Big tree thread

[Dougfirtree]

I keep meaning to add this photo. It’s a Ceiba tree I saw in Puerto Rico this spring. Age was estimated around 370 years and for scale, that big buttressed root on the right is 12-14 feet tall!

 

[TheGrayRider]

Jungle, Lokomo area, Cameroon, Equatorial Africa, May 2024.

 

[vagabond]

I loved finding the huge old growth monsters in the high country! Too many to list here , but I once found the largest lodgepole pine I had ever seen anywhere in the vicinity of Porphyry Peaks in Grand County,CO. Found some other massive fir and spruce trees in the Indian Peaks Wilderness, huge trees. Sadly, most of them in the northern part of Grand County were consumed in the E. Troublesome fire!

 

[Carl 9.3x62]

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Jungle, Lokomo area, Cameroon, Equatorial Africa, May 2024.


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Any idea what it is?

 

[sccritterkiller]

Morus Rubra...Red Mulberry tree...139" diameter just below the 1st fork...top is all broken out from bears climbing it to get the fruit. Forestry Rep said its at least 100 yrs old maybe 150.

 

[gouch]

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The first year I worked for BLM We were surveying a property line when we came across an area of forest that was populated mostly in white fir running around 2-3 ft. DBH. Scattered throughout the stand every couple of hundred feet there were Douglas Firs running 6-9 ft. DBH. At the end of the day, we were hiking back to the truck when we ran into a forester who was laying out a timber sale. We mentioned that beautiful stand of giant old trees. His response was "that will be a bunch off giant old stumps when I'm done." That was kind of sad, but such was the nature of public land forest management back in the 80s.

 

[BrentD]

The first year I worked for BLM We were surveying a property line when we came across an area of forest that was populated mostly in white fir running around 2-3 ft. DBH. Scattered throughout the stand every couple of hundred feet there were Douglas Firs running 6-9 ft. DBH. At the end of the day, we were hiking back to the truck when we ran into a forester who was laying out a timber sale. We mentioned that beautiful stand of giant old trees. His response was "that will be a bunch off giant old stumps when I'm done." That was kind of sad, but such was the nature of public land forest management back in the 80s.

Sounds like a guy I met back in about 1980 or so at The Brookings Institute. He was some sort of muckity-muck in the Army Corp who said he was about to retire because there were no more streams and rivers to straighten and channelize. He seemed rather depressed, and I don't know if that was because of what he had helped accomplish or the fact that there was nothing left to do. I as too young to have the courage to ask him straight out.

 

[wytex]

This big ol pecan blew over last year, spouse thinks it was at least 150 ys old, maybe older. Might have been a witness tree for their property.
We'll be cutting smoking wood off of it for a few years.

 

[Wildfan99]

 

[Brute]

Maple tree by Lake Crescent, Washington.

 

[OreIdaElk]

Biggest lodge pole I’ve seen

 

[Carl 9.3x62]

Biggest lodge pole I’ve seen
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What's the one next to it? Also big.

 

[OreIdaElk]

What's the one next to it? Also big.

It Douglas fir

 

[one ate E grain]

Backpack for scale is at about chest high. I couldn't tell if this was a dipterocarp as I couldn't see up through the canopy to see if it was sticking up through. It's along side of the Nam Fa which empties into the Mekong about 50km above Thailand and 100km below China. Big sandbar in the Mekong, hard to tell where the Nam Fa empties unless you are looking for it. Much darker than in the photo, nice and cool walking but up and down and over all the roots and trees even though on a path.

This was our second day of being "confused" I had a government guide but he didn't know where we were either. Two villages of the same name was the cause of confusion. Not really lost, just on the other side of the river from where we thought we should have been. Lots of critters but very shy as the people hunt seemingly all the time.

Some day soon you might see that tree in American Furniture Warehouse.

 

[Badknees104]

got some mulberries working now for some wine- they make the best

 

[Hem]

My version of the Elton John song.

"Tie a turkey round the old fir tree"

 

[Wild Bill]

My version of the Elton John song.

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I like this.

 

[BuzzH]

Biggest lodge pole I’ve seen
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Growth form looks more like a limber pine, also looks like more than 2 needles per fascicle. Really tough to tell from a picture.

 

[OreIdaElk]

Growth form looks more like a limber pine, also looks like more than 2 needles per fascicle. Really tough to tell from a picture.

I’m no tree expert and was hunting so didn’t really examine it close so it could be. There was no pines bigger than 12-16 inches in the area.

 

[BuzzH]

I’m no tree expert and was hunting so didn’t really examine it close so it could be. There was no pines bigger than 12-16 inches in the area.

Its really hard to tell from the pictures, very well could be a lodgepole for sure. Lodgepole normally don't take that form, except when they do and much more likely when they're open grown like that. If you ever get back there, look at the needles. If its lodgepole there will be 2 needles per fascicle if its a limber/whitebark, there will be 5 per/fascicle.

Now that I think about it, more probable its a good sized whitebark. Whitebark and Limber are really tough to tell apart, so much so we collect needles for DNA testing.