Posted by Gus on 11/6/2008, 10:00 pm, in reply to "Re: 1 combo picture, and temptative ID as E. camaldulensis"
83.45.72.114
Don't worry Walt, it has happened to me more many times! 
This "tree hunting" is like hunting pheasants. You cannot expect to catch them all the first day! Many times it is not easy to see the small things, not until you have some experience.
Once I was trying to glimpse the top crown of large trees to find the seed pods (with binoculars) so I could confirm an ID. This lad walking the nearby road said something like "there are no birds in eucalypt forests, you waste your time". As soon as he said that, some perched ones started to tweet. I was very fond. A tree identified, and a myth destroyed in just 1 minute
About the photo compositions, responses and links, I just try to share some sort of method I have been using for years, and which works quite well for me. Just in case it can be useful to you, or to any other reader arriving to this place Eucalyptus botany is not impossible. It is complex. But all of us overseas have it way easier than the good folks in Australia. That's where the true experts are, and they are few.
The more you know about these trees, the more you learn to respect them as one of the most amazing and diverse beings in the plant kingdom. Which is surely good in these days of "alien invasive species" generalised and misguided thinking.
Message Thread:
« Back to thread