What tree are these seeds from? (Pic)
young codger
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I have been trying to identify these tree seeds from my tree app.
Thus far, the app has only been able to narrow it down to seven possibilities. They are as follows:
Birch-downy
Birch-Silver
Elm English
Elm Huntington
Elm Smooth leaved
Elm wych
Elm Hornbeam
I can take a photo of the bark on my next visit to the area.
Thank you.
Thus far, the app has only been able to narrow it down to seven possibilities. They are as follows:
Birch-downy
Birch-Silver
Elm English
Elm Huntington
Elm Smooth leaved
Elm wych
Elm Hornbeam
I can take a photo of the bark on my next visit to the area.
Thank you.
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You are very fast Dove.✋
Inversnaid
Gerard Manley Hopkins
This darksome burn, horseback brown,
His rollrock highroad roaring down,
In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam
Flutes and low to the lake falls home.
A windpuff-bonnet of fáwn-fróth
Turns and twindles over the broth
Of a pool so pitchblack, féll-frówning,
It rounds and rounds Despair to drowning.
Degged with dew, dappled with dew
Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through,
Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern,
And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.
What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
As for vitality or fecundity of the seeds - a huge proportion will fail to germinate.
On the evolutionary aspects, the first thing that must be born in mind is that no plant has ever had the chance to sit down in development planning meeting! Every facet of its appearance, growth and reproduction is the result of gradual mutations of its DNA and every lifeform is rather stuck with its ancestoral heritage. If plants (or anything biological) had a completely freehand - it could and probably would come up with radical changes the likes of sticking jet engines on aircraft instead of the whirly things as my wife calls them. Some plants put all their energy into very few seeds, say like cocconuts whereas others make millions and it's rather mystifying why examples of both types often occur in the same families.
Another thing worth considering in the case of trees is the fact that while their genes might seem want to perpetuate themselves (to us ) - the parent doesn't want their children too close. Hence the propeller action of ash keys and sycamore helicopters, whereas many other trees have symbiotic relations with animals such as squirrels and jays burying acorns.
Though plants can be described as weedy ( Monty's tomatoes come to mind) No plant is intrinsically "a weed" even couch grass and stinging nettles are just wild species, we must not allow ourselves to be swayed because they're a nuisance.