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TOPIC: Butternut
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/cd1288a0341af374?hl=en
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Date: Thurs, Mar 20 2008 8:11 pm
From: "Edward Frank"
ENTS,
While visiting the Allegheny River Islands Wilderness, PA last fall
Dale, Anthony and I encountered a number of butternuts. One of them
was really old in appearance. What was strange to me was that in the
mid 1980's one island had been struck by a tornado which wiped out
trees across much of the lower end of the island. The trees have
been replaced by grasses and not much else. An exception are clumps
of butternut. that It looks as if the original trees were broken off
at the ground, or low to a few feet, and that these clumps have
resprouted from the broken butternut. I don't know much about the
species, but is it common for it to resprout from broken off trunks?
They actually formed the majority of the trees present among the
grass. There were also some dead Sumac, that died for no apparent
reason, Not much else was growing in these areas.
Ed Frank
I'll be out eradicating some privet and planting butternut
tomorrow
and in Ohio over the weekend (anybody know any good places near West
Liberty to see some Trillium nivale?). I'm looking forward to
reading
the accumulation of interesting posts when I return.
Take Care,
Josh
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TOPIC: Butternut
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/cd1288a0341af374?hl=en
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Date: Fri, Mar 21 2008 4:57 am
From: ForestRuss@aol.com
Ed:
The grass you refer to sounds like Japanese stiltgrass, Microstegium
vimineum a lethal invasive annual plant that is wrecking thousands
of miles of
stream corridors.
We have a fair amount of butternut in central WV and it is commonly
found
where there has been destruction of the forest by outside influences
(beyond
timber cutting). I have seen it several times growing like you
mentioned where
tipped up stumps and knocked over trees heavily sprout from the
stump and
root collar.
A new fact sheet on Microstegium became available yesterday and a
link to it
is:
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/mivi1.htm
or
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/whatnew.htm
Russ
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