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TOPIC: spring foliage
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/204ce4e048947670?hl=en
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Date: Wed, May 7 2008 5:04 am
From: ForestRuss@aol.com


ENTS:

Here are two different photos taken at Crummies Creek in central WV from the
same place one week apart. Aside from some occasional sneezing from the
pollen I enjoy the spring foliage season in WV nearly as much as fall.

Spring tree flowers. On the right is a sugar maple flowering, on the left is redbud
and the trees in the lower center of the photos are some scattered sugar maple. The
reddish trees are red maple flowers and the brilliant green in the upper right center of
the photo is a yellow poplar cove.

The same spot one week later. The sugar maple leaves have started to open and the
redbud has faded. At the bottom of the photo the red oak leaves are opening. Nearly
all the trees that appear to be white are white oak trees in flower. On the ridge directly
behind the expiring redbud flowers the yellow green forest is nearly 100% chestnut oak in flower. In this
photo nearly all the trees with a reddish tinge are red or scarlet oak and trees with a yellow-brown
color are beech trees in flower. Outside the poplar cove you can almost count the yellow poplar trees.

In this photo the poplar is bright green, the flowering chestnut oaks are yellow green
and all the trees with a white tinge are white oak. In the bottom left of this photo
the trees are scarlet and red oak. On the lower right quadrant of the photo above the
08 in the date there is a large topped sugar maple tree with a bright green top and the
yellow brown tree with a top of about the same size as the sugar maple is a big beech
tree in flower.

Russ

Russ Richardson photo:

Redbud