"Roger Zimmerman" wrote:

The lake is Columbia Lake, BC, Canada, in Canal Flats.
I guess what I am hearing is starting plants from a leaf doesn't work.
I'll try some other option.

Where the leaf attaches to a branch is a bud. This bud can be used to
start a new tree by tissue culture.

Any branch can be used to start a new tree by rooting either soft wood
cuttings or hard wood cuttings.

The most natural method is to collect seeds. Most trees produce them.
In fact there are usually seedlings coming up under trees.
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