The Ohio Buckeye is a distinctively Midwestern tree, so much so that “buckeye” became a kind of metonym for the region and the early Anglo-American settlers thereof. The name “buckeye” itself needs explanation. The most commonly given one is that the shiny brown fruits resemble the eyes of a buck. The Ohio Buckeye belongs toContinue reading “The Ohio Buckeye”
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Meet the Pin Oak
As it naturally occurs, the Pin Oak is a bottomlands tree. It grows on poorly drained, high-clay content soils, with dormant season flooding. The latin epithet palustris in Quercus palustris means something like “of swampy areas,” and it can be readily identified in the wild on the basis of its habitat. Other red oaks, likeContinue reading “Meet the Pin Oak”
Confusion with “Sycamores”
If you look for “how to identify a sycamore tree” on wikiHow you’ll come across one of those innumerable American English / British English differences constantly under our noses and yet so rarely noticed. To identify a sycamore we are told, we should first check for “small woody balls,” like so and then, as ifContinue reading “Confusion with “Sycamores””
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