ID for desert tree with cool survival technique
 

Yeah, I'm sure.
Dwight

"Iris Cohen" wrote in message
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The picture is of a Bristlecone Pine located in the White Mountains of
California/Nevada

Are you sure? Of course many conifers other than junipers exhibit similar
behavior in nature. The difference with junipers is that you can never cut
off
a branch & have the trunk callus over. With pine trees, you can make a jin
if
you want one, or cut the branch off if you choose to. Pines callus over
eventually.

Iris,
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ID for desert tree with cool survival technique
 

Iris Cohen wrote:

The picture is of a Bristlecone Pine located in the White Mountains of
California/Nevada

Are you sure?

Naw, I don't think so. The Bristlecones in the White Mountains are on limestone.
The rocks in the photo look like granites or maybe granitoid gneisses. And the
bush on the lower left, under the space ship looks like a Purshia. I'm going with
Juniperus osteosperma.

http://www.forceacademy.com/Imagesto...esert_tree.jpg

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ID for desert tree with cool survival technique
 

From: (Iris Cohen)


From: "manzanar"

The picture is of a Bristlecone Pine located in the White Mountains of
California/Nevada

Are you sure? Of course many conifers other than junipers exhibit similar
behavior in nature. The difference with junipers is that you can never cut
off
a branch & have the trunk callus over. With pine trees, you can make a jin if
you want one, or cut the branch off if you choose to. Pines callus over
eventually.


The bark on the picture is definitely not a pine. The dead twigs with brown
foliage are typical of juniper twig borer damage, and you don't see that on
pines.

Sean



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