Can anyone help identify this pine tree?
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erm - so you reckon that a bunch of computer weenies are going to be botanical experts as well ;) well fair enough i suppose we (with the exception of a few ockers i could name, and a few japies, and now that i think about it some of the septics aint playing with a full deck, the canucks well the less said about them the better... ) are quite a switched on lot - but i don't fancy your chances ;) Bryce ;)
bryce wrote:
the canucks well the less said about them the better...
Eh? And why is that might I ask? As a cannuck, I'm quite interested to know the level of my supposed insanity :)
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You sure it's a Pine? Looks like a Spruce or Fir from the pictures. Big pines get pretty thinned out as they lose their older needles. There's an identical looking tree right across the street from me which sure looks like a Spruce from here. The reason I ask is that I'm sitting here in the land of Spruce, Pine and Fir and pretty much everyone calls them all Pine trees. Anyway, if you're not sure it's a pine, this[^] will help. Cheers, Drew.
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erm - so you reckon that a bunch of computer weenies are going to be botanical experts as well ;) well fair enough i suppose we (with the exception of a few ockers i could name, and a few japies, and now that i think about it some of the septics aint playing with a full deck, the canucks well the less said about them the better... ) are quite a switched on lot - but i don't fancy your chances ;) Bryce ;)
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You sure it's a Pine? Looks like a Spruce or Fir from the pictures. Big pines get pretty thinned out as they lose their older needles. There's an identical looking tree right across the street from me which sure looks like a Spruce from here. The reason I ask is that I'm sitting here in the land of Spruce, Pine and Fir and pretty much everyone calls them all Pine trees. Anyway, if you're not sure it's a pine, this[^] will help. Cheers, Drew.
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bryce wrote:
but i don't fancy your chances [Wink]
Well you never know what you're going to get here. Bloody greenie council are making us jump through hoops to remove our own tree from our own property.
Josh Gray wrote:
Bloody greenie council are making us jump through hoops
Well... I'm not suggesting you take this path, but my brother once approached removal of a problem tree by first spreading some Grants stump remover around the roots. The tree did not like that. In fact, the tree died. Quickly. Getting permission to remove it subsequently was no problem. -- Ian
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Josh Gray wrote:
Bloody greenie council are making us jump through hoops
Well... I'm not suggesting you take this path, but my brother once approached removal of a problem tree by first spreading some Grants stump remover around the roots. The tree did not like that. In fact, the tree died. Quickly. Getting permission to remove it subsequently was no problem. -- Ian
ied wrote:
Well... I'm not suggesting you take this path, but my brother once approached removal of a problem tree by first spreading some Wards stump remover around the roots. The tree did not like that. In fact, the tree died. Quickly.
It had crossed my mind. However the fine is not cheap (can exceed $100,000.00) if we are caught and the risk of such a large tree falling on our or our neighbours house is not worth the risk.
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ied wrote:
Well... I'm not suggesting you take this path, but my brother once approached removal of a problem tree by first spreading some Wards stump remover around the roots. The tree did not like that. In fact, the tree died. Quickly.
It had crossed my mind. However the fine is not cheap (can exceed $100,000.00) if we are caught and the risk of such a large tree falling on our or our neighbours house is not worth the risk.
Josh Gray wrote:
It had crossed my mind. However the fine is not cheap (can exceed $100,000.00) if we are caught and the risk of such a large tree falling on our or our neighbours house is not worth the risk.
In any case, since you've already initiated things changing course would be a bad idea. -- Ian
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If you want to be sure, you might want to contact a local college and send them some needle samples for identification. I'm sure they'd be glad to help.
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This place is *the* place to get anything in the plant family identified: http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/forums/index.php[^] Post your pics there and ask and I gurantee you will get a definitive answer in short order, just don't say you want to remove it. :)
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This place is *the* place to get anything in the plant family identified: http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/forums/index.php[^] Post your pics there and ask and I gurantee you will get a definitive answer in short order, just don't say you want to remove it. :)
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
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Whoops, just looked at the pics, per my pervious suggestion you will *really* need to add a very close shot of the needles, the cones or seeds if possible even dead ones on the ground, the bark and describe geographically where you are to get any results, those shots are just too far away for positive id but they will help in addition to a close up.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
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Whoops, just looked at the pics, per my pervious suggestion you will *really* need to add a very close shot of the needles, the cones or seeds if possible even dead ones on the ground, the bark and describe geographically where you are to get any results, those shots are just too far away for positive id but they will help in addition to a close up.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
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Should have mentioned to use the "Plant idenfication" board here: http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=38[^] If the punters can't id it there is usually a master biologist or gardener or whatever they are called that steps in but it doesn't usually go that far and probably less so with any tree.
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Hi Josh, this is what my friend George (on CP known as electriac[^]), has to say about your tree: Without a close up of the needles and cones it would be impossible to make any definitive identification but from the growth pattern it looks more like an Arborvitae (Thuga Canadensis Nigra) perhaps. Does it have needles! If so the number of needles to the bundle would put you on the right track very quickly. pines are classified by the number of needles to the bundle White Pine (Pinus Strobus) 5 Austrian Pine 2 Hope this helps. :)
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bryce wrote:
but i don't fancy your chances [Wink]
Well you never know what you're going to get here. Bloody greenie council are making us jump through hoops to remove our own tree from our own property.
Just tell them its a Common Spruce or something like that - you don't actually believe that some council jobsworth is bothered what it really is, he just needs a name for his 'Enter name of tree here' box. :)
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