Can we please spur carolina poplars?

[chevytaHOE5674]

I will have to keep a look out for it....I will be there Monday or Tues, is it close to downtown by the canal?
my fav. tree in Hancock, right down town.

Ha thats a beautiful tree one of many in town. The tulip poplar is past downtown a little ways. Down by the old hospital which is now houghton county medical care along the water.

 

[treemandan]

The only trees that are garbage are the ones that the owner does not want.

The climber that gaffs a trim on an aesthetic tree is a hack. The only time I will gaff a trim (using the unofficial arborist trim/prune parsing) is when it is a "line of site" hack job where rope climbing is less safe and efficient.

Really, even then they are not all garbage but there are some real " piece o crap" trees out there.

 

[treemandan]

Poplar, you mean cottonwood? Saw it down.

Not even close ( around here at least). There are poplars and there are cottonwoods, lots of variety with both.

 

[Blakesmaster]

Not even close ( around here at least). There are poplars and there are cottonwoods, lots of variety with both.

I thought cottonwood was a type of poplar, like aspen?

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I thought cottonwood was a type of poplar, like aspen?

Same genus, very wide variety in the taxon where cottonwoods are the monsters. Considered nuisance plants in some areas because the cottony seeds will drift up and many people have severe allergy response.

 

[Blakesmaster]

Same genus, very wide variety in the taxon where cottonwoods are the monsters. Considered nuisance plants in some areas because the cottony seeds will drift up and many people have severe allergy response.

Thanks.

 

[jomoco]

Same genus, very wide variety in the taxon where cottonwoods are the monsters. Considered nuisance plants in some areas because the cottony seeds will drift up and many people have severe allergy response.

Have you ever been called to install copper tubing in a poplar to redirect smelly digusting slime flux exudate away from the tree's base JPS?

Poplars seem like prime candidates for hard work in sewage treatment facilities.

jomoco

 

[treemandan]

Same genus, very wide variety in the taxon where cottonwoods are the monsters. Considered nuisance plants in some areas because the cottony seeds will drift up and many people have severe allergy response.

Royal Paulownia too?

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Royal Paulownia too?

I did not know they were allergenic, but they are an invasive species. Ailanthus altissima is bad here, in every inner city chainlink fence...

Have you ever been called to install copper tubing in a poplar to redirect smelly digusting slime flux exudate away from the tree's base JPS?

No, but I did one elm many years ago. Lately I've been able to convince people that slimeflux is better then the fungal decay that will replace it.

The only real problem is that slime flux is anaerobic, which is why alcohol is a byproduct. This can cause some callus damage, but not often.

 

[JeffL]

Why would you spur a pruning job? Thats just plain lazy and pretty beat if you ask me.

 

[treemandan]

I did not know they were allergenic, but they are an invasive species. Ailanthus altissima is bad here, in every inner city chainlink fence...

No, but I did one elm many years ago. Lately I've been able to convince people that slimeflux is better then the fungal decay that will replace it.

The only real problem is that slime flux is anaerobic, which is why alcohol is a byproduct. This can cause some callus damage, but not often.

No, the same genus. Tulip Poplar is in the magnolia family. Two types of eatern cottonwood, both the same. Giant flower bells filled with cottony dust. Heavy at the tips these trees are. Wood is variation of the same weakness and stucture although it can stay up there somehow.
All three, Aspen, poplar and cottonwood are very simular. Only thing I am allergic to is dog crap on the lawn.