Tree of the Week: Southern Live Oak
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By Mark Halpin, Forestry Manager The Southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) is the iconic tree of the Deep South, where its enormous spreading limbs, often adorned with Spanish moss and […]
Tree of the Week: Silver Maple
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By: Mark Halpin, Forestry Manager In our area you’d be hard pressed to find someone with good things to say about the silver maple, Acer saccharinum. The native maples of […]
Tree of the Week: Cucumber Magnolia
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By Mark Halpin, Forestry Manager Magnolia acuminata, cucumber magnolia, our only Missouri native magnolia, is seldom even recognized as a member of that illustrious genus that graces springtime and early […]
Tree of the Week: Chestnut Oak
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By: Mark Halpin, Forestry Manager Chestnut oak, Quercus montana (also sometimes listed as Q. prinus) is not one of the 22 oaks native to Missouri. Nor is it native to […]
Sweetbay magnolia
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As spring nears its end in St. Louis, only a handful of flowers remain, fizzling out like the final bittersweet bursts of a fireworks display. The heavy hitters, the dogwoods, […]
Tree of the Week: Basswood and the Tillia genus
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“When the shade begin to be heavy and the midges fill the woods, and when the western sky is a curtain of black nimbus slashed by the jagged scimitar of […]
Tree of the Week: Southern Magnolia
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By: Mark Halpin, Forestry Manager The southern magnolia, Magnolia grandiflora, holds a special place in the hearts of southerners. A resident of Louisiana once told me that when his grandfather’s […]
Tree of the Week: Black Locust
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By: Mark Halpin, Forestry Manager Robinia pseudoacacia, black locust, does not get a lot of respect among the arborists, foresters and horticulturists of North America, although it is common both […]
Tree of the Week – White Fringetree
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By: Mark Halpin, Forestry Manager Chionanthus virginicus, white fringetree, has one of the most unusual flower displays of any North American flowering tree (the only serious competition comes from smoketree, […]
Tree of the Week – Hawthorn
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By: Mark Halpin, Forestry Manager We covered green hawthorn in a previous installment, but the Crataegus genus is worth revisiting for too many reasons to pass up. Hawthorn blooms are […]