trees
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Shagbark Hickory
Carya ovata produces thick-fleshed fruit, which dries out to hard four-quarter shell protecting the inner nutshell. Most of them fall to the ground before splitting, or being split/gnawed/chewed by our fellow mammals, but this one was still up on a twig.
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Great Swamp
And so much lichen! The whitish looking parts of these trees are actually lichen in the bright sun. Lichen needs fairly clean air to grow, which is why it is generally — but not completely — absent from NYC.
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No Filter But The Leaves
The sun is behind the brown and purple leaves of this White Oak, making some magic.
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Metasequoia Cone
Cone of the Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides), which is more rectangular than the ball-shaped fruit of the similar looking tree, the Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum). I bought one of the Baldy fruits home to photograph, too, but it fell into its constituent pieces in my bag, each heady with resin. They are put together like…
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Tree Woods
An enormous weeping willow (Salix) on 6th Avenue in Park Slope.
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