonkey]

Kev, they aren't fully elongated yet. Another name for it is ash leaf maple or Manitoba maple.

[TexasTimbers]

I have said this before but Tree I.D. is an area of study that should have a warning label that reads:

WARNING!

Tree identification is a tricky, elusive and difficult undertaking. Tree identification photographs accurately represent their respective species, except in those cases when they do not. All other times they can, but not necessarily and certainly never always. This warning is subject to individual interpretation.[/i]

I guess you figured I have sort of given on up on becoming good at tree i.d.

[Dodgy Loner]

 :D :D :D  Nice, kevjay, I should've printed that on the syllabus for the students in my dendrology class.  I'm sure they would have loved it (and they would have understood why by the time the class was over).