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Mahtomedi, Minnesota, United States
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Mahtomedi, Minnesota, United States
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Mahtomedi, Minnesota, United States
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Larix occidentalis. Larch are deciduous conifers,something of an oddity,and they change brilliant golden in the autumn,as this young tree here was,but I am afraid I missed the main show by a week or two :-(
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This is a good example of the different stages of tamarack or larch trees losing their needles. (they are the yellow ones). They are a deciduous conifer that lights up our Montana forests this time of year as they turn brilliant yellow, then brown, then drop the needles.
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Thompson Falls, Montana, United States
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Hesteridning i Terelj Nasjonalpark.--Horse riding in Terelj National Park.
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Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia
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2010.04.09 Lower Austria, district Neunkirchen, Rax northern flank/Wachthttlkamm (~1050 m AMSL).Cones on twigs which don't yet show any young growth.German name: Europa-Lrche
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2010.04.09 Lower Austria, district Neunkirchen, Rax northern flank/Wachthttlkamm (~1080 m AMSL).Habitus shot before needles begin to grow (at this altitude, and this time of year, snow just has molten and there's not yet any young growth).German name: Europa-Lrche
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Piovene Rocchette, Veneto, Italy
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Piovene Rocchette, Veneto, Italy
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2010.04.09 Lower Austria, district Neunkirchen, Rax northern flank/Wachthttlkamm (~1060 m AMSL).Habitat shot of a typical Eastern Limestone Alps mountain forest; species indicated through notes in the picture.Note that neither of the Pinus species grow up straight, they're all leaning away from the dominant wind direction (which is west, so they lean eastwards), and while Larix likes to grow straight in favourable habitats it doesn't do so here.Only Picea abies grows straight upwards - they even do so in the fiercest wind, and if by chance they get knocked over at an angle but survive they'll re-orientate their growth direction at the peak, again straight upwards.That dead one left-front in the photo should have been P. nigra.
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2010-11-09 Burgenland, district Mattersburg (Rohrbacher Wald, 390 m AMSL).Treetops.The broadleaf tree to the right is an oak (Quercus), either Qu. petraea or Qu. robur.
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Canton de Valais, Schweiz
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2010.04.09 Lower Austria, district Neunkirchen, Rax northern flank/Wachthttlkamm (~1070 m AMSL).Habitat shot; here you can easily differentiate larch and spruce by absence or presence of needles. Also you can see how larches tend to grow straight but not always do, while spruces have an unbeatable attitude of never deviating from growing straight upwards.
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along a street in karuizawa , mid spring.
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along a street in karuizawa , mid spring.
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along a street in karuizawa , mid spring.
