[NatureNS] Fir Tree?

Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:55:43 -0400
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On 9/1/2013 4:43 PM, Jeannie Shermerhorn,Cape George,Richmond County wrote:
> balsam fir... .only cones on softwood in NS that point upwards!

* but maybe an alien Fir of some species - Grand Fir is widely planted 
in Ontario, at least, and looks more pinetree-like than Balsam Fir.

fred.
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>
> On September 1, 2013 at 2:49 PM AngelaJoudrey <aljoudrey@eastlink.ca>
> wrote:
>> I have, what I've always referred to in my mind, a pine tree in my
>> backyard. Not planted by me, it was there when I bought the house. I'm
>> sure it has had cones on it every year but it is loaded with them this
>> year. Which is why I may have only noticed this year that all of the
>> cones are on top of the branches. Not in the top branches, but growing
>> on top of  and straight up on the branches.
>>
>> A not very in depth google search has led me to the possibility of it
>> being a fir tree.
>>
>> Can anyone out there direct me a little more?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Angela in Windsor.
>>
>> --
>> "The significant problems of our time cannot be solved by the same
>> level of thinking that created them."
>> Albert Einstein
>>
>> "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to
>> the rest of the world."
>> John Muir
>
> Jeannie Shermerhorn
>


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