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  • Identifying a Mystery Tree

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    The tree’s trunk is braided, fluted, and made of sculptured vertical hills and valleys, some thick. The moment I see the photograph of the unusual trunk of this mystery tree and I notice the email’s subject—“Tree Identifying Help?”—I am hooked. This is a mystery I want to solve. The local gardener who wonders which tree…

  • Vancouver’s Blossom Parade in the Rosaceae Family

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    Forty thousand street trees in the Rosaceae Family romance Vancouverites in a blossom parade every year. Rose family trees provide a sensory gift with their aromatic, delicate, white, pale pink, ruby red, and vivid crimson buds and blossoms and their leaves that range from pale green through to forest green. Like so many others, I…