Tree Huggers

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/594125

Undamaged due to south facing and steep.

https://postimg.cc/MvBxv0Yb

https://postimg.cc/mhtTGWzn

42m high.

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/news@lemmy.world/t/237636

UPDATED: Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia tweeted Friday that StreetsLA would be fining Universal Studios $250 for trimming trees without a city permit. He also said that “outdated l…

Beautiful photo of an endangered island oak, Quercus tomentella, courtesy of marivillasol on iNaturalist.

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/576155

Even though cows are running through it, it still looks decent from afar.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/498759

A subtropical hemiepiphyte Ficus rubiginosa in a cleared paddock.

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/220850

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/118354

"Most of the giant trees of Gippsland were ringbarked and the land was burnt, several times to deal with regrowth, to clear the land for farming, one of the Strezlecki "Big Scrub" fires raining ashes on New Zealand. The timber was never used as it was too far from any markets and the enormous grey skeletons were a feature of the landscape well into the 20th century. This particular tree, after being ringbarked by a man with an axe and it and it's forest companions burnt by a man with a match, is long dead by the time these fellows posed with the carcase"

https://esoteric-inkworks.tripod.com/friendsofthetrestlebridge/id4.html

https://brianwaltersmelbourne.blogspot.com/2010/07/tall-trees.html

Larger Resolution (but watermarked): https://www.alamy.com/negative-balook-victoria-circa-1895-the-men-of-the-cook-family-ringbarking-a-tree-the-tree-was-107-feet-in-circumference-10-feet-from-the-ground-image328795166.html

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/494806

https://postimg.cc/cKcQtHWM for full resolution.

Just taken with a mobile phone, a Pixel 6a running GrapheneOS and OpenCamera. Blasted the exposure so I could see all the branches.

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/563488

Here's some pics of "cryptogeal" germination in a Bunya Pine seed.

The seed sits on top of soil and sends down a tube that forms a lower tuber that is protected from predation and waits for conditions to suit (though sometimes they do whatever they want). Someone growing a Bunya Pine in a nursery would do it in 2 stages, the initial germination with the seed sitting on a media, then digging up the tubers before they start growing and resetting them higher in individual pots.

This tuber, like the seed, is also edible.

Further reading about Bunya Pines in general and how it relates to First Nations' people:

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-412554926/view

Some further reading on cryptogeal germination:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00468-016-1461-y

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/297191

We've known for a long time that trees can keep the built environment cooler, but with heat waves and deaths spiking worldwide, it has become an urgent need in many areas.

Defining and measuring these things can be tricky, so there can be debate about the various titleholders. Still, this is a good overview of some of the more famous examples.

Hello everyone,

Like many people, I migrated from Reddit to Lemmy recently following the API fiasco. While I am generally loving the communities on here, one of my favorites, /r/marijuanaenthusiasts hasn't made the jump. So I decided to start a similar community here. While I thought about preserving the name, I always found the constant drip of confused users a little frustrating. Because Lemmy is a new site, and because it allows multiple communities to have the same name, I decided to go with something a little more clear to those not familiar with the history of Reddit.

That said, this community will cover largely the same topics as the subreddit does, including tree appreciation, care, identification, science, news, and really anything else tree or forest related you can think of. Because of my own interests and the instance we're on, I'd like to encourage a bit more of an advocacy and activism theme as well. Not just trees as they are today, but how they can be used as a tool to make the world a better place.

This is my first time starting a community, and I have limited moderating experience, so please be patient with me. If this community takes off, I probably will need to recruit more moderators, but we can cross that bridge when we come to it.

Welcome everyone, and I'm looking forward to seeing what people contribute!

Photo courtesy of Thomas Bresson, under CC BY 4.0.