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Very rare:
Corylus avellana (hazel)
Malus sylvestris (crab apple)
Maybe missed some few oddities. The list is roughly from the most common to least common in largely urbanized and semi-urbanized areas.
I'm gonna add Salix alba (white willow) and Tilia × europaea (common linden), which is actually the most usual ornamental tree here. We have some few planted Fragus sylvatica (beech) planted here too.
I've seen birch forests at the treeline in France. Betula nana grows in places like the Massif Central highlands as a relic of the last ice age.
Interesting. Was that Betula pubescens? On the West or North slopes, presumably?
Betula pubescens is not just growing at the treeline in those areas I mentioned, it is the highest climbing tree up the mountains, sometimes 200 m altitude higher than other species. So it defines the treeline.
In some continental areas of Scandinavia (incl some valleys in Norway) the treeline is made up of conifers.
The first photo could be from here. Bummer, you sit on a plane for a whole 25 hours just to find out that the island you landed on looks just like home.
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Yep, that section of road (Lewis Pass> Springs Junction> Shenandoah) has long represented a sense of European-ness to me. When going through there as a kid, I would picture us silently motoring through the gently falling snow in a stylish Mercedes, rather than all swaying around in our clunky old ranger station wagon.
Not the only and most dominate forest type though. We have stretches of nothing but pure loblolly pine stands , at least in my part of the county, you live close to the edge of the range of where loblolly pines dominate.
Yeah, whenever I go into Wake County I notice how many more pine trees they have there.
Interesting. Was that Betula pubescens? On the West or North slopes, presumably?
Betula pubescens is not just growing at the treeline in those areas I mentioned, it is the highest climbing tree up the mountains, sometimes 200 m altitude higher than other species. So it defines the treeline.
In some continental areas of Scandinavia (incl some valleys in Norway) the treeline is made up of conifers.
I guess it was betula pubescens looking at pics, not sure. You know, the regular ones with the white trunk and all. Yup, thinkibg of it, it was on north slopes.
Hard to tell the nature of the soil from a motorway embankment. In those sandy forests, if you often stumble upon such places, here from the other side of Ile-de-France: https://www.google.fi/maps/place/Erm...1a1bb2!6m1!1e1
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Yup, thinkibg of it, it was on north slopes.
