In my Nature Notebook...

8/8/2012

Last week this time, I didn't know a Weeping Beech existed. Now, I have seen, not only one, but two gigantic specimen. I recognized the second by its elephant like "skin" (bark) The canopy creates a huge room underneath and the leaves were so strong and silky that we would have thought them artificial if we hadn't seen the tree bearing them.

photo Vicki Jauron, Yale Nature Walk, updated 8/2020

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2 Comments

Bonnie Buckingham link

8/21/2012 01:51:14 pm

We had two huge weeping beech in our front yard on Long Island: my childhood home. Both were a place of imaginative play! They are still there , although we moved South in 1968.

Laurie

8/23/2012 04:16:38 am

How fun to play there and what a great memory. Thanks for this, Bonnie.

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