aesculus
Buckeye (aesculus) just emerging. Sonoma county native.
Koelreuteria paniculata
Koelreuteria paniculata (golden rain tree). Seed pods holding over winter
magnolia anthers
deciduous magnolia. Ancient plant, flowers before leafing and is pollinated by beatles -- not bees.
black walnut
black walnut. Nice bark, hardy in Zone 9
betula
betula, birch. Serrated pinnately venated
magnolia
magnolia
amplitudo domus
amplitudo domus, grand house at the ranch
amanita silvicola, Common in Sonoma. Deadly...
amanita silvicola, 12 inch diameter mushroom growing in pine compost. Do not eat! Amanita interferes with RNA Polymerase II, stopping all cell functions in animals. Amanita has a modified Polymerase which confers immunity.
Arbutus ( Strawberry Tree ), the genus Mandrone
Arbutus is related to Manzanita, similar flowers and bark -- confirmed by ribosomal comparative genomics.
magnolia petals
Magnolia, named after Pierre Magnol by Charles Plumier and popularized by botanist William Sherard.
magnolia x
This magnolia seams to have the same curves repeated in the branches, flowers, trunk, stems, and anthers. Fractal like.
Paulownia tomentosa
Paulownia is a hardwood, dries without a kiln producing nice furniture and surfboard wood. Jimmy Carter owns a Paulownia plantation.
palmate leafs of the common buckeye
Sonoma buckeye
mini narcissi
narcissi
colangia
colangia (sp)
peach
peach tree blooming
Sequoia gigantea
Sequoiadendron giganteum ( aka Sequoia gigantea ). Once thought to be the largest living organism, it was trumped by a 2,300 acre ( 4 sq. mile) mushroom found in the Blue Mountains of Oregon. Sequoiadendrons need wildfires to clear competing plants and to regenerate from seed.
perched
perched
door
door
pinacea
pinacea
posts
posts
golden fish
golden retreiver (Jake)
gold fish
gold fish
prunus bark
prunus bark
prunus
prunus, flowering cherry
rebarbib
rebar hose bib, art and function?
iris
iris on the banks, started as a single corm
syringia vulgaris
syringia vulgaris (common lilac)
juglans nigra
juglans nigra (black walnut)