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Many oaks still have clumps of l dry leaves at twig tips. These are * reminders of egg-laying of 17-year * cicada last summer. When females 2 punctured twigs and deposited eggs, * the leaves died at the very peak of their * summer strength. Is it any wonder they have clung on? I expect a profu- * sion of new twigs with leaves in May j as the trees compensate for cicada egg-laying. I
The Flowering Dogwood I can name by it’s small size, gray bark and ■* the tiny flower buds held up to the * winter sky. Dogwood twigs also make * a delicate tracery as they get smaller * and smaller toward the tips.
The Sassafras is one of my i favorite trees, though it is seldom large t
enough to earn the name of ‘tree.’ ] Their branches grow out . from the' main trunk, almost making a 90 >3 degree angle. From their tips, the ! twigs clasp upward like skinny hands * with long fingers reaching fro sky. >
If pressed to name my favorite tree •*. it would have to be the American 2 Beech, Fagus gradifolia. Grandifolia, according to my botanical sources, ? means ‘large leaved.’ Beeches don’t have particularly large leaves when compared to close relatives. White, Black and Red Oaks so I don’t go
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