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kaberettThings I learned:
- Enfield Chace used to be rather larger; Southgate, which is now a tube station, is so named because it was once the South Gate of the Chace. We were given a slightly dubious etymology for the name Enfield, which I've not been able to source, but does mean that I've now found that Its name most likely came from Anglo-Saxon Ēanafeld or similar, meaning "open land belonging to a man called Ēana" or "open land for lambs".
- There was a fascinating pine tree that didn't have a leader (i.e. it just sort of all spread out) AND was "cannibalistic": (terminal) cones grow at the end of growing branches, then branches just... grow through them and keep going. (Picea abies 'Acrocona'??? Picea abies 'Inversa'??? I have now spent Some Time trying to work this out based on the tree map and satellite photography, and mostly I am annoyed at myself for not having taken proper notes. Tentatively going for "maybe 'Inversa', but I need to revisit it".)
- Lots of swamp cyprus that we were encouraged to touch, to my delight: I always feel a bit guilty about touching Official Plants, because What If Not Allow, but we were actively encouraged to do so and it made me Happy.
- Metasequoia glyptostroboides, notable for being a living fossil and also endangered and also being cultivated to be an exciting variety of colours (we particularly had a baby 'Gold Rush' pointed out to us).
- Picea omorika, theoretically the species used by Stradivarius, of particular interest because we were there As An Orchestra.
- I looked at the bendy hornbeam (C.b. 'Pendula'?) and thought "huh, Corylus avellana 'Contorta'"; C.b. 'Fastigiata' also excellent in terms of shape)
- ... Eucalyptus will just like volatilise combustible gas and just... explode, which I had not quite put together.
- ... there was probably more but I have now left it Some Time, so, here you go, here's a first pass on Trees.
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Date: 2019-07-04 09:12 pm (UTC)Have you seen this? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/04/planting-billions-trees-best-tackle-climate-crisis-scientists-canopy-emissions
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Date: 2019-07-05 06:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-07-05 07:22 am (UTC)'Acro-cona' sounds like it should mean "point-cones" / "cones at the points"...
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Date: 2019-07-05 07:25 am (UTC)"Picea abies 'Acrocona' is an irregular upright form of Norway spruce, named for its unusual habit of producing most of its cones at the end of the new growth ("acro" meaning "at the end"). This characteristic also means that tree is self pruning in that the twigs terminate with the cone and the tree tends to take on a drooping, spreading shape and may need staking a terminal to achieve a desired height."
Not quite sure if that matches your description but it sounds like it might?
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Date: 2019-07-05 03:54 pm (UTC)That sounds way cool
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Date: 2019-07-06 01:04 am (UTC)Dear eucalypts, you are strange and smell delicious but why must you be like this.