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Pseudo Eau Claire, WI(Zone 4a) Oct 20, 2013

"Their expressive shapes speak to the inner man and the inner woman as few trees do. Seen, smelled, or touched, they will lure you from one tree to the next, no matter how rocky the ground or how strong the wind. It is trite to say they inspire. But they inspire."

Can you name the author and the trees he/she was speaking of?

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ViburnumValley Scott County, KY(Zone 5b) Oct 20, 2013

Probably John Muir and those tortuously twisted old Bristlecone Pines...

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Pseudo Eau Claire, WI(Zone 4a) Oct 20, 2013

You're half right.

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ViburnumValley Scott County, KY(Zone 5b) Oct 20, 2013

I have half a mind to agree with you.

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Pistil Lake Stevens, WA(Zone 8a) Oct 21, 2013

ok ok I give up. What is the answer?

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Pseudo Eau Claire, WI(Zone 4a) Oct 21, 2013

After purchasing P. aristata last week, I pulled The Bristlecone Book by Ronald Lanner off the shelf and blew the dust off the cover. I bought the book a few years ago, but never got around to reading it. Other than they grow in the western US and live for a very long time, I know nothing about the three species in this group of pines. One thing I have learned: no two of them ever grow together in nature.

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ViburnumValley Scott County, KY(Zone 5b) Oct 21, 2013

Good old pinetrees30!

I think I have a tome of his as well - something like Conifers of California.

He and Resin have squared off a time or two on all things Coniferae...

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sallyg Anne Arundel,, MD(Zone 7b) Oct 21, 2013

maybe those two should not inhabit the same ecosystem, same as bristlecones...

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Resin Northumberland, United Kingdom(Zone 9a) Oct 21, 2013

Quote from ViburnumValley :
I think I have a tome of his as well - something like Conifers of California.


I got it too, and my copy is signed ;-)

Resin

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Pseudo Eau Claire, WI(Zone 4a) Oct 21, 2013

Nice! My spouse doesn't know it yet, but I'll be pushing to vacation in the Sierra Nevada Mountains next summer.

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ViburnumValley Scott County, KY(Zone 5b) Oct 21, 2013

If so - get thee to Placerville, and the Eddy Arboretum.

All the conifers of western United States, all in one place...

If there hadn't been a foot of snow blanketing the place when I visited that part of the world, maybe I'd have tracked ol' Ron down and gotten his autograph too.

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Pseudo Eau Claire, WI(Zone 4a) Oct 22, 2013

Yes, I will definitely get myself to the Eddy Arboretum. This is the type of recommendation you don't get from travel books. Mr. Lanner is/was emeritus visiting scientist at the Institute of Forest Genetics, which I gather runs the Eddy Arboretum. If he's still there, I'll get you a signed copy. :)

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ViburnumValley Scott County, KY(Zone 5b) Oct 22, 2013

You da (young) man...

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Resin Northumberland, United Kingdom(Zone 9a) Oct 22, 2013

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All the conifers of western United States, all in one place...


Not quite all, Pinus torreyana failed there (too cold for it). But it does also have quite a lot of Asian rarities, including P. gerardiana and P. wangii subsp. kwangtungensis.

Resin

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