Another well spent day at the nearby park, photographing some plants I haven't before. I'd like the first four pics ID'd, the other I thought was interesting how a pine makes a new branch. The first two pics are of the same shrub, I've never seen a shrub like that be a gymnosperm (it's a long bush sorta thing, not dense with leaves, deciduous , woody, 2.5m tall, same for width). Third pic is some kind of red branchy bush, fourth is growing buds from an unknown tree. Thanks as usual.
Numbers one and two perhaps larch (Larix spp) or tamarack (Larix laricina) which are native deciduous gymnospermic trees/shrubs? The cones look awful familiar... Very cool, whatever they are. Number three looks like dogwood (Cornus spp) Were there white berries on the bush? Number four looks like poplar (Populus spp) buds, just judging from the stick.
One and Two look like Birch "cones" Betula Sp. to me. http://www.yankeescents.com/ing_birchcones.htm HTH Chris
1.& 2 Are Alnus. If it were in the UK I'd say Alnus glutinosa. Common Alder. Good pics. No 1 shows the male catkins and female flowers on the tip of the twig. No 2 shows the old "cones"
The florescent chem. in Aesculus hippocastanum seems really interesting, I'll try to get a piece of wood when I go back, and test it.
Agree with Alnus for #1-2 and Aesculus hippocastanum for #4. #5 - epicormic shoot on Pinus rigida. One of only a very few pines that will do this.
I would guess that #1 and 2 are of Alnus viridis = Alnus crispa rather than of A.incana. Agree about IDs for other pictures.
Nope, not Alnus viridis, that has catkins that open with or after the leaves, not before. The seed structures ("cones") are also too stout for A. viridis.
