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While out and about I also photographed another Oxydendron I had seen at the local botanic garden--also blazing this year--in fact I would say in the top 5 trees I saw in that garden for autumn colour. Marc, have you ever tried collecting seed of this?I assume since it is an Ericaceae, those capsules might take a long time to ripen, and would contain tiny seed (maybe kalmia or rhododendron like?)
I would like to show you again one of my favorite small North American native trees: Asimina triloba. First, flowering on bare branches (May 12th this year). By June, the foliage is out---very large and long, clean, dark-green leaves, drooping on tiered branches, with a tropical effect.Large fruits develop in summer- which were ripe and collected today (Nov 4th). Sometimes large developing fruit can actually detract from the beauty of a plant---another reason why Asimina is so great. The fruits are almost entirely hidden amidst the huge, drooping leaves--one actually has to search hard to see them during the growing season.On this day, the foliage was still intact, some of it having taken on some golden colour, the overall ornamental effect of the specimen as a whole is still there at this time of the year.The leaves and bark contain toxins that make them impalatable to most insects and the plant is naturally fungus resistant--- another huge horticultural plus.And if this were not enough....on to the fruit....
Hi all, I went to a tea producing area about 50km from my home today. It's tea blossom season now.