Day Twenty-One ~ Cedar Up-Close

The cedar tree pollen is pretty when you look at it up close. It's hard to believe these orange little pods can make us so sick!

Day Twenty-One ~ Cedar in the Sky

It is cedar fever season which means the cedar trees are laden with pollen and making everyone miserable. I went out this morning to search for the culprit who is making my children so miserably stuffy and itchy. Here is a clump of pollen in a high tree against the beautiful blue sky. Deceptive, isn't it?

Cedar pollens: Port Orford cedar; Atlantic white cedar; Leyland cypress; Alaska yellow cedar; Baker cypress; Cypress macrocarpa; Baker cypress. Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Cottage Grove, Oregon.

Photo by: Richard Sniezko

Date: April 21, 2004

Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center.

Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon.

Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific Northwest Region. Dorena houses disease resistance breeding programs for five-needled pines and Port-Orford-cedar, a native plant development program, and the National Tree Climbing Program. For additional photos of the DGRC program, see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanageme...

Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth

Day Twenty-One ~ Cedar in the Trees

There is so much cedar pollen surrounding us, all around in our neighborhood. Good thing is that we don't have any cedar trees on our property.

Cedar pollen on the water is a common sight in the spring and early summer, Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada.

golden glow of male mountain junipers in full bloom now spreading pollen that gives about a third of the population here runny noses, including me

these trees are commonly called "cedar" trees locally but are actually mountain junipers

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