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Friends with bare branches

12.04.2009 - 14:01 |  Looduskalender
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis from forum
 
Easter greeting: tea-leaved willow with catkins.
 
We will still be seeing bare branches for at least a month – before leaves come out. But making friends with trees and shrubs, and getting to know them by name, doesn’t have to keep until summer. Identifying these large plants is not complicated at all if you know a few shortcuts. Some species are actually easier to recognise when they are bare, as for instance the alder buckthorn and the buckthorn that look quite similar in their summer foliage but very different now – the buckthorn has thorns, and the branching patterns are quite different.  
 
The April issue of the journal “Loodusesõber” provides help for learning to know trees and shrubs by the different patterns of their crowns and branch divisions so that other friends in the forest too, in addition to the willow catkins, can be recognised in spring.
 

With the branches beloved by all – tea-leaved willow with catkins – we wish all readers a Happy Easter!


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