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| All images except the last three are from the Michigan Flora website. Ripe Bladdernut fruit. They rattle when you shake them. |
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| Bladdernut |
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| Wafer Ash |
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| Moonseed with typical-for-my-area leaves |
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| Atypical leaves. Lovely photo, though. |
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| Wild Yam. I found it growing in association with Pagoda Dogwood, a beat-up Wild Black Cherry and a small American Elm. It looks elegant on the Pagoda Dogwood and would add winter interest. |
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| Some more seed panicles |
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| Some American Larch with better-than-average tree form. Most of the ones around here look kind of scrubby. These were as straight as utility poles. I did not get any seeds from these. |
My late Brother used to collect Canadian Hemlock seed and sell it. It takes about 385,000 hemlock seeds to make a pound. There are about 26 seeds in a Hemlock cone.
ReplyDeleteHe also used to collect Fraser Fir seed. They have a limited growing area and won't survive below about 2,500 feet elevation.
To get the seed, you have to use a shaker machine. It separates the seed from the cone and other detritus.
Interesting set of choices, and a lot of work!
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DeleteCleaned Can. Hemlock seed and Fraser Fir seed gets about $90.00 per pound, depending. One year, my brother sold 300 pounds of Hemlock seed and a couple hundred pounds of Fraser Fir seed.
ReplyDeleteI was reading an article about deer that said they were immune to poison ivy and would eat it. Deliberately planting it seems a stretch but I suppose someone could do it to both attract deer and deter/channel humans.
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