Two of the last American elms on Nantucket. These pictures are from late last week: spring comes late to the island generally, in the cold Atlantic. Note the classic vase shape in the first image.
Monday, May 7, 2007
Two American giants
Two of the last American elms on Nantucket. These pictures are from late last week: spring comes late to the island generally, in the cold Atlantic. Note the classic vase shape in the first image.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Cedar Apple Rust
These pics are from the archive. This is the most colorful stage of the lifespan of cedar apple rust, a fungus also known to the latins as gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae. These shots are from last spring, take in the family backyard on Nantucket Island. This is one wonderfully bizzare lifeform: it has a two-year journey that necessitates windborne travel between two different species of trees: something from the rose family, often apple (malus), and eastern red cedar (actually a juniper). Here, in the island's wet, wet spring, the telial horns are blooming.
Uh, Captain, I think something's made it through the airlock....
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