Rare Pine Question

[M.Green - SVTS]

I was working along side a friend of mine doing utility work for the local utility company in Maine and we came across a golden tree with no needles on it and he told me it was a rare pine tree and then proceeded to cut it down as it was within the specs that the electric company gave us. The homeowners are pissed about it, and you can't blame them but I want to know more about this tree.

It had pine bark, but it was a golden/yellow color, color was similar to a yellow birch. It had no needles on it what so ever. This was about 2 months ago.

Anyone have any idea what the name for this pine is. The tree seemed equivalent to a red birch in size and structure but it was golden without any needles. They shed in the winter in Maine.

Can anyone give me any info? Maybe a name so I can Google it and study the ID of it more so I can avoid taking them down in the future.

 

[brnchbrkr]

http://www.richsfoxwillowpines.com/...Chamaecyparis_pisifera_Gold_Spangle_2_800.jpg

http://www.richsfoxwillowpines.com/...4/Larix_kaempferi_Pendula_3_E.Wiegand_800.jpg

http://www.richsfoxwillowpines.com/catalog/

 

[Adkpk]

Larch?

 

[M.Green - SVTS]

http://www.richsfoxwillowpines.com/...Chamaecyparis_pisifera_Gold_Spangle_2_800.jpg

http://www.richsfoxwillowpines.com/...4/Larix_kaempferi_Pendula_3_E.Wiegand_800.jpg

http://www.richsfoxwillowpines.com/catalog/

The tree was of the same color that you pictured first. But it looked nothing like that. It was maybe 15 feet tall. It was almost formed like a palm tree.

 

[Adkpk]

You say it was golden but didn't have any needles. What was golden the bark?
The bark on a young yellow birch is copper. Larch or Tamarack and Dawn Redwood are the only pine like type trees that loose their leaves in the winter. More info. And you say palm like, meaning it's canopy was like an umbrella? Sure it wasn't dead?

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

http://www.richsfoxwillowpines.com/...Chamaecyparis_pisifera_Gold_Spangle_2_800.jpg

http://www.richsfoxwillowpines.com/...4/Larix_kaempferi_Pendula_3_E.Wiegand_800.jpg

http://www.richsfoxwillowpines.com/catalog/

Rich's is such a cool place, I try to go once a year just to see the cool evergreens.

 

[M.Green - SVTS]

You say it was golden but didn't have any needles. What was golden the bark?
The bark on a young yellow birch is copper. Larch or Tamarack and Dawn Redwood are the only pine like type trees that loose their leaves in the winter. More info. And you say palm like, meaning it's canopy was like an umbrella? Sure it wasn't dead?

You are right about the canopy being like an umbrella. It was definitely not dead. Did I say young yellow birch? The bark was gold, but it was the same kind of bark a red pine would have.

The tree was a tamarack. I just google imaged it and it came up exactly what we had. It just wasn't full like a regular pine would have been and it seems the bark was more rough.

Thanks for the help guys

 

[treeseer]

I was working along side a friend of mine doing utility work for the local utility company in Maine and we came across a golden tree with no needles on it and he told me it was a rare pine tree and then proceeded to cut it down as it was within the specs that the electric company gave us. The homeowners are pissed about it,

Doing utility work in the 1970's, my foreman had a larch cut down cuz he thought it was dying.

Cost the company $3000, and that's when a dollar was a dollar.

 

[randyg]

Winter larch

Was bidding a very large dead elm removal mid-winter and asked the guy if he had any other small work I might do while there and he said yes and pointed some out and then said "promise not to cut down my larch over there cuz I've had several tree guys offer to cut it down" and fortunately I'd been keeping my mouth shut cuz I was thinking surely that dead pine is chipper material . . . I got the job