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drops of water on the new growth of the totara tree
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This Knobcone Pine (Pinus attenuata) is a slow-growing tree that grows in mild climates on poor soils from Oregon to Baja California with the greatest concentration being in northern California. The cones are clustered on the branches and remain closed for many years until a fire opens them and exposes their seeds. "Since the cones may become imbedded within the wood of the expanding trunk, this species has been called 'the tree that swallows its cones.' When fires kill the trees, cones as much as 30 years old are opened by the heat and shed their seeds. The abundant seedlings then begin a new forest."This tree was found at the top of Pine Mountain, aka Buzzard's Roost, in Big Basin Redwoods State Park in California.
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California, United States
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Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia
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Orinda, California, United States
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Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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2013-01-12 Vienna, district III., Schweizergarten, cultivars - Excursion Fischer (198 msm Quadrant 7864/1).German name: UrweltmammutbaumNative of China, and discovered only in the early 1940ies (but correctly identified not before the late 1940ies); it is a 'living fossil' inasmuch it is the only remaining living species of Metasequoia genus, and as its fossil predecessor was known before the living species has been found.From the late 1940ies onwards, botanical gardens all over the world tried to get some seedlings, and so did park gardeners, like the city gardeners of Vienna. M. glyptostroboides now is growing (in small numbers) in some Viennese parks.
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New South Wales, Australia
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Scotland, United Kingdom
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Sedona, Arizona, United States
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Mt Kinabalu, edge of lower-altitude rainforest not far from Park entrance.
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Big Desert, Victoria, Australia
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Parque Nacional Villarica, Chile. Volcan Lanin in the background.
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Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Cedrus atlanticaAtlas cedar. An Infrared photo. The cedar grows in a neighbor's yard in Berkeley, CA. The mother of this neighbor told me about 25 years ago that she had planted this tree when her son was very young. This would make the tree over 60 years old. It towers above everything else on the block and is a favorite perch for hawks as they survey the area for their next meal. A local flock of turkeys like it for a roost whenever they wander into the neighborhood.
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Rozelle Psychiatric Hospital, inner-western Sydney. Same tree as in photo 1467. I suspect the rings on the trunk are from scars of the original leaves, which can persist for maybe 10 years before being shed.
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Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
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California, United States
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Botanic Gardens, SydneySee notes and comments under adjacent shot.