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Cornichão (Lotus corniculatus)Observador
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Growing on a frequently mowed roadside.
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Little weed tree at the edge of a road, photographed over several days.
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Arctium minusObservador
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Destroyer of sweaters.
The last photo is of a seedling, derived from the plants pictured, photographed a couple of months later.
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Quercus × columnarisObservador
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Quercus palustris × rubra, growing with both parent species, which are common at this location.
The last three photos are of fruit from (1) Q. palustris, (2) hybrid, and (3) Q. rubra at this site.
My thanks to Albert Garofalo for showing me this woodland.
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Oxydendrum arboreumObservador
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Enormous tree for this species, perhaps 60ft tall and 2ft DBH. If it hadn't been flowering, from a distance I might have thought it was an old oak. Last year's infructescence collected off the ground beneath the tree.
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Growing in a very dry, frequently mowed roadside lawn.
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Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)Observador
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Germinating as weeds in garden beds and sometimes lawns, usually persisting for up to a couple of years, until they get weeded or mowed out of existence.
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Zanthoxylum simulansObservador
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Old, cultivated tree, possibly planted over a century ago (as were many of the plantings in this area of the arboretum). Trunk and bark photos (last five) from February 2018.
