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Love this shot!
5 years agoYes!
5 years agoI agree. This tree would look much better without the surrounding human clutter.
5 years agoI had the same reaction, after living around red cedars all my life. It looks more like a pine or fir to me.
5 years agoI would never have guessed it's a cedar because I always thought cedars had the scaly needles. Of course, I'm thinking of the usual coastal red and yellow "cedars".
5 years agoLooks like your connection with witch hazel is correct!
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=witch%20hazel&ref=searchbar_searchhint
Paradoxically, I don’t see what you’re talking about, maple-wise. I’m glad you raised the point though, because it prompted me to do the research on the origin of this curious name. I finally found it:
Plant breeder Luther Burbank experimented with hybrid walnuts beginning in the 1890s, and cross pollinated the native Claro Walnut with English Walnut. The resulting hybrid was quite puzzling: the tree grew grew faster than either of the parent species, and also yielded harder and stronger lumber (though unfortunately it didn’t produce very many walnuts). Because of these anomalies, Burbank named the hybrid “Paradox.”
Sadly, I can’t find any reference explaining why lindens are called limes; or why they’re called basswood either, for that matter.
So, at the beginning of this post you mention a paradox walnut and somewhere in the middle you refer to the missing paradox maple. I'm so confused. Also, I'm wondering why the Brits would refer to a linden as a lime. I'm going to start calling linden trees paradox limes.
5 years agoThis sounds like something I would do; base an entire bike trip around seeing a certain kind of tree on the other side of the earth.
5 years agoThis sounds like a paradox as well.
5 years agoYou should definitely leave a note on this sign about the tree having been murdered just for development.
5 years agoHow funny. I didn’t bother reading anything on this. Leave it to you to zero in on the key facts.
5 years agoI second that! Insane.
5 years agoSorry to hear about the Airbnb snafu!
Hope you get a full and quick refund.
Here's to a great start to the next tour! Hope the rest of the journey goes as smoothly.
5 years ago