Tree/Wild Plant/Foraging Appreciation Station

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Captain Invictus: Apr 5, 2005; Try reading some manga!; Clever Betty

Kaiser Schnitzel posted:

It's pretty incredible stumbling across a Bigleaf Magnolia in bloom:

It has the largest simple leaf and largest flower in North America, I believe.

I got to this thread from a different thread that I was linked to in a third thread, and I saw this in the OP. there is a forest in Massachusetts that has a weird variety of plants I've not seen anywhere else in the state, and I think the story is someone had an elaborate garden with a bunch of exotic and decorative plants. when they died it was left untended for decades, eventually turning into a forest with a bunch of weird plants in it. among them are a bunch of plants with absolutely massive leaves, are these Bigleaf Magnolias?

apologies for the lovely photo quality, these are over a decade old and multiple phones ago.

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# ¿ May 6, 2024 04:01

Captain Invictus: Apr 5, 2005; Try reading some manga!; Clever Betty

cool! this was in a park near new hampshire, there were a bunch of other things like bushes that looked like they were the sorts you'd see decorating outside office buildings, but...in the wild.

there was also the ever-encroaching scourge of oriental bittersweet choking absolutely everything. it's so sad.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2024 22:27

Captain Invictus: Apr 5, 2005; Try reading some manga!; Clever Betty

the yeti posted:

Check with your local park rangers, a lot of places host volunteer events and/or train laypeople to beat back invasives in public areas.

I have had enough trouble dealing with oriental bittersweet on my own property, let alone going somewhere else and dealing with it there too. poo poo is a plague upon the land

# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 21:19

Captain Invictus: Apr 5, 2005; Try reading some manga!; Clever Betty

Yeah I border a forest that is choked with the poo poo, so there is ZERO hope of me ever getting rid of it for good.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 01:04

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