Isaiah 55:12
“For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
It looks like phenologists are finally making headway on some vexing questions... https://www.quantamagazine.org/across-a-continent-trees-sync-their-fruiting-to-the-sun-20240618/. Yet how European beech trees do it is still a mystery.
We have a few birches in the Botanic Garden, but I don't know of any beeches, genus Fagus. There is an American beech, Fagus grandifolia, native to our continent, but I don't know of any in our collection.
Best I've got for a photo this evening is this one of a grand old cottonwood.
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