Poll: Favorite tree

[Liberal Veteran]

What's your favorite type of tree?

[Brucey]

1. Why of course,

The Larch.

[pnorman]

8. If I were a card-carrying Christian,

I'd probably go for a Christmas Tree. But I'm NOT, so I'll settle for a Money Tree.

[noonwitch]

18. X-mas trees are pagan in orgin

From the old Yule celebrations and such. My late aunt got born again and at one point was not going to have a tree because it was pagan. She decided to cover the tree with religious decorations and thus christianize it.

I loved my aunt, but she was a little crazy.

[Zero Gravitas]

35. And now

No 1
The Larch. The Larch.

[liberalnurse]

2. The Weeping Willow....

A magnificent beauty, usually in pairs by water sources.

[CO Liberal]

3. We Had a Weeping Willow In Our Front Yard

When I was growing up. It was next to a brook that ran through our front yard. A bunch of muskrats made their home under that tree, and their burrows weakened the roots to the point that my father had to chop it down.

The yard never looked the same after that.......

[liberalnurse]

5. Oh, how sad.....

I bet it was like loosing a friend.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

19. I forgot our BIRCHES!

Damn, as a New Englander, I should never have overlooked the birch. It's like the North American version of bamboo. A grove of birches can be sublime IMHO. And then there are the glorious giants cultivated in front of many grand old houses. We lost ours to the great ice storm of '78. :-(

[Drifter]

17. We had 2 huge Willows in ...

our yard when growing up. Great climbing trees. It is amazing that I didn't kill myself.

It can be a chore to keep them reasonably groomed, but well worth it.

Unfortunately they are now gone.

Cheers
Drifter

[rbnyc]

46. I agree.

And I loved to swing on them back when I weighed about 16 pounds. :)

[Liberal Veteran]

4. Crap....I forgot the Truffula tree....

10 points to anyone who gets that reference.

[pnorman]

11. It seems to be a creation of Doctor Suess.

(That was the best I could coax out of Google).

This is a nice thread. My apologies for trivilializing it with my earlier posting.

[Liberal Veteran]

13. Try looking up The Lorax

Thneed is a thing that everyone needs.....

[MrBenchley]

6. Number 1 ... The Larch

The Larch.

[MercutioATC]

7. Northern Caltapa...I have one in my front yard.

Gteat structure and beautiful blossoms in the spring.

[Vitruvius]

9. Apple tree -- or any fruit tree.

They're useful.

[BurtWorm]

10. The elm is a beautiful tree

I'm going to miss them when they're all gone.

[trotsky]

24. 2nd on the elm

Just a beautiful shape, perfect shade tree, makes streets and boulevards look inviting.

Blast that Dutch Elm Disease anyway...

[ArkDem]

12. Dogwood

[NewYorkerfromMass]

14. Copper Beech

Hard not to like their glorious canopies, many limbs, and nice smooth gray bark

[arwalden]

15. Christmas!!!!! (Winter Solstice Tree)

[MissMillie]

16. I am the Lorax....

... I speak for the trees.

[WoodrowFan]

20. The Larch

(switches slide) The Larch.

[AnnabelLee]

21. Darn it!

You beat me to it. :D

[NewYorkerfromMass]

32. See post #6

looks like both of you got beat! :)

[Zero Gravitas]

40. No. 1

Post number 1 (how appropriate) has all of beat!

And now...

[NewYorkerfromMass]

41. I knew I saw it somewhere before.....and now..No. 2

The Larch. The. Larch.

[theemu]

22. Weeping Beech

nm

[4_Legs_Good]

23. Costal Redwood

No questions asked.

david

Kucinich 2004

[rucky]

36. Amen, brothah!

I like Redwoods so much, I built my deck out of 'em!

kidding. kidding.

[WillyT]

47. Double Amen !!!

Just was up in my old haunts (Mendocino Coast) visiting several thousand of them!!!

:hi:

[pfitz59]

49. Humboldt memories.....

Sitting 150 feet off the ground in the grass-like crown of a very fine specimen! (Partaking....)

[KamaAina]

25. How could you leave off the kukui?!

Also known as the candlenut tree, the kukui is the state (national) tree of Hawai'i. Native Hawaiians would string together its oil-rich nuts to make lamps; thus, after European contact, the kukui came to represent the "light" of knowledge.

The nuts can be polished to a rich dark brown and strung into a lei. These lei last far longer than the familiar flower variety, and are less allergenic.

Can your tree do all that?

[catzies]

26. I answered "magnolia," but I dig palm trees the most.

They always turn up in the best places.

[LynneSin]

27. How could you forget the White Birch tree

we had some in our backyard (which part of it was a wooded hill) you could break off a stick and chew on it!

I love the White Birch

[radwriter0555]

28. Jacaranda, Mimosa.. and definitely SEQUIOAS.... From grand

displays of luscious flowers to the unparalleled magnificence of the Sequioas....

[cosmicdot]

29. Royal palm and palms in general; jacaranda; Royal Poinciana

grew up in a town with streets lined with elms (they got hit bad)

and, along the southeastern coast - pines and dogwoods and such



redwoods and west coast and tropical trees tickle my fancy now





when ya Mom and her cousins started-up and were charter members of a branch of The Garden Club ......... one kinda grows up with an appreciation

Crepe Myrtles are quite nice, too ... that Garden Club planted young ones decades ago lining the main Boulevard from one end to another

[FlaGranny]

30. Sweetgum

http://www.natorp.com/Sweetgum.htm

[Mr. McD]

31. Jacaranda Tree

[leftist_rebel1569]

33. PALM TREES!

Palm trees kick so much ass!

(btw, I live in MN, so I don't see them too often...that, and i'm allergic to 5 of the 8 above trees...)

[scarlet_owl]

34. Baobab trees!

n/t

[JHB]

37. The Larch

The.......Larch

[GoddessOfGuinness]

38. Banyan Trees

My grandparents lived not far from a beautiful specimen in Fort Pierce, FL...

[JVS]

39. Chestnut tree

[rexcat]

42. Metasequoia glyptostroboides

otherwise known as the dawn redwood. Thought to have vanished from the earth millions of years ago but a stand of these trees were discovered in China in 1948. They are absolutely gorgeous trees. I have three in my back yard

[FloridaJudy]

43. Dogwood

[Wickerman]

44. I used to have a Magnolia tree - what a pain in the ass

Dirty, huge dropping leaves year round, but so beautiful in the Spring. I'm thinking about a Maple now, I like the way the leaves change. I'm obviously in the nOrht now, used to be south.

[populistmom]

45. Not oak

We have four of them in the backyard, huge old ones and I'm not looking forward to raking once again.

[DoctorBombay]

48. Palm!

There is nothing like the sight of palm trees lining both sides of a street while cruising on a sunny afternoon!

[LWolf]

50. Sequoia

If you want to put things into perspective and just "be" in your place on earth for awhile, there's absolutely nothing like the Sequoia.

Of course, as a confirmed, unrepentant tree hugger, I have other favorites as well:

Oak
Ponderosa
Cedar
crabapple
birch
rowan
willow

Basically, if it's a tree, I love it. Except for the scourge of the earth, Alianthus: the "Tree of Heaven."

[pfitz59]

51. Sequoiadendron, or sempivirens?

Just asking.

[LWolf]

55. Sequoia-dendron giganteum

The largest confirmed living thing on earth.

[Superfly]

52. Poplar...reminds me of Tuscany

and the rest of Northern Italy.

[sister_rosa_refried]

53. Lemon

Lemon tree, very pretty and the lemon flower so sweet. But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.

Yes dears, Sister loves Peter, Paul and Mary. I am a child of the 1960's you know.


All my holy love,


Sister Rosa Refried - Nun and not to be fucked with.

[bleedingheart]

54. I love them all!

I have...

European Beech
Silver Maple (very common but still nice)
Ash
Sweet Bay Magnolia
Acer leafed Japanese maple
Bloodgood Japanese maple
Hemlocks
Serbian Spruce
Flowering Pear - no fruit
Flowering Plum -no fruit