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Taken on my spring hike through the Butler Preserve Conservation Trust
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These apples are still on the tree. We spent Saturday driving backroads to the orchards in Gay Mills. We had to alter our normal route do to a washed out gravel road with a tree across it. The orchards are up on the ridge top, so are free from flood damage. I'm not sure how it affected this year's crops, though.
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Une version un peu différente (pdv et traitement) d'une résidence un peu particulière juste à côté du Parc Saint Pierre à amiens
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I instantly fell in love with this tree...the minute I laid eyes on it, I knew there was art in there...I had to do something more with it than just show it's beauty, as in the picture below!
I mirrored it and then joined it to create this fairytale image...
I have many more to come and I have been thinking of putting them in a slide show (if I can find the time), like last time so that I don't bore you with a thousand photos of trees...artistic though this tree is!
I hope you can appreciate this tree as much as I do!
Happy Wednesday everyone!
With love
Nat :)
Our guide in the rainforest pointed out this tree which has an interesting history.
Idiospermum is a genus containing a single species of tree, Idiospermum australiense, found in Australian tropical rainforests. Scientists recognise them as one of the species of the earliest known lineages to have branched out from the first flowering plants and still living today. Since as long ago as 120 million years, they continue living today only in the Daintree and Wet Tropics rainforests region of north-eastern Queensland.
The first European–Australians to recognise the trees were timber cutters south of Cairns in the late 1800s, then it was thought to have become extinct. The Ribbonwood was then brought to the attention of the German botanist Ludwig Diels, who in 1902 described the species in the genus Calycanthus as C. australiense, a remarkable disjunction for this otherwise North American genus. It was later believed to be extinct again, because when Diels finally returned to the location where this tree was found, the natural vegetation had been destroyed for a sugar cane farm.
The species was re-rediscovered in 1971, after the poisonous seeds of the plant were found in the stomachs of dying cattle in the region. This type of tree is so old that it is believed the seeds were originally meant to be dispersed by dinosaurs eating them but their poisonous nature now means they are only dispersed by gravi.y
~n. hawthorne
more from the walk i took last weekend...a runner passing by mentioned a horse farm up the road and so of course i couldn't resist. this is that farm.
There are few iconic images that beat the quiver tree or kokerboom, Aloe dichotoma, its stylised shape giving it a prehistoric appearance, especially when etched against the deep colours of a Namibian sunset.
Situated on the farm Gariganus, 23 kilometres north-east of Keetmanshoop, the Quiver Tree Forest is a worthwhile detour, especially for keen photographers. Here several hundred of these curious trees can be seen growing as a dense stand amongst the rocky outcrops that are so characteristic of the southern parts of Namibia. The stand was declared a national monument and fenced for tourist viewing some fifty years ago.
Reaching heights of up to seven metres, the quiver tree is one of four Namibian aloes that are classified as trees. One of these, the bastard quiver tree, Aloe pillansii, is sometimes confused with the kokerboom, the difference being that A. pillansii has a taller trunk with fewer, more erect branches and a sparse crown, and has a much more limited distribution, being confined to the areas just north and south of the Orange River. The quiver tree, on the other hand, grows fairly commonly along Namibia’s western escarpment from the Orange River northwards into Kaokoland.
In June and July quiver trees are covered in bright yellow flowers, attracting large numbers of birds and insects to their copious nectar. Baboons tear the flowers apart to get at the sweet substance, often stripping a tree of its blossoms soon after they have appeared. One of the quiver tree’s most attractive features is its bark, which is smooth, often with a pearly grey or golden sheen, sometimes flaking and cracked into diamond shapes, frequently folding like melting wax.
The Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, Simon van der Stel, recorded this fascinating and distinctive tree in 1685 where it grew in the northern Cape. He noticed that Bushmen fashioned quivers for their arrows from the soft branches, and it was this custom that gave rise to the tree’s common name.
www.namibiatravelcompanion.com/index.php/quiver-tree-forest/
— in Namibia.
Will you float or will you sink?
Will you descend and greedily drink?
The waters that flow all around
What treasures below will be found
When you descend and do drink
The waters as you slowly sink
Research had to wait these days/weeks, because the Tree is running out of nutrients, as well as the InterWebs. I need to provide the PhD nutrition.
This Tree is 500 years old and I believe that Churchill walked this path with his beloved Clementine Holzier.
A very Merry Christmas to everyone and Happy Holidays!