>Favourite native tree thread Hey /out/ what is your favourite

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I live by a matire honey locust that will get leaves very soon,

It is a pain though because the leaves get into the pool

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Ce bouleau jaune est l'arbre emblématique du Québec. Le terme "merisier" est un canadianisme.

>>992647
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>>992758

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Yaupon Holly
The only North American plant that produces caffeine.
It also makes a downright tasty tea if I do say so myself.

>>992671
I love chewing/smelling yellow birch twigs, the wintergreen taste is great.

I can't pick a favourite tree... probably American beech (Fagus americana), but I'm partial to red spruce (Picea rubens) and jack pine (Pinus banksiana).

I'd love to see osage orange, tulip tree, and sassafras IRL, but I haven't been in those southern forests.

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Mezquite

One of the most useful trees with very beautiful wood.

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Manzanita bush

>>992671
FRÈRE
Québec is one of the best places to go /out/

>>992985

OP here I even like the name of your tree. I here often people make bonfires of the logs because they burn slow

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>>992991
It has a very hard dense wood. But since the wood have a very nice grain and a cool redish color, I hate burning it. The only time I burn the mezquite is when I smoke meat and burn the leftovers of my projects.

>>992982
Where do you live? I've seen all of those as far north as southern Michigan and northern Ohio.

Metasequoia glyptostrobides

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Celtis occidentalis

dat bark

Hard to pick... mostly wetland trees: cottonwood, red/silver maples, arborvitae, black willow, etc.

They're non native I'm pretty sure but I also love those huge ass willows that tend to have several thick trunks coming out a massive base, see them a lot along stream banks and swamp edges.

>>993551
Am in southern Michigan, I know for a fact we have Tulips, pretty sure we have sassafras, not sure about osage though.

>>993987
Hackberry bark is awesome and the asymmetrical leaves are also cool. I was surprised when I found out it was in the same family as Cannabis (Cannabaceae).

>>993551
I live in Eastern Ontario. I know it occurs in the most southern areas of Ontario, bordering the US, but I've never explored these areas.

I'd love to smell Sassafras, it sounds awesome.

I should also amend my list: the lowly balsam poplar is one of my favourite trees. In the spring, as the buds expand, the buds have this incredible resinous cloying smell. It's one of my favourite smells and a good indicator of the coming of summer.

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#1
The Larch

TheLarch

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>>994010
Oh thats scientists shitting things up. It used to be in the ulmanaceae family.

>>994013
Sassafras is starting to bloom in nyc

>>992985
I second this. Best bbq too.

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Western red cedar
So many different uses
The bark is really fibrous
The wood is the best for shingling as it doesn't rot
Cedar mulch mulch can boost soil acidity
It's a great climber and it smells great

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Probably the Arizona Cypress
They only grow in small-ish stands and it's always nice to find them among the Pinyons and Junipers

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>>992647
This was my favorite tree until one of you "muh campfire" spergs burned it down

>>994362
This shit pisses me off so much. If you want a fire you can just as easily use deadfall or chop branches or chop down a small (fast growing) tree if you had to. Killing a beautiful ageold tree makes me want to take a branch and beat them with it

>>993995
>not sure about osage though.

I've never seen one in southern MI. That's why I included Ohio. There are some in the Port Clinton/Sandusky area that I've seen.

>>994013

I live near Windsor. I haven't seen any sassafras around, but then, I haven't been poking around the woods much since I've moved here. I've seen it in Michigan a lot. Honestly, it's not all that amazing. I guess if you're not used to it, it's something interesting. Honestly, though, whitecedar has a more impressive smell, IMO.

Aspen trees in the Scottish midlands are my favourite

>>994425
I have seen Aspens in the western USA, they are nice and look a lot like the birch trees we have here.

>>994121
Botanist can't just let out be.
At least they have the Latin that stays the same.

>>994425
Aspen (at least trembling aspen, Populus tremuloides) forests are great places for collecting mushrooms and other fungi. I was never particularly interested in aspen until I surveyed in NW Territories and saw stands of massive, perfect aspens. They were pretty impressive.

>>992647
Kansas.

Pecan tree cause pecans or black walnit tree cause they will be part of my retirement and wood shop when i retire.

Made a deal with the wife. Getting land soon and building her a house. Gonna put up a cedar, and hedge row to hide the rest of our land from the house. Fucking junk yard back there.

>>992647
rose apple tree

>>992982
Black Birch is the one with Oil of Wintergreen. I go up to the high elevations, prune half of a sapling, and chew it until I feel sick. Makes a good tea.

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>>994078
I was going to say Tamarack, since they only grow in a couple of ancient swamps hidden in remote valleys where I live. Ya beat me to it.

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>>992647
Because Maple Syrup.

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Birch

>>996403
Yellow birch does too.

>>996407
I used to have to clear swamps for helicopter pickup while surveying. I felt bad cutting scrubby-looking tamarack that has paper-thin rings and were like 75 years old at least.

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>>994362
I was going to say madrona too.

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>>994078

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Sydney

>>994078
rare here, central iowa, but the uni has some great specimen pieces

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>>996931
I'm with you on the figgy trees but that's not a very flattering pitcher of one. Also do you know what park that is??

Can /out/ ID this tree for me in New England? It looks like beech but beech trees are the last ones to change color, whereas these are the first trees to change color in autumn. Bright yellow, and they're everywhere so overnight the green forest gets a sudden smattering of yellow everywhere you look. It's kind of exciting, weirdly.

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Black Cherry Tree.

I've always wanted to have a large, 50ft-100ft winding cobblestone driveway leading up to my house with these lined on either side of it.

>>996936
That's a birch, bitch

>>996846
It's funny, the state biologists are assholes, and claim that there are only two places that they grow, but I muself have found three other places. They deny their existance. Then these same brainiacs want to know where I saw the Goshawk, I told them to fuck right off because they did not listen to me about the trees or the porcupines.

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Ash trees. Thanks to the ash borer there's plenty of deadfall around to burn

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Fraser firs, it's a shame they only grow in the highest parts of the Appalachians, and most groves have been heavily damaged

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Jewelweed owns stick the leaf underwater and it fukken shimmers like h*ck

pitangueiras

they're great for making jelly or just eating innawoods, they're basically pests where i live , so it's okay to cut them down, and can make some sick slingshots if you find a nice fork

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I love all conifers, but when it comes down to it, Juniperus Virginiana, or the Eastern Red Cedar, is my favorite. Grows abundantly in the Ozarks. Lovely smell and added bonus of the berries, which make a great tea or just a small snack, and can anecdotally be a coffee substitute (have yet to try). I plan on looking into the possibility of using the needles for tea, but not sure about the safety of that

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I love me some Joshua Trees. Reminds me of home.

>>997219
Ok but it's not a white birch anon. What kind you think it is then? Silver I guess?

>>997563
I never tried it but it is it is supposed to help with poison ivy rashes.

>>999264
What does the trunk look like? It could be yellow, river, silver, or grey birch.

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>>999364
Found another pitcher... idunno anon that bark doesn't look birchen to me.

>>999368
Black birch maybe

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>>999377
Yeah I think you're right, I've been googling. You know what pisses me off now? I was always a little sad that we didn't have any real sugar maples in our woods so I was never able to make syrup. We do, however, have TONS of black birch which has that sweet wintergreeny sap. I just found out now, with my googling, that you can tap dat shit and make a delicious syrup with black birch. And I just moved away and can't do it >:|

>>999380
That's a shame, it's hard to refine sap into syrup though. For maple it takes 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup, for birch it's much worse at a 100:1 ratio. It would not have been easy to tap, harvest, and boil, 100 gallons of birch sap

t. Canadian

>>999402
But you CAN make some birchin kvass from the roots.

http://infohow.net/11715-vkusnye-i-prostye-recepty-kvasa-na-berezovom-soke.html

>>999504
I had kvass in Ukraine once. I did not care much for it.

>>999402
oh, yeah you're right. i would have needed like 7 gallons to make a cup or so of searp, even that would have been really shitty just with a normal pot and stove. especially because apparently birch syrup scorches much easier than maple as well and really shouldn't be boiled on a stove.

oh well, guess i didn't miss out on anything really anyway. thanks for the info friend.

>>999504
idunno about this. maybe i'll give it a go someday...

>tfw friends and family think im strange for identifying tree species every time i go to a new outside area

fucking plebs innit

>>1000140
>friends and family
there's your problem anon

Maclura pomifera

>>996867
This is a blue board, anon