DAP
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I've traded in THE urban center for country and outdoor life almost 6 years ago.
I take a particular fascination with trees. BUT ...
They VARY so much even within the same species that identifying them is one helluva challenge. Lots of people think they know these things .. but when I cross check the identifications, they fall apart.
Most difficult are the naming conventions as they change for the same tree from region to region.
Here's the best example of late .. .up here in the old and fair state of Maine, you hear the long timers talk about Popple or Poppal trees. Turns out, and this wasn't easy to deduce, they Popple trees (generally unwanted except to look at) are also know as "Quaking Aspen", a term I'm much more familar with.
So .. if anyone can demystify "Russian Olive" for me, hopefully with lots of photos, I'd appreciate it. I'm talkin the kind of Russian Olive you find in the southern tier of New York state.
What a challenge ...
I take a particular fascination with trees. BUT ...
They VARY so much even within the same species that identifying them is one helluva challenge. Lots of people think they know these things .. but when I cross check the identifications, they fall apart.
Most difficult are the naming conventions as they change for the same tree from region to region.
Here's the best example of late .. .up here in the old and fair state of Maine, you hear the long timers talk about Popple or Poppal trees. Turns out, and this wasn't easy to deduce, they Popple trees (generally unwanted except to look at) are also know as "Quaking Aspen", a term I'm much more familar with.
So .. if anyone can demystify "Russian Olive" for me, hopefully with lots of photos, I'd appreciate it. I'm talkin the kind of Russian Olive you find in the southern tier of New York state.
What a challenge ...