Trees described by Debreczy & Racz as Abies neodurangesis. Last 3 photos show comparison of foliage with typical Abies durangensis from south of El Salto, Durango on road to Pueblo Nuevo.. (longer foliage is neodurangensis)
Deerfoot vanillaleaf in the Oracle sale
Plateau Alvar with numerous juniperus virginiana. At least two junipers demonstrating creeping habit which points me to Juniperus horizontalis ancestry.
However, both needles and scales are visible on this plant which points me clearly to Juniperus virginiana lineage.
This is the Texas State Champion Ponderosa Pine in Tobe Canyon on TNC's Davis Mountains Preserve. The first shot of the entire tree is stitched together (in Photoshop) from two successive images; it's always hard to photograph a big tree! In the 2nd image, that's @johnkarges holding his 42" snake stick for a measure of the tree's dbh. Note the certificate from the Texas Big Tree Registry in the last image, displayed on the wall of the McIvor Conservation Center on the Preserve. It gives the measures as follows: height, 110 ft; circumference, 135 in [diameter = 43 in]; crown spread, 47 ft.
Reederville, Washoe County, Nevada, USA
Wild to see female cones for rhe first time, which look NOTHING like Callitris. Whoever lumped Neocallitropsis is a DICK.
Small and inconspicuous trees here, none taller than two meters, could be a relict population from wetter, warmer times (hard to imagine it though, it's already hot and wet as hell)? No idea why they are not larger, but they were a small understory component of this forest.
One single plant, 1 meter high, at the edge of a forest. I assume the individual of Falcatifolium taxoides it was using as a host was the large one about 1.5 meters away, which was also the largest Falcatifolium I've seen yet (about 8" diameter trunk). Most have been scrawny. 600 m elevation.
One single 4 foot tall plant at this location, remarkably accessible. Surprised to find it here, presumably an unrecorded locale for it (did not see this location on herbarium accessions at Noumea herbarium).
One single plant, growing somewhat close to a trail and six feet from its host plant. New location for this plant as far as I can tell. Never been recorded here before, even in the herbarium records.
2 lone trees growing on the banks of the river
Not 100% on bernieri
Callitris sulcata growing on a south facing slope just above a very beautiful and blue river. Juvenile foliage looks very different, like a Juniper. Bark is distinctive and cupressoid.
Mont Humboldt summit
Regeneración de pino en RN Coyhaique
Stunted needles on a burl outgrowth
Really awesome old foxtail
Camas, with a bumblebee
Dead from the Carpenter One fire
Up into the mid-subalpine zone here, this is a theme in my Tasmanian phytogeography - flowering plants that have leaf morphologies typically associated with conifers. The iNat software is quite sure this is a Cedrus.
Whitebark pine with foxtail pine in the background, slopes southwest of Kern-Kaweah River.