Forest plants: Identification

These pictures and their accompanying text are taken from a beautiful old book on tree identification written by R. ST. Barbe Baker, the self-styled founder of the wonderfully-named The Men of the Trees, an organisation I know nothing about, but wish I had belonged to. The book came out in the 1940s, so all of it is now copyright free. I post this material for those of you who are of a Crafty persuasion (you know who you are;) and anyone else who is interested and would find the information…

How helpful of Discover the Wild to produce a quick guide to tree buds. A perfect handy guide for Spring walks. They say this about their guide, …. here is a quick guide to some of the commo…

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(Illustrations- Dorothea and Sy Barlowe, 1952)

This print of a watercolor paper features Pine Cones of North America as a field guide classification chart. It includes these pine cones: Bristlecone Eastern White Jack Limber Loblolly Lodgepole Longleaf Pitch Pinyon Ponderosa Red Scotch Shortleaf Slash Sugar This piece matches my Acorns Field Guide: https://www.etsy.com/listing/101539356/acorns-field-guide-chart-watercolor-art This is a signed piece, sized 8.5"x11" inches and printed on 68lb. UltraPro Satin paper from Red River Paper…

As the tree grows it starts the appearance of rings inside the trunk. Counting the rings of a tree gives a fairly accurate measure of a tree’s age. The growth rings show how the weather has changed and affected the tree’s quality of life over the years. The wider the rings the more growth of the tree and the closer it is to ideal weather conditions. The narrow the rings will indicate less growth due to cold weather or drought conditions. The oldest layer of growth is in the center; the…

monotropa; indian pipe; ghost plant. found in rich woody areas.

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Have you ever given much consideration to the various pine trees around you? My children and I have been slowly identifying the deciduous trees in our neighborhood and can now identify a few during the winter by the buds that develop in late summer. But it wasn’t until recently that we set on a quest …

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It’s easy to go through life with what our third-grade teacher taught us about trees. What we ‘half remember’ is enough for us to happily relegate trees to

Identification of Maple tree for tapping