Game time

what does claypa get for being right? Some seeds, maybe?

How about a cat picture for claypot? Or the whole beast?

Resin's new pic looks pinnately compound and at least opposite, if not whorled.

How about Sambucus caerulea?

VV well we need a full body view of Cercis, like we have of Smilax. For the wall above my computer. I cant have cats because my Greyhound, Emma likes to murder them. So I especially appreciate a cat that is far away and safe. Any how, back to the game.

I'm up to my eyeballs in seeds right now, but some Argan oil on pita with nuts would be good. And I'd rather have a goat than another cat, thank you, though. :)

Resin, I don't know which Hickory it is, I'd have to go back when the nuts are out, I guess. I thought you were going to tell me!

I was thinking Salix purpurea for this new picture

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http://www.freefoto.com/preview.jsp?id=01-10-2&k=Goat

Here ya go, Claypa. For excellent work.

No takers on my last pic? I thought it was going to be an easy one, it's a fairly well-known cultivar.

Resin

I might as well continue to look like a fool with guesses...... How about some type of Fraxinus?

Not a fool at all! Fraxinus it is.

Want to try and progress further?

Resin

Fraxinus angustifolia subsp.oxycarpa
A Narrow-leafed Ash from Eastern Europe

Yep!

Inevitably, the cultivar is . . . .

I can only find two, Raywood and Monophylla. I'll guess Raywood...


edit: Not Monophylla..

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Yep, 'Raywood'

Over to you for the next pic (unless David Vermont wants to and gets in first!)

Resin

He got it first, and definitely has better pictures!

Ray. Ray. Claypa. Another goat!

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=2

Here are a couple native American species. More points for proper reptile identification!

I'll try Elaphe obsoleta (syn. Pantherophis alleghaniensis; [Eastern] Rat Snake) for the snake

Resin

Okay you got the snake right but how about that bush?

David

It looks locust like...but of course I am probably way off again..

OH geezzzzzzzzzzzzz! Thanks for gonna giv e me nightmares tonight David. : ) I keep forgetting snakes can climb trees.

Maybe Amorpha fruticosa?

Resin

You're right Resin! I have only seen these bushes in the low wet areas of the Champlain Valley. I picked up this snake since it was in the road and took pictures of her as she climbed around in the false indigo where I placed her.

Sorry Starlight...... I guess you wouldn't care for a lot of the pictures in my photo library.

You just picked that thing up???

Thought I recognised "Fruity Shapelessness" (Amorpha means 'without shape') . . . it isn't found in Britain, but I saw it a lot in Bulgaria, where it is a serious invasive alien on the banks of the Danube.

What tree? . . . here's the bark for starters. For scale, the trunk is just over a metre in diameter.

Well, it kind of looks like Metasequoia bark, a bit, but the foliage doesn't support that guess. Montezuma cypress?
Mike

My first reaction is do White Cedars get that big? Probably not. But the branching reminds me of a Thuja

Nope, nope . . .

Here's the tree

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana?

Cool. Love the branching form on it. How about Cephalotaxus koreana?

Nope, nope . . .

The tree is 35m tall, if that helps (no Cephalotaxus ever got anything like that!)

Resin

Chamaecyparis thyoides?

Nope (and much too large, the tallest white cypress on record is only 27m tall)

Resin

You'll all be kicking yourselves for not getting this one . . . you've all heard of it, c'mon, you must know what it is!

Cupressus nootkatensis?

Half way there . . .

. . . . . Chamaecyparis nootkatensis?

That's just a synonym of the same thing!

You've got half of it, now what's the other half . . .

Alaska yellow cedar, Nootka cypress, Cedro giallo??? Ha Ha