This beech leaner i cut last Thanksgiving was among a bunch of saplings. Huge oak had fallen years back opening up the canopy. Lots of mature trees too. I never realized they send runners out like that. Learned something new again here. I knew that black locust sends runners out and last weekend i followed an exposed root for over 25' from a stump
Aspen has root sprouts too. I have a few come up every year in my garden from a tree that is about 30 feet away. Apple, plum and a flowering pear all can have root sprouts . I'm sure there's more.
Yes, I think most folks know it as musclewood. I never knew it as anything but that until about 20 years ago. Also, even putting the stuff in the stacks it can go bad fast.
We don't get a lot of beech up here so I'm not on the lookout for it. But if I drove past something like what your picture shows, I would have mistaken it for poplar (aspen). Might have to start taking a closer look.
Beech is the last tree to drop its leaves, holding onto them into the winter. That pic was taken Thanksgiving weekend last year.
I know, no justice! The further south you go, the higher BTU wood you'll find. In the higher latitudes where you need it the most, you're stuck pulling scraggly pines out of the taiga
Some oaks will hold a % of their leaves all Winter. Beech will often right up to the day before the new leaves start popping out.
Almost. It's what I call any landscape north of Old Orchard Beach Where summer lasts from June 16th to July 8th and the houses are built on permafrost. Taiga - Wikipedia
Eric, Eric no, nada, permafrost in Maine. However Eric, the water is B² chilled. BTW, how you know a taiga ? Butt--we do have 11 months of Winter, and 1 month of p__s poor sledding. For you in the sweat part of the world, O.O.B. is strictly for Canadians.
I don't remember where I picked up Taiga. Maybe in Alaska where a lot of my family lives. Lots of permafrost and scraggly conifers deep in the interior up there. Beautiful rugged place I'll only go back to in the summer during the salmon runs. I exaggerate slightly about the Maine climate, as you do about Connecticut. It does get sweltering here though, as it does get to single digits and below sometimes.
