Arboretum is a place to showcase photos of trees: favorite trees, unusual trees, or trees you meet going about your everyday life or while traveling.
If you e-mail your photo(s) to me at ArborDayPlot@gmail.com, I’ll post them on this page.
You’re welcome to include any information about the tree that you know (or not): the tree’s location and/or species; why you noticed the tree; the relationship you have with it; and any other interesting things you know about this tree. The information you share will be included in the photo’s caption.
“Leigh’s Larches”
A member of the Pine family and one of the northernmost trees in North America, a tamarack (aka “Eastern Larch” or “American Larch”) is the only conifer that turns bright yellow in the fall and then sheds its needles, making it a deciduous conifer! (Source: Trees of Michigan: Field Guide by Stan Tekiela, “Tamarack,” p.29)
“I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.”
— Henry David Thoreau
