larix occidentalis

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Larix occidentalis fact sheet
Larix occidentalis fact sheet Western larch Pinaceae Larix occidentalis Nutt. Leaf: Deciduous, yellow-green in spring turning golden yellow in fall; borne singly on current year's twigs, but clustered on spur shoots on older twigs; 1 to 1 3/4 inches long, linear, and flattened to triangular in cross-section. Flower: Monoecious; male ...
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Larix occidentalis- Western Larch
Larix occidentalis- Western Larch Larix occidentalis Western Larch Family: Pinaceae (Pine family) Photo taken at Swauk Pass, elev. 4500 ft., open forest slopes 2002 Thayne Tuason 2002 Thayne Tuason Plant: Sap hardened and chewed like gum by the Okanagan-Colville, Thompson, and Flathead. The Flathead also used the sap to make a syrup in spring, and ate the cambium from the tree. An infusion of ...
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Larix occidentalis Nutt
... Nutt. Western Larch Pinaceae -- Pine Family Wyman C. Schmidt and Raymond C. Shearer Western larch (Larix occidentalis), a deciduous conifer, is also called tamarack and western tamarack; less commonly used names ... x Larix leptolepis hybrid. University of Idaho School of Forestry, Wildlife and Range Experiment Station, Station Note 17. Moscow. 4 p. Wicker, Ed F., and C. Gardner Shaw. 1967. Target area ...
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Western Larch
Western Larch Western Larch Larix occidentalis Larches are amazing conifers in that they are not evergreen. Each fall they turn golden yellow and drop their needles, leaving short stout stubs on all the twigs. The cones stay on the trees for years after the seeds have dropped and turn very dark. The stubs from which the needles grow show annual growth rings from ...
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The Trees of Reed College
... a posting to trees@NOSPAM lists.reed.edu (remove the NOSPAM from the address). Updates for early fall 04 include map 3, where a Gleditsia triacanthos was moved to a new location and a Picea pungens was added, a new Larix occidentalis was planted at map 7, a Picea breweriana planted at map 8, and a Pinus lambertiana added to map 15. 2/5/04: The ...
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Trees of Reed: Tree Information
... . Crataegus spp. D, E, F Fagus sylvatica Fraxinus spp. G Ginkgo biloba Gleditsia triacanthos H, I Halesia carolina Ilex aquifolium J Juglans spp. K, L Kalopanax septemlobus Larix occidentalis Liquidambar styraciflua Liriodendron tulipifera M, N, O Magnolia spp. Malus spp. Metasequoia glyptostroboides P Parrotia persica Paulownia tomentosa Photinia serratifolia Picea spp. Pinus spp. Platanus spp. ...
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Fruticose Lichen Photos
... like tiny white dots (red circles in right image). This fruticose species was collected from the limbs of a western larch (Larix occidentalis) in northern Montana. The beard actually looks better than Mr. Wolffia's own facial hair, and it is edible in an emergency. Alectoria sarmentosa, a pendulous fruticose lichen that hangs in trees. It superficially resembles old ...
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Landowner Fact Sheets - western larch
... . Western larch is the largest of the world's larches. Like all species in the Larix genus, it is a deciduous conifer. Light Fall Color. Water Growth Size Timber Value Western larch is ... western - Latin "occidere" (to set, as the sun). Home - Larix occidentalis I.D. Fact Sheet - US Forest Silvics - Additional silvics - VT Dendro 2004 Virginia Tech Forestry Department, all rights reserved. Text, ...
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Middle Columbia River Ethnobotany Plant List
... Click on the scientific name of a plant for more information- TREES Abies grandis Grand Fir Acer macrophyllum Bigleaf Maple Betula papyrifera var. commutata Western Paper Birch Larix occidentalis Western Larch, Tamarack Picea engelmannii Engelmann Spruce Pinus ponderosa Ponderosa Pine Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa (syn: Populus trichocarpa) Black Cottonwood Populus tremuloides Quaking Aspen ...
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Larix lyallii Parl
... because of the light and discontinuous fuels. Unlike its thick-barked, fire resistant relative, western larch (Larix occidentalis), alpine larch has thin bark and has low resistance to surface fire. Special Uses ... Laboratory, Missoula, MT. Arno, S. F., and J. R. Habeck. 1972. Ecology of alpine larch (Larix Iyallii Parl.) in the Pacific Northwest. Ecological Monographs 42:417-450. Arno, S. F. and R ...
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