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TREE CAMPERS SHARE TREE QUESTIONS AND AND DISCOVERIES ...
This page is for your questions about trees that you are finding in your backyard, neighborhood, local natural areas or even from travel to exotic places. I invite you to send me your questions and photos and I'll try to answer them and post the exchange on this page.
Or perhaps you would like to share with other tree campers an unusual or beautiful tree you have found. In all submissions, be sure to mention the following details: 1- tree location 2 - type of habitat 3 - date of photo. Please send to: riverdave1@aol.com
5/8/10 From Riverdave - I photographed this deer through a screened window as it chewed the seed pods of a redbud tree next to my log cabin by the Eno RIver. Look at that tongue!
I also add these leguminous pods to my fresh salads in late April and early May when the pods are tender and sweet. By mid May they become too woody to eat.
3/17/10 From Janet - I photographed this prickly leafed tree along the upland side of the loop trail on the north bank of the Eno River east of Cole Mile Road in North Durham. Can't figure it out.
Riverdave - That's an Asian invasive known as Leatherleaf Mahonia (Mahonia bealei). It prefers bottomland forest habitat. It flowers in the winter.
3/13/10 From Riverdave - Here's a particularly beautiful stand of one hundred foot tall Royal Palms (Roystonea regia) at the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park in the Florida Everglades. These native florida palms are often planted ornamentally, but this group I photographed is the largest wild stand left of this tree on the planet.
I discovered these palms in a swamp forest along with cabbage palm, bald cypress, red maple, live oak and several species of West Indian hardwoods. Red shouldered hawks were numerous above and alligators below. It is a remarkable forest of mixed tropical and temperate species.
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