{"id":11232,"date":"2024-02-02T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=11232"},"modified":"2024-02-03T18:12:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T23:12:40","slug":"botany-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2024\/02\/botany-in-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Botany in winter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I spent most of this past week at a retreat center in western Massachusetts where there was no internet service, and my cell phone service was spotty. I was staying in an isolated cabin. And there was hardly anyone else at the center the whole time I was there. Just me and the wood stove and the outhouse, and a hundred acres of woodlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went there to do some reading, but I also found time to do some winter botany. Turns out you can identify trees in winter by looking at their bundle scars, stipules, and bud scales. Then I had to learn what bundle scars, stipules, and bud scales were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There was only an inch or two of snow on the ground, so I could also look at moss. I found Dicranum sp., Thuidium sp., Callicladium haldanianum, and several others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So even though it’s winter, you can still do botany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moss growing on the bark of an Eastern Hemlock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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