Looking through kijiji I came across this ad... Fire Wood | free stuff | Prince Albert | Kijiji What does this tree look like to you? Kinda strange looking for tamarack don't you think?
Its crown is weird for a tamarack, it could have possibly been trimmed or lost its top at one point. But looking at the bottom branches it looks more shapely and it's needles are all uniform in color change to fall all just like a tamarack.
A year's worth of firewood, and all I have to do to get it,,, is rope it down from over the guy's house? Sounds like a great deal, where do I sign up?
must have paid for your own insurance too That's funny Notice the 200 limbs & house I guess it never hurts to try Probably wants you to pay to have it all hauled off & the stump removed too
Lol. I mean all that free wood is more than worth the work to take that tree down safely. But yeah, that's an odd looking tamarack.
The picture is so poor its hard to get a good eye on the needles or leaves. The shape is nothing like what a larch or tamarack would look like but being a yard tree maybe its been pruned so much its sprouted many tops. If indeed those are needles then its a tamarack because tamarack and larch are the only trees that drop needles each year.
Sean, tamarack and larch are the same tree, just called different things depending on where you are. Out West it's called larch, but here I know it's called tamarack. It's the only deciduous conifer, so it's pretty easy to ID, with a clear picture that is.
Well in a way yes but there are numerous species of larch with differences like size, bark thickness and cone size among other things. What I have out here for example is Western Larch which is a much bigger tree than the Tamarack Larch.
Actually there are 11 accepted species of larch. The kind I have in my region are Western Larch (Larix occidentalis) and Subalpine Larch (Larix lyallii) I found this little note very interesting " The Subalpine Larch is also one of the longest lived tree species. There is record of a specimen in Kananaskis, Alberta which is 1943 years old, the oldest tree in Canada." Larch - Wikipedia Larch Trees in Canada
