Found on side of dirt road, on dry bank. Close to Cedars and Salal.
Fruits were green and smaller than tennis balls. Trunk had many small holes in it. A woodpecker has been seen pecking at tree, potentially the cause of the holes.
example of a young Malus fusca, still a small shrub. Even when a metre tall this root is substantial.
comparison of Rosa pisocarpa and R. nutkana fruit. The two plants were growing adjacent to each other.
We think it is some sort of berry bush! Have not been able to identify it, any thoughts?
Relatively scarce on Keats Island.
I talked to my grandfather. He said that this tree was already here when he bought the property (he was the third owner of the property after the building was built), and that it never seemed to grow much bigger than it was when he bought the property. He said he was not sure whether it was wild, or had been planted by one of the previous two property owners (there is wild dogwood in the middle of the forest in the nearby provincial park, so I think it is likely to be wild). He said that there had been many times over the years where it almost got cut down, but he insisted on keeping it due to it being a protected species in BC.
Mussel bed attached to the bottom of a plastic bouy. Bouy floats above massiv eelgrass bed and sand bar.