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Yeah this is a weird thread and I'm not high haha. Trees are badass. Nothing beats the vibrant colors maple trees produce in the fall or flowering trees in the spring. But if you had to pick a favorite tree, what would it be and why?
I say European Weeping Beech. My hometown local flower garden has one of these and it's cool as fuck. Big and overhangs like a weeping willow but with more occlusion from outside view. Inside, the overhangs and branches look so cool.
Close second choice would be a Southern Live Oak covered in Spanish Moss.
big tall spruces or pines, aspens in the summer/fall, and those giant deformed trees on top of ridges/peaks that have been brutalized by lifetimes worth of weather
If any of you have ever been to pie in the sky in woods hole Massachusetts there's an amazing copper beach tree across the street from it. Ever since I first climbed that I said to myself I'd do it every year until I couldn't anymore which is gonna be a long time from now.
LonelyJack pine is the most metal tree for sure.
sugar maple sucks
You'd think they're metal needing fire to open their cones, but then you find out that cones low to or on the ground can also open on a hot sunny day when the ground gets really warm and it just kinda ruins it for ya. Still cool that Kirtland's warbler are jack pine specialists though.. so they do have that going for them.
Also false. Sugar maple are awesome. Maple syrup and their incredible wood that both looks really good as well as has good properties that make it ideal for carpentry and other construction purposes (eg. ski making) means sugar maples are definitely one of the superior trees in North America.
VinnieFYou'd think they're metal needing fire to open their cones, but then you find out that cones low to or on the ground can also open on a hot sunny day when the ground gets really warm and it just kinda ruins it for ya. Still cool that Kirtland's warbler are jack pine specialists though.. so they do have that going for them.
Also false. Sugar maple are awesome. Maple syrup and their incredible wood that both looks really good as well as has good properties that make it ideal for carpentry and other construction purposes (eg. ski making) means sugar maples are definitely one of the superior trees in North America.
That's only part of the reason why they are metal. They encourage stand replacing wildfires- a big plus for the local environment. "Dry opens" do happen but are pretty uncommon and are usually a result of dryness rather than regular air temperature. Serotinous cones need high high temps to open. I'm a big fan of Jack pines mostly because they are the easiest stands to cruise or do my research plots in- besides red pine but they are a pretty similar habitat type here. Plus the wildlife that frequents them as well as the ground flora is pretty sick. Lots of sweet fern, reindeer lichen and lowbush blueberry. Plus pure stands look siiiiick. Love me some jackpine. They grow where nothing else wants to.
Sugar maple is an awesome species for industry. I'm just tired of it because it's all I work in. It's a pain in the ass to hack through when you have 50 seedlings per m^2 plots. It's incredibly competitive and shades out most other species. Turning a pretty diverse stand into a maple mono-culture. It's become very boring to me. It only is cool if it has some birds eye. It just destroys anything that is not it. Besides some spinulose WF or maiden hair there is hardly any ground flora. Theres too much of it, just feels like a pest
LonelyThat's only part of the reason why they are metal. They encourage stand replacing wildfires- a big plus for the local environment. "Dry opens" do happen but are pretty uncommon and are usually a result of dryness rather than regular air temperature. Serotinous cones need high high temps to open. I'm a big fan of Jack pines mostly because they are the easiest stands to cruise or do my research plots in- besides red pine but they are a pretty similar habitat type here. Plus the wildlife that frequents them as well as the ground flora is pretty sick. Lots of sweet fern, reindeer lichen and lowbush blueberry. Plus pure stands look siiiiick. Love me some jackpine. They grow where nothing else wants to.
Sugar maple is an awesome species for industry. I'm just tired of it because it's all I work in. It's a pain in the ass to hack through when you have 50 seedlings per m^2 plots. It's incredibly competitive and shades out most other species. Turning a pretty diverse stand into a maple mono-culture. It's become very boring to me. It only is cool if it has some birds eye. It just destroys anything that is not it. Besides some spinulose WF or maiden hair there is hardly any ground flora. Theres too much of it, just feels like a pest
Sound like you know your shit. What sort of research do you do and what part of the continent? Would be very interested to hear. Around here our sugar maple forests are actually quite diverse with ground cover, although pure stands are very uncommon and they're rarely over 50-100 years in age. Typical maple stands here usually have a few lily sp. (like trout lily, blue bead, etc), a few Maianthemum sp., wild sarsaparilla, Trillum sp., ramps, more than a few fern sp., etc etc.
VinnieFSound like you know your shit. What sort of research do you do and what part of the continent? Would be very interested to hear. Around here our sugar maple forests are actually quite diverse with ground cover, although pure stands are very uncommon and they're rarely over 50-100 years in age. Typical maple stands here usually have a few lily sp. (like trout lily, blue bead, etc), a few Maianthemum sp., wild sarsaparilla, Trillum sp., ramps, more than a few fern sp., etc etc.
Super north in Michigan. Stands are never entirely pure, but pure is just referencing more than 80% of a single species. I'm currently doing a 3 month research project in some experimental forest that my university owns. Basically just soil composition and it's effect on stand productivity. An environmental report on an 80 acre plot.
VinnieFSound like you know your shit. What sort of research do you do and what part of the continent? Would be very interested to hear. Around here our sugar maple forests are actually quite diverse with ground cover, although pure stands are very uncommon and they're rarely over 50-100 years in age. Typical maple stands here usually have a few lily sp. (like trout lily, blue bead, etc), a few Maianthemum sp., wild sarsaparilla, Trillum sp., ramps, more than a few fern sp., etc etc.
if you or anyone has questions about trees it's my favorite thing to talk about
FogdartYeah this is a weird thread and I'm not high haha. Trees are badass. Nothing beats the vibrant colors maple trees produce in the fall or flowering trees in the spring. But if you had to pick a favorite tree, what would it be and why?
I say European Weeping Beech. My hometown local flower garden has one of these and it's cool as fuck. Big and overhangs like a weeping willow but with more occlusion from outside view. Inside, the overhangs and branches look so cool.
Close second choice would be a Southern Live Oak covered in Spanish Moss.
