Trees and Shrubs tour 5/22/2012
On a cloudy day with a few showers we started off our student led tours with the trees and shrubs group. I was first taken to look at a ginkgo tree near drumheller fountain which I never noticed before, but had a very unique fan like leaf. The speaker of this station, Sarah, also mentioned that the ginkgo trees on campus were only males, because of the fact that the female ginkgo have a bad odor. After the ginkgo we were led to an English elm tree on the side of the road by Stevens way, where I learned that they were one of the fastest growing deciduous tress. After that we visited a Horse Chestnut tree. It was about 50-60 feet tall with huge leaves. It was mentioned that the horse chestnut is a poisonous tree and has these small white flowers. After that we went to observe a Pacific Madrone. The "rubber" trees with very dense wood.
Lastly we visited the Coulter Pine and also the giant sequoia. The coulter pine was about 50 feet tall and had big needles along with large pine cones. The giant sequoia,I learned, that it has very "soft" bark compared to most trees, and has a rich dark red color of bark similar to the western red cedar.
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