#european larch

[unkn0wnvariable]

Larch Cones

Cones forming on the branch of a larch tree, in Twywell Plantation.

#canon #canonuk #cone #cones #conifer #conifers #european larch #larch #larix decidua #nature #nature reserve #northamptonshire #northants #outdoors #seed #seeds #summer #tree #trees #twywell #twywell plantation #wildlife #wood #woodland #woodland trust #woods

[colorsoutofearth]

European larch (Larix decidua)

Left photo: Duncan McEwan

Right photo: Guy Edwardes

#Larix decidua #larch #european larch #conifers #plants #botanical #trees #red #green #red and green #green and red #nature #plant photography #macro photography

[freshtendril]

My bonsai of Japanese maple and Lady fern, with a background of a twin European larch.

A decade ago a friend gave me the maple seedling from underneath parent maples, while the fern grew voluntarily from a spore in the same pot some time later.

Arranging bonsai is almost as fun as creating and tending to them. It's not like herding cats though. They are more like living green art-pet rescue sculpture creatures.

#bonsai #bonsai training #japanese maple #European larch #container gardening #garden #gardening #rescue plants

[bonefall]

Larches

We're talking about Larix decidua, the European Larch, because lads I've got some choices to make.

Why? Because this little slut is a NON-NATIVE CONIFER.

AND A NASTY ONE AT THAT. You know how I mentioned in my Moorland research notes that conifers from nearby plantations have a nasty habit of spreading? Larches are the worst offender of that little quirk, and can be intentionally used to afforest an area to get it ready for new trees.

That's a good thing in certain areas-- damage from mines, intensive farming, and ecological disasters can be fixed with larch. Here in America and other parts of Europe it is a useful tool in conservation (especially in its native range)

But NOT in England. The larch was introduced in the 1600s for lumber purposes and gobbles up moorland like a glutton. It is a voracious pioneer species of low-nutrient soils, much like the two birches, scotch pine, and field maple.

The BB timeline, however, begins around the late 1800s with Hollyleaf's Century. Victorians. Not the ROOT of all evil, just a metastisis of it. The destruction of SkyClan's territory is somewhere in the 1960s.

So while it's not impossible that one of the two plantations encountered in the story are larch, I would like to keep it consistent. Larch plantations aren't the big bad in the modern era-- it's Sitka spruce in 1st place (accounting for a massive percentage of forest cover in the UK) and Douglas fir in a more distant second.

It's unlikely Clan cats would encounter larch, keeping in mind the history of both regions they live in, unless I make up a reason JUST for it to be here.

So I'm thinking about blasting it away in names, in line with my other ecological replacements like changing Hickorynose to Chicorynose. That would mean a major character, Larchkit, Larchface in StarClan, would become Lurchface. A lurch being the split between two major branches of a tree.

(Which makes perfect sense since his secret father, Appledusk (crabapple-sunset in clanmew), is named after a tree that likes to branch like that. Birches tend to grow straight.)

But before I nuke all mentions of larch from orbit, ARE there any objections?

#Me. Evil overlord. Standing at a big red death ray button #Turning over to the minions and creatures like ''does anyone have anything to share before I press this'' #Alternatively. Me about to press the Eschatron 9000 #Ecological overhauls

[gumnut-logic]

Growing up in Australia is weird when a lot of the literature I was brought up with was English, along with the TV being a good percentage American.

You see we have Eucalypt trees as the dominant native tree…well, everywhere - there are 700 odd species 😁

Common Laurasian flora includes common names like beech, ash, oak, sycamore, birch, fir, larch, maple, elm, etc. all from the northern hemisphere.

It has taken me years to work out what these trees are.

Elm - identified, street tree where I went to school.

Ash - weed over here. Also bred to become claret ash.

Oak - couple around the suburbs, at least four cork oaks up in Belair National Park.

Birch - knew that one, silvery bark is quite iconic.

Maple - know what they look like, plus the Japanese variety, but no idea which type is the syrup type.

Beech - this one continues to elude me, despite the fact that beeches have a long history in Gondwana. The Otways and Tasmania host the southern or Antarctic Beech. Unfortunately, I haven’t identified one enough to remember enough detail. I have no idea what the northern beeches look like (I should look this up)

Fir - some kind of conifer, don’t know enough to identify it from Pines.

Larch - no idea.

The reason for all this babbling is today I discovered what a sycamore tree is. No only that, but I have been walking under a closely related if not the same tree every morning on the way to work. Here we know them as Plane trees. Admittedly, ‘sycamores’ are actually a common name used to describe several species across at least two genus. But I now know what one looks like.

Also, growing up with Enid Blyton and her deep, dark forests had me , as a kid, looking for such forests. South Australia only has dry sclerophyll forest. Eucalypts are hear adapted and turn their leaves edge on to the sun direction. There are no natural dark forests in South Australia. Pinus radiata plantations are about as close as we get.

But anyway, I’m a European descendant who grew up in a wildly different land, which I love, of course, but it has taken me half a century to identify some of the trees my ancestors grew up with.

/End babble

Nutty

(Who could always look them up, I guess)

#nutty is nuts

[lycomorpha]

The Flora of AC Valhalla: The beginning - Karmøy, Norway

I've just started a new play through of AC Valhalla from scratch, because I'd forgotten some of the plot points I need for this book herbarium. But I realise it's easier the 2nd time around to take in the plants we see in game... So I've been having a closer look at species we see, how Eivor might have used them, and how they relate to plants found in present-day locations that appear in game. & Because I'm a massive nerd I'm gonna burble about here....

Firstly, I noticed plants appear from the first scenes with young Eivor; as soon as she opens the door to the hall her & Sigurd's clans are celebrating in... There are flowers hanging from the beams and scattered on the floor.

Technically you could nitpick & argue they would be out of season vs the weather we see outside, blah blah... But it still tells us something about the role we ascribe to flowers as symbols of celebration or ceremony. Their presence means it's An Event - and that plants are with us from the starting scenes.

The island we find ourselves on next is called Karmøy in the present day - I don't think it's named in game. I've never been there (the only place I know IRL from this part of the game is Stavanger.) Handily, iNaturalist gives me some botanical pointers to what we could be seeing, and I've used that to interpret both expected and unexpected plants I see. We start on the southern end of the island.

The first things you notice (once you've smacked away Kjotve's arsebarnacle-henchgoons) are:

Coniferous trees - spruce, pine

Deciduous trees - birches, weird-ass out of place beeches

Shrubs - Cloudberries, billberry/bearberry or similar

Let's do easy things first... Norway spruce - the pointy classic christmas-tree conifer - is the most obvious plant to me. (& have I mentioned how much I love the sky/light/treescapes in this game? Lovelovelove.)

Big and small, this spruce all over the place (and exists on present day Karmøy too, no surprise.) Norway spruce has been used as timber, medicine and food for generations. No doubt Eivor would be very familiar with it - maybe she used vitamin C-rich shoot tips as a tea, food, and medicine. Possibly she'd take it to prevent scurvy on long voyages.

There are also classic pines - Scots pine is the most obvious candidate for the puffy-topped pine shapes we see in-game. In Scandinavian countries pine tar extracted from it has a loooong history of use - in preservation and waterproofing for wood and fabric, and in medicine as an antiseptic. In fact we still use pine tar today - there's an interesting review here, which the pharmacologist-part of me enjoyed a lot. Maybe the ropes we see in camp and on Eivor's longship were waterproofed/preserved with pine tar?

Some of the bare-looking conifers could also be larches, although I don't know when in history the deciduous European larch became naturalised in Norway.

We see plenty of silver birches like the ones below - since I covered those for a page of Eivor's herbarium, I'll just say here that it also has a myriad of historical uses that Eivor would be familiar with, from tar and timber to sap syrup.

We also see what looks for all the world like beeches but growing in a manner I'd expect of brambles (below.) I noticed this playing the first time around too, where you'd expect to see brambles we see things that look like beech saplings. So I think I'm going to go ahead and say that they're a weird interpretation of some kind of bramble. We wouldn't expect to see beeches here with leaves on in the snow. I see adult beech trees around as as well - so just want to note this isn't what I'd expect IRL.

In the same family as brambles are the cloudberries we can use as rations. If you've never eaten cloudberries or drunk them in liqueur/tea/etc, let me assure you they're fucking delicious.

But they're also a smol plant, and do not grow in gigantic bushy clusters. The difficulty in this and other games is that when you design a resource plant, it has to be large/obvious enough for players to interact with. So I kinda get why. But sadly we do not find monster cloudberries IRL. They're also hard to cultivate so I'm envious of Eivor's access to ginormous monster berries.

We also frequently see a low-growing shrub with reddish leaves that reminds me of bilberry or bearberry. Both are common in Norway and the UK, where I am rn. Both have leaves that turn red. The plants here are again a bit oversized, but I'm still gonna go with those two as my best guess. Both have edible berries, and bilberry jam is also fucking delicious.

They also both contain a range of interesting phytochemicals including tannins and anthocyanins, and have historical and present medicinal uses that have been reviewed by the European Medicines agency here and here. It's not a glamorous use, but Eivor might have used bilberry or bearberry medicinally if she got the squits while traveling, or picked up cystitis - their traditional uses include treatment of diarrhoea and urinary tract infections. (I mean... A vikingr had to deal with downstairs problems like any other human I guess, heheh.)

Speaking of berries... Crowberries are also found in the same region present-day, but their leaves look different - and to be honest I know less about them. But I suspect they're something Eivor might have been familiar with.

Other botanical stuff...

Lichens and fungi are my main botanical thing so I'm going to shoehorn them in there because we do at least see a few - on the rocks near the first sync point is a good place to look. Around Europe including Scandinavia, various lichens have been used in antiseptics, cold medicines, cosmetics, dyes, and crafting material. I can totally see Eivor using hair rinse containing usnea or using it dried as a firestarter.

Lastly I noticed this unseasonable yellow flower in my trade goods. Looks a lot like the yellow wood-sorrel we see elsewhere that would not have been found in Norway or the UK in the 9th Century, so lets say maybe it's a cinquefoil, or buttercup, or something. *shrug emoji*

~

Playing this game again, I feel like I have time to look around instead of being super-focused on the plot. It's a different experience to stop and think about how the developers have reflected the flora of Norway and what uses Eivor might have for the species we see. I even like what's surprising, out of place or out of season. I don't often play a game more than once tbh, but maybe I should, it feels like having new eyes.

#ac valhalla #video game botany #videogamebotany #botany #assassin's creed valhalla #assassins creed valhalla #eivor #lady eivor #eivor wolfkissed #eivor varinsdottir #flora of ACV #Flora of AC Valhalla

[sivstudier]

langblr reactivation | 2022-11-20

week 1, day 4: a vocabulary list

i take this as an opportunity to study hyper-specific vocab!

common danish trees in danish

ahorn = sycamore maple

ask = european ash

birk = birch

bjergfyr = mountain pine

bævreasp = european aspen

bøg = european beech

eg = oak

elm = wych elm

fuglekirsebær = sweet cherry

kastanie = chestnut tree

kristtorn = common holly

kæmpegran = grand fir

lærk = larch

navr = field maple

rødel = black alder

rødgran = norway spruce

skovfyr = pinus sylvestris

#langblr #languages #studyblr community #studies #language learning #langblr reactivation challenge #100 days of productivity #student #polyglot #studyblr #emmastudies

[boy-warbler]

American Goldfinch on European Larch. Ashbridge's Bay Park yesterday

#birdwatching #birding #birds #torontobirds #finch #goldfinch

[askscarletsmp]

HEY AMP,CAN YOU WRITE MY ESSAY FOR ME??? IT'S ABOUT TREES OR SOMETHING

You might need to be a bit more specific but, in botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only woody plants with secondary growth, plants that are usable as lumber or plants above a specified height. In wider definitions, the taller palms, tree ferns, bananas, and bamboos are also trees.

European larch (Larix decidua), a coniferous tree which is also deciduous

Trees are not a monophyletic taxonomic group but consist of a wide variety of plant species that have independently evolved a trunk and branches as a way to tower above other plants to compete for sunlight. The majority of tree species are angiosperms or hardwoods; of the rest, many are gymnosperms or softwoods. Trees tend to be long-lived, some reaching several thousand years old. Trees have been in existence for 370 million years. It is estimated that there are around three trillion mature trees in the world.

A tree typically has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground by the trunk. This trunk typically contains woody tissue for strength, and vascular tissue to carry materials from one part of the tree to another. For most trees it is surrounded by a layer of bark which serves as a protective barrier. Below the ground, the roots branch and spread out widely; they serve to anchor the tree and extract moisture and nutrients from the soil. Above ground, the branches divide into smaller branches and shoots. The shoots typically bear leaves, which capture light energy and convert it into sugars by photosynthesis, providing the food for the tree's growth and development.

Trees usually reproduce using seeds. Flowers and fruit may be present, but some trees, such as conifers, instead have pollen cones and seed cones. Palms, bananas, and bamboos also produce seeds, but tree ferns produce spores instead.

Trees play a significant role in reducing erosion and moderating the climate. They remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store large quantities of carbon in their tissues. Trees and forests provide a habitat for many species of animals and plants. Tropical rainforests are among the most biodiverse habitats in the world. Trees provide shade and shelter, timber for construction, fuel for cooking and heating, and fruit for food as well as having many other uses. In much of the world, forests are shrinking as trees are cleared to increase the amount of land available for agriculture. Because of their longevity and usefulness, trees have always been revered, with sacred groves in various cultures, and they play a role in many of the world's mythologies.

-AMP

#amp #ask

[thejackmeister-mongolhistory]

THE GREAT KHAN'S PALACE AT QARAQORUM

In Qaraqorum, the Mongol Imperial capital from the 1230s-60s, the Great Khan held his residence twice a year. First built by Ögedei Khan, and refurbished by Möngke, it was in a "Forbidden city," to the south of the main city of Qaraqorum, a separate, walled-off section which had numerous secondary structures and palaces for other members of the Altan Urag and their servants. The structure was known was the Qarshi to the Mongols (palace) and also by a Chinese name given to it, the Wanangong, Palace of Eternal Peace.

The Qarshi of Qaraqorum/Erdene Zuu monastery is the sqaure at the bottom of this topopgraphic map of the site

While the Qarshi is no longer extant, we have a fairly good understanding of its position and layout thanks to the numerous references and descriptions of it in Chinese, European and Islamic accounts, and comparisons to the sites of other 13th century Chinggisid palaces (like Kondui palace).

The Qarshi consisted of a central, main hall (often singled out in sources for its magnificence and height), flanked by two smaller halls ("naves", in William of Rubruck's eye-witness description, who compared the entire structure to a church). It was built by Chinese craftsmen and this layout matches certain Chinese palace designs, though modified for Chinggisid tastes. In the Orkhon Valley, Siberian larch along with local granite quarries were use in the city, and must have featured extensively on the palace. Labourers were brought in to make dried-bricks and kilns for roof tiles on-site for most of the rest of the construction.

With the abandonment of the city by the fifteenth century, the Qarshi fell into disrepair. By the late 1500s, the Erdene Zuu monastery, was constructed on the site of the palace, likely reusing what remained of usable building material. While Erdene Zuu differs in layout, it likely offers a clue to the orientation of the earlier structure

You can learn more about Qaraqorum's role in Mongolia's production networks in my latest video on nomadic blacksmithing:

#mongol empire #chinggis khan #genghis khan #Qaraqorum #karakorum #Youtube

[immigrant-rob]

3 weeks later

The past 3 weeks have passed quickly, as one would expect when they are settling in a new country. We hit the ground running as Naomi went straight back to work and I started my online study for the physio exam I am required to take. We currently live in a tiny apartment in down town while we wait for our shipment to arrive and settle our rental contract (very exciting news potentially!). On our first weekend we went winter clothes shopping, because who on earth would have clothes suitable for -40 degree weather conditions. After a lot of good advice from the experts I left with clothes that would puff me up like a penguin, but keep me warm. Pictures below are from the park around the corner and apartment view.

On our second weekend we did the Healy Pass trial which was through the forest, up the valley to a small pass from which we had stunning views over Egypt Lake and the larch trees spread out beneath us. Days like these make me realize how lucky I am to have such nature less than 1.5 hours drive away from me. This was 2 days after the news of that 2 experienced hikers got killed in a bear attack which did make us a bit more alert while hiking.

On Wednesday we visited my first ice hockey game, from now on referred to as ''hockey''. I had to compromise on this change of naming to get Naomi to accept that ''football'' was the proper sport with a round ball, not the eggball they play here. In return hockey is played on ice, while field hockey on a pitch. Anyway, watching my first ever ice hockey game left me with mixed feelings. The first 7 minutes were great, high intensity, body slams, great feats of skill. Everything you hope to see in a good sports game. And then BOOM, lights out, everyone skates to the ''dug out'' and these ice sweepers skate onto the rink to clean up the chaffed ice. But while they do so adverts and minigames are being played in the arena. A very confused Rob was then told this was the ad break, so the tv advertisements could play and generate revenue. And this didn't happen just once, but every 6-7 minutes, for each period of the game... That's a total of 6 interruptions, without the official breaks! You can now understand that this did not fall well with a European who is used to watching a sport 45 min + extra time undisturbed. with a nonsense fluffy dog mascot entering into the crowd shooting T-shirt cannisters from his high pressure gun. It was a cool experience, but the take away message was that American sport events are more led to be ''entertainment'' events where sport comes second.

Lastly, I've already experienced how the weather can swing within a few days. 5 days ago I played my first football match with my new team (VG Legion) in 20 degrees. Within 5 days the weather has swung from that, to a 10cm layer of snow and -10 degrees. Better get used to it, at least I was on time buying warm clothing!

[unkn0wnvariable]

Larch Cone by Oliver Andrews Via Flickr: A larch cone opening up to release the seeds inside, in Twywell Plantation.

#canon #canonuk #cone #confier #european larch #larch #larix decidua #nature #nature reserve #northamptonshire #northants #outdoors #tree #trees #twywell #twywell plantation #wood #woodland #woodland trust #woods #Kettering #England #United Kingdom #flickr

[copperbora]

My customization of a Breyer Howling Wolf as my graphic novel protagonist Larch having been a great success, I'm trying to figure out what the most popular colour of grey wolf (Canis lupus specifically,) to decide which colour to paint another model wolf (1/9 scale Breyer Traditional) that I intend to sell. This model was computer sculpted by Animal Den Miniatures.

This is the model to be painted! I am thinking of selling her for $300 USD when she is done, to help me pay off some debts.

Here are the colours being considered:

Grey - European/Eurasian. Note the cleanly defined markings and bright colours. Larch's coat is based off of the European wolf because I personally find them prettier than North American wolves, but that's me.

Grey - North American - colours tend to be paler, with muzzier, less defined markings.

Black - this colour silvers out as the wolf ages until they become unrecognizeable with their puppyhood selves. Black wolves are only naturally found in North America and have a stronger genetic resistance against distemper.

Arctic White - this colour belongs solely to Canis lupus arctos, better known as the arctic or tundra wolf. It tends to get stained yellowish by the wolf's habitat.

#animal den miniatures #wolf #model wolf #wolves #canis lupus #help me pick #model animal

[lastfrontierheli22]

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#skiing

[travelnshit]

We went to this national park to look at the trees it protects, and the trees were incredible and ancient and I'm so pleased we saw them. They're the alerces trees, or larch in English, but they're not like the European larches. These ones literally only grow here in Chile and Argentina in the wettest part of the Andes. 300 years ago they logged them to absolute buggery not realising they only grew about a millimetre a year. One of the ones had escaped the logging is El Abuelo, he's the tallest in the area and, at around 2600 years, he's the oldest too. There are also lakes here and no, we're not bored of lakes yet. We stayed at a campsite mere metres from Lago Futalaufquen which is perfect for swimming in, and drinking beer by as it happens. A perfect way to wash the dust off, because our life had pretty much just become dust since we started this road trip. The campsites are all made out of dust. The roads are made out of dust. My lungs were probably coated in a fine layer of dust and my nasal defenses had gone into overdrive. You could hold buildings together with the crap I was excavating from my nostrils. It's been worth it though, even if my lungs fall out through my arse and I have to keep them in a box for the rest of my life. . https://travelnshit.com/2023/02/07/still-not-bored-of-lakes-then/ • • • #argentina #visitargentina #travel #travelgram #instatravel #wanderlust #lesbiantravel #couplegoals #travelcouple #nature #instanature #naturegram #landscape #landscapeporn #lake #patagonia #parquenacionallosalerces (at Parque Nacional Los Alerces, Chubut, Argentina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CospQwDO9IX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#argentina #visitargentina #travel #travelgram #instatravel #wanderlust #lesbiantravel #couplegoals #travelcouple #nature #instanature #naturegram #landscape #landscapeporn #lake #patagonia #parquenacionallosalerces

[basilsbook]

hello blog! first post!!

winter is my least favorite season. i dont hate it, but its rarely as beautiful as the others. when it is beautiful its truly gorgeous, but when that runs out its… not very pleasant to look at or walk in :(

however the lovely evergreen trees still let me see a glimpse of the other seasons ! i think these may be european larch trees..? im not very verses in them so if anyone who sees this knows better id love to know what they are!

thanks for looking at my picture (:

-basil

#photography #trees #fir tree #basilsbook