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perswig
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May 22, 2014 - 06:45am PT
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Cool wood, folks. Biotch, your mutant Ponderosa up top is excellent, a little spooky.
Dale
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - May 22, 2014 - 10:30am PT
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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May 22, 2014 - 02:28pm PT
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walt
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Kirkwood, CA
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May 23, 2014 - 12:49am PT
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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May 23, 2014 - 12:30pm PT
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perswig
climber
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May 25, 2014 - 03:53pm PT
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Little help with tree ID, if you don't mind.
This showed up in a neglected topsoil pile w/in the past year; I'd like to transplant it somewhere appropriate. Thought an elm of some sort, but the bark looks too smooth. Sumac? Ornamental? Dunno.
TIA.
Dale
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sempervirens
climber
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May 26, 2014 - 11:22pm PT
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perswig, cherry. There are many different kinds of cherry of course. I'm guessing that one is a cultivar, and probably produces an edible fruit. Be sure to makes sure before eating though, there are toxic cherries too.
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survival
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Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - May 27, 2014 - 01:58pm PT
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Good stuff DMT!!!
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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May 27, 2014 - 02:32pm PT
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Scott Patterson
Mountain climber
Craig
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May 27, 2014 - 02:49pm PT
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A very, very, old tree (around 201,000,000 to 235,000,000 years old):
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survival
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Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - May 27, 2014 - 02:55pm PT
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Very cool.
How does one know it's 280 million years old? Curious, because I couldn't find anything.
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Scott Patterson
Mountain climber
Craig
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May 27, 2014 - 03:12pm PT
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How does one know it's 280 million years old? Curious, because I couldn't find anything.
My mistake. I looked it up and it's actually 201-235 million years old. It is in the Chinle Formation, which is from the Late Triassic (Late Triassic is 201-235 million years old).
http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/coloradoplateau/lexicon/chinle.htm
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perswig
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May 28, 2014 - 06:24am PT
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Ah, thanks much, sempervirens!
Oddly enough, the algorithm I followed for leaf ID took me to cherry, but I discounted that as unlikely as none seem to be nearby.
Gift from the wind, I guess.
Thanks again.
Dale
edit: SV, I used this, expecting little, and was pleasantly surprised. (Pretty sure I've got a cool old hand-drawn taxonomy guide somewhere as well, but I couldn't lay my hands on it when I needed it.)
http://forestry.about.com/od/treeidentification/tp/tree_key_id_start.htm
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sempervirens
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May 28, 2014 - 08:22pm PT
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Perswig,
I'm not familiar with any algorithm for identifying leaves or plants. Is there a link you could send describing it? Thanks.
Maybe the cherry tree was a gift from a bird. And Elm leaves are pretty similar.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
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May 28, 2014 - 09:25pm PT
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Susan
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sempervirens
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May 29, 2014 - 08:31pm PT
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Hi Timid,
Lake Davis? I mean, reservoir Davis?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 14, 2014 - 08:02am PT
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"Just TRY to have a private talk around here! Nawmean?"
"I knoooow!"
"That picture of the dead 'un just slew me."
"I knoooow!"
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survival
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Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2014 - 10:04am PT
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It's hard to convey the true majesty of Sierra old growth Juniper.
But you gotta try!!!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 16, 2014 - 10:32am PT
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You'd be nuts to try.Is it possible to relay the trad grandeur of a trade route?Not this time.
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