#cottonwood trees

[riverwindphotography]

A softer side of the forest

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[herbalnature]

Upward glance into a whispering canopy of cottonwood trees, where autumn weaves its golden magic. It's like a natural cathedral ceiling painted in hues of fall.

[ghostoffuturespast]

27 October 2023 - Friday Field Notes

Not much I can show in the way of pictures this week, but we did have this foggy autumn morning earlier. A last clinging breath before the cold settles in...

With shorter and colder days, many plants go dormant in the winter to help conserve energy, reduce water loss, and help protect themselves from frost damage. Deciduous trees have hormones that are triggered by the change in daylight that signal for them to start reabsorbing the nutrients that they used to produce leaves. It's also why leaves turn colors in the fall!

You can read sciencier article here:

[redreadretale]

High Desert Cottonwoods Ready for Winter.

[deadgirlcasper]

Cotton from cottonwood trees

[kcdrummergirl]

[theunicornthoughts]

Doctor Claw watching the cottonwood fall thinking it’s snowing during a 100+ degree day. Christmas in July for him. The cottonwood doesn’t really start coming down until July that’s going to blow his little mind

[starwolf53]

Yknow where i live has a lot of cottonwood trees and around this time of year they all shed their seeds and sometimes I get to thinking

Has anyone tried to start a cotton industry using cottonwood? Would it work? How viable would it be compared to actual cotton?

Pros:

Native tree :)

Makes birds happy

Trees! More trees = good, right?

Cons:

Might get outcompeted by real cotton

I have seasonal allergies :(

I kill every plant i touch

Mostly making this post of of sheer curiosity but if you happen to know stuff about plants and/or the cotton industry i guess? Feel free to infodump in the notes

[gnarl3ne-blog]

Cottonwood tree branch fuzz by Arlene Schag

[mattibee-portfolio]

Shy Whimsicott hide behind their own fluff 🥺

[sharpshotnature]

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[riverwindphotography]

A Crown of Light

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[herbalnature]

Look up and get lost in a mesmerizing canopy of cottonwood trees, their leaves a tapestry of autumn hues against the sky. It's like nature's own kaleidoscope, right overhead.

[fatchance]

A small mystery.

My hikes on the trails at San Pedro House usually take me by two fallen cottonwood trees, with their entire root plates exposed. From their size, I think the trees were likely at least a century old when they fell. On my latest hike I found a cow jawbone protruding high on the root mass of one of the trees. There were also loose bits of teeth and bones on the pile of soil that has washed from the roots. 

San Pedro House was built the late 1930s, and was an outpost and cattle breeding operation of Little Boquillas Ranch. Cattle would have grazed here well into the 1980s. Cattle herds may have arrived along the San Pedro River as early as 1540 during Coronado’s entrada into what is now Arizona, and it is certain there were herds of hardy crilollo cows on the open range here throughout the 18th and 19th Centuries. 

But how did this jawbone end up enmeshed deep in in the roots of a hundred year old cottonwood tree? Or is this someone’s small joke, a sort of Piltdown Cow, with teeth and bones deliberately placed in the caliche soil to confound the gullible? 

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[kcdrummergirl]