| Images of Spring
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Buckeye (aesculus) just emerging. Sonoma county native. |
Koelreuteria paniculata (golden rain tree). Seed pods holding over winter |
deciduous magnolia. Ancient plant, flowers before leafing and is pollinated by beatles -- not bees. |
black walnut. Nice bark, hardy in Zone 9 |
betula, birch. Serrated pinnately venated |
magnolia |
amplitudo domus, grand house at the ranch |
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 is related to Manzanita, similar flowers and bark -- confirmed by ribosomal comparative genomics. |
Magnolia, named after Pierre Magnol by Charles Plumier and popularized by botanist William Sherard. |
This magnolia seams to have the same curves repeated in the branches, flowers, trunk, stems, and anthers. Fractal like. |
Paulownia is a hardwood, dries without a kiln producing nice furniture and surfboard wood. Jimmy Carter owns a Paulownia plantation. |
Sonoma buckeye |
narcissi |
colangia (sp) |
peach tree blooming |
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 |
door |
pinacea |
posts |
golden retreiver (Jake) |
gold fish |
prunus bark |
prunus, flowering cherry |
rebar hose bib, art and function? |
iris on the banks, started as a single corm |
syringia vulgaris (common lilac) |
juglans nigra (black walnut) |
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