Yahoo: If it smells like fish in Denver, it might be from this blossoming tree
If it smells like fish in Denver, it might be from this blossoming tree
Yahoo: Bradford pear trees look pretty and smell like rotten fish. They're also illegal. But why?
Bradford pear trees look pretty and smell like rotten fish. They're also illegal. But why?
Austin American-Statesman on MSN: Bradford pears look pretty but smell like rotten fish. Should Texas ban the invasive tree?
Bradford pears look pretty but smell like rotten fish. Should Texas ban the invasive tree?
We should start with the thing that makes most people aware of the Bradford pear: its smell. People tend to step coyly around the tree’s unique odor: it’s been described variously as “funky” ; “fishy” ...
When the Bradford pear trees are in bloom in early spring, you pretty much can't miss them; you see the lovely white blossoms on trees everywhere - and you smell that not-nearly-so-lovely fishy odor ...
Interior Alaskan forests have only six native tree species: white spruce, black spruce, quaking aspen, balsam poplar, larch (tamarack) and paper birch. Northern Canadian forests have all of those, plus jack pine, balsam fir and lodgepole pine. Since northern Canada and interior Alaska share the same grueling climate and extremes of daylength, why are the Canadian tree species absent from ...
It is common for people in interior Alaska and corresponding areas of northwestern Canada to use the name cottonwood when referring to one widespread variety of deciduous tree.
A tree's age can be easily determined by counting its growth rings, as any Boy or Girl Scout knows. Annually, the tree adds new layers of wood which thicken during the growing season and thin during the winter. These annual growth rings are easily discernible (and countable) in cross-sections of the tree's trunk. In good growing years, when sunlight and rainfall are plentiful, the growth rings ...