Forestry ID

[zerasaw]

No, sorry, but close.

[CulturallyScientific]

A shot in the dark (but more guess-able, now that some choices have been eliminated) (Click to Show Hidden Text)

Loblolly Pine?

[zerasaw]

Yep.

[zerasaw]

The clumping at the end of the branch is very distinctive of that group (Loblolly, Pitch, Shortleaf, Longleaf)

[CulturallyScientific]

Thanks! Please don't double-post, though.

ID with scientific name: (Click to Show Hidden Text)

[img]http://www.cirrusimage.com/Trees/redbud_900.JPG[/img]
1. List two types of parasitic insects (general common names are fine) that this tree hosts.
2. Name three types of wildlife (again, general common names are fine) that browse on this tree's seeds.
3. This tree's bark can be used in the treatment of:
     a) Influenza
     b) Dysentery
     c) Shingles
     d) Heart disease

[zerasaw]

{this is all judging from observations in my backyard} (Click to Show Hidden Text)

{Cercis canadensis
Asian Longhorn Beetle, Emerald Ash Borer?
Black-capped Chickadee, House Sparrow, Eastern Red Squirrel
b. Dysentery}

[CulturallyScientific]

Insects are slightly off (you didn't need to be that specific- I found that wood, seed, and phloem borers, as well as the redbud leaffolder, were parasites of this tree), but everything else is fine- your turn to post!

[zerasaw]

This one??

[inluvwyth_WANTED]

Tanoak???

[zerasaw]

Yeah. Lithocarpus densiflorus it is. I had that on my forestry test just recently.

Questions:
What disease was discovered via this tree in 1995?
What other, unrelated tree in similar habitat has also been linked to the same disease?