by Susan Dean | Feb 6, 2018 | Plants, Trees
WE LOVE TREES!
Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It’s like you’re touching the essence, the very substance of life. – Kim Novak
Research a favorite tree or give students clues and let them go on a scavenger hunt. Some things to include might be:
Scientific and other common names of the tree:
Habitat and Environment
Kind of seed
Flowers, fruit, or cones?
Estimated height
Circumference (measured 4 feet above the ground )
Above ground roots?
What is the soil like?
The color, texture and strength of the bark
Does the tree shed it’s bark?
Leaves or needles?
Shape, color, texture, size, strength, vein pattern of leaf or needle.
How many other trees like this are around.
Any animals in, on, or around the tree?
How much sunshine does it get?
Other interesting knowledge about this tree
EVERYTHING DANCES!
by Susan Dean | Feb 6, 2018 | Plants, Trees
Don’t you dare climb that tree
or even try, they said, or you will be
sent away to the hospital of the
very foolish, if not the other one.
And I suppose, considering my age,
it was fair advice.
But the tree is a sister to me,
she lives alone in a green cottage
high in the air and I know what would
happen, she’d clap her green hands,
she’d shake her green hair,
she’d welcome me. Truly
I try to be good but sometimes
a person just has to break out and
act like the wild and springy thing
one used to be. It’s impossible not
to remember wild and want it back. So
if someday you can’t find me you might
look into that tree or – of course
it’s possible – under it.
Mary Oliver
The Pink Peach Tree Van Gogh
Peach Trees in Blossom Van Gogh
Apple Tree in Blossom Van Gogh
Apple Trees on Chantemesie Hill Claude Monet
Tree of Life Gustav Klint
Palms John Singer Sargent
Sunlight Effect Under the Poplars Claude Monet
Four Trees Egon Schlele
The Olive Grove John Singer Sargent
The Poplars Claude Monet
Avenue with Flowering Chestnut Trees Vincent Van Gogh
Trunks in the Grass Vincent Van Gogh
The Pink Orchard Vincent Van Gogh
FLOWERING PLUM TREE CAMILLE PISSARRO
PLUMS BLOSSOM CLAUDE MONET
Orchard in Bloom Claude Monet
The Olive Grove Vincent Van Gogh
Branches With Almond Blossom Van Gogh
Orchard in Blossom Vincent Van Gogh
Pine Trees Against a Red Sky With Setting Sun
The Olive Grove William Merritt Chase
Beech Trees Steele
Olive Trees Van Gogh
The Tree House Klee
Walking Next To The River Fernando Botero
Willow Tree
Apple Tree With Red Fruit Paul-ElieRanson
Blossoming Pear Tree Van Gogh
Apple Trees in Bloom at Giverny Monet
In the Woods Cezanne
Mulberry Tree Van Gogh
Cypresses Van Gogh
Red Tree Mondrian
Birch Forest Klimt
Beech Forest Klimt
Apple Tree Mondrian
Apple Tree Gustav Klimt
Joy of Life Matisse
A Palm Tree Monet
Apricot Trees In Blossom Van Gogh
by Susan Dean | Feb 6, 2018 | Plants, Trees
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Tree shown on the new Vermont 25¢ coin: Maple
The Dutch disease nearly wiped out this tree: Elm
The Christmas partridge was in this tree: Pear
Spanish moss hangs from this southern tree: Live Oak
Largest tree species by volume: Sequoia
Noah’s dove brought back this branch: Olive
Tree associated with Lebanon: Cedar
Berries from this tree used to make gin: Juniper
The tree with knobby knees: Baldcypress
What little acorns grow into: Oak
Texas state tree: Pecan
John Chapman’s claim to fame: Apple
It is to the south what the lilac is to the north: Crapemyrtle
President Andrew Jackson’s nickname: Hickory
Tree Robert Frost talks about in his poem: Birch
Most common U. S. Tree: Silver Maple
Tropical island tree: Palm
The village smithy worked under this tree: Chestnut
Tree most struck by lightning: Oak
Everlasting life is the symbol of this tree: Yew
The tree with bark like elephant skin. Beech
Favorite tree lovers carve their initials in: Beech
World’s tallest species of tree: Redwood
Oldest living tree (4844 years): Bristlecone Pine
Tree associated with Burmese rain forests: Teak
Mississippi’s state tree: Magnolia
Before barb wire, it was called the “living fence”: Osage Orange
In England this tree is called a sycamore: Maple
The “Lord of the Forest” in New Zealand. Tane Mahuta
The state tree of South Carolina. Palmetto
Men collect tears of sap from this tree often used as incense. Frankinsence
We use the beans from this tree to make chocolate. Cacoa
This tree has the largest seed of all. Coconut
This tree blooms in spring and has markings of the crucifixion on the flower. Dogwood
Long ago people used knots from this tree for light. Pine
This tree is a lunar tree that sheds it’s bark to white limbs. Plane tree or Sycamore
We get delicious syrup for our pancakes from this tree. Sugar Maple
The flower is sweet but the fruit is sour. Lemon
What is the smallest living tree? The dropsickle tree
by Susan Dean | Feb 5, 2018 | Plants, Trees
Old Methusela, a bristlecone pine tree
Wolf Lichen on a tree
Tree of Life
El Arbor del Tule
The Tree with the Largest Diameter in the World:
El Arbol del Tule – This tree is an Ahuehuete or Montezuma Cypress growing in Oaxaca, Mexico in the town of Santa Maria del Tule. The trunk of the tree is 33 feet in diameter and has a circumference of 178 feet. Originally thought to be multiple trees that had grown and fused together, DNA tests have shown that it is actually all one tree.
Strawberry Tree (Arbutus ‘Marina’) on Hermann Street near Duboce Park shows off its flowers.
Rainbow Eucalyptus trees on Maui, Hawaii. The phenomenon is caused by patches of bark peeling off at various times and the colors are indicators of age. A newly shed outer bark reveals bright greens which darken over time into blues and purples and then orange and red tones.
Brazilian Grape Tree known as Jabuticaba does not use branches to grow fruits. It grows fruits (and flowers) directly on the trunk.
American Elm Central Park
The Angel Oak
WISTERIA TREE JAPAN
Olive Tree
Jomon Sugi
Llangernyw
The Majestic Oak
General Sherman
The Senator
The President
Monkey Puzzle Tree
Patriarcada floresta
King Oak Tullamore, Ireland
National Park Tasmania
Kapok Tree Mexico
Root Cave Big Sur
The Knarled Tree
Birch Eyes
The Crooked Forest 
Square Trees
Pine Tree with 6 legs
Japanese Maple Oregon 
Dragon Tree
125 year old Rododendro
Underwater Mangrove Trees
Canada’s most knarled tree
Alerce
Petrified Trees
Banyan Tree
The World’s largest Cashew Tree
Maior Cajueiro do Mondo is located in Natal, Brazil. The gigantic tree has grown from an amalgamation of two genetic tissues. Such tissues allow the branches of the tree to grow outwards rather than upwards. Gradually, hence, the branches tend to stoop towards the ground and eventually make for a root. This new root further grows into a new tree.
The massive tree occupies 80,000 square feet of land or roughly five acres. It is guessed to be around thousand years old. One can easily climb a tower to view this tree from a vantage point or for that matter, even climb up through the roots.
You can heartily go and pay a visit to this enormous work of nature. However, beware of the orange caterpillars. These gorgeous looking insects are poisonous. They swamp over the tree seasonally and are a size of a finger.
The beauty of this tree is that it produces 60,000 pieces of cashew fruit each year. As for some people it may come as a surprise that a cashew nut is not the fruit but a single nut is attached only to the bottom of the fruit!
Maior cajueiro mundo
Cajueiro mundo
Baobab tree
Sagole Baobab S. Africa
Frankincense Tree
Spider Web Cacooned Trees
Dropsickle Tree
Underwater Forest
Dragon Trees
Angel Oak
Octopus Trees
Giant Sequoia
Bottle Tree
Fan Palm
Umbrella Tree
Chandelier Tree
BIg Kauri Tree
Tree- Tenere
Bamboo Forest
Tree Grass
Sausage Tree
Sarv Abarqu
The tree that owns itself!
by Susan Dean | Feb 5, 2018 | Plants, Trees
Trees come in various shapes and sizes but all have the same basic structure. They have a central column called the trunk. The bark-covered trunk supports a framework of branches and twigs called the crown. Branches in turn bear the leaves.
A tree is anchored in the ground by a network of roots, which spread and grow thicker in proportion to the growth of the tree above the ground. The growth of new tissue takes place by the division of specialized cells located at the tips of branches and roots and in a thin layer just inside the bark.
Trees have reproductive structures; either flowers or cones. Leaves, bark, twigs and fruit can make quick work of tree identification. Shape plays a key role in tree species characteristics.
Leaves are the food factories of the tree. Powered by sunlight, the green substance chlorophyll uses carbon dioxide and water to produce life-sustaining carbohydrates. The process is called photosynthesis. Leaves are also responsible for respiration and transpiration. A tree’s leaf is one major marker that helps in identifying any species of tree. Most trees can be identified by the leaf alone.
Leaves come in many shapes and sizes. The “star” shape of sweetgum is totally different from the heart-shaped leaf of an eastern redbud.
A mature tree grows another important structure – the flower (or cone, in the case of evergreens). These are the reproductive structures from which seeds are produced. These seed pods, cones, flowers and fruit are markers that help in identifying a specific species of tree.
Twigs can be used to identify a tree. Twigs have structures called buds, leaf scars and bundle scars that can be different on different species. Thorns and spines can occur on twigs and are unique to certain trees.
The bark rids the tree of wastes by absorbing and locking them into its dead cells and resins. Also, the bark’s phloem transports large quantities of nutrients throughout the tree.
Xylem carries water and minerals from the roots to the leaves. Phloem carries manufactured food (sugars) from the leaves to the roots. The cambium is the generative layer, giving rise to both xylem and phloem. Bark textures are divided into at least 18 types, from smooth (beech) to spiny (locust).
by Susan Dean | Feb 5, 2018 | Plants, Trees
