[NatureNS] poplar spp., fungus on catkins, horse chestnut, choke cherry,

Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 20:23:04 -0300
From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
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May 29, 2007 - Just below our home along Wolfville¹s Wickwire Ave., female
catkins of a small LOMBARDY POPLAR are just beginning to shed their
³cottony² seeds, and the catkins are showing lots of yellowish infection
with a FUNGUS (photos taken).

Adjacent to the Lombardy poplar, some large BALSAM POPLARS will not shed
their cottony seeds for weeks yet?

I also looked at some large poplars along Westwood Ave. in the west edge of
the Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens.  Their leaf shape indicates they are
introduced CAROLINA POPLARS, and their lack of hanging catkins now probably
means they are males and dropped their catkins earlier in Spring.  Also
growing with them are two small LARGE-TOOTHED ASPEN POPLARS.

HORSE CHESTNUT in bloom in Wolfville, and CHOKE CHERRY just beginning to
bloom.

May 30, 2007 - PHOTO of WHITE PINE BLISTER RUST on a smallish white pine
trunk perhaps 15 cm. in diameter, a healthy-looking tree, along one of the
Acadia Woodland Trails in Wolfville, just north of Skyview Drive.

In bloom along the trail were YELLOW ROCKET, CUCKOO-FLOWER, FORGET-ME-NOT
species, WILD PLUM tree?, BARBERRY, etc.

Cheers :-) from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204

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