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Dear All, Dec 5, 2015
To paraphrase a saying; you can fail to see a lot by not looking. The
suspect high-spirited kids are off the hook. One of these trees fell over,
last night I expect, and there is just a narrow ring of live wood <1 cm wide
the inner 4-5 cm being punky rotten. On the remaining Mountain Ash of any
size, the upper third has shed most of its fruit while the lower 2/3 still
carries a fair load. And that upper third looks weak. So the early shedding
was just an expression of tree decline.
Yt, DW
----- Original Message -----
From: "David & Alison Webster" <dwebster@glinx.com>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2015 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Leaf & Fruit shedding
> Thanks. This points to high-spirited kids as a possible cause. Many of the
> fruit were shed not as individual berries but as entire clusters.
> DW
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "F Lourie" <fm.lourie@eastlink.ca>
> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2015 1:31 PM
> Subject: RE: [NatureNS] Leaf & Fruit shedding
>
>
>> Dear David,
>>
>> The Mountain Ash trees on Commercial Street, Middleton seem to still have
>> loads of berries on them, as of this morning.
>>
>> Frances Lourie
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca
>> [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca]
>> On Behalf Of David & Alison Webster
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2015 2:16 PM
>> To: NatureNS@chebucto.ns.ca
>> Subject: [NatureNS] Leaf & Fruit shedding
>>
>> Dear All, Dec 2, 2015
>> Drawing on memory, no more than 2/3 of Oak leaves are normally shed
>> before late January and most Beech leaves stay on until buds swell in
>> spring.
>> This year I noticed >90% Oak and >50% Beech leaves shed by early
>> November.
>> Also the fruit on a nearby Mountain Ash (Sorbus) usually hang on until
>> birds get them over winter. This fall more than 80% of fruit were shed
>> ~early November; most or all of these were on the ground so likely not
>> early
>>
>> and messy feeding.
>>
>> I am wondering if this apparent change is a product of atypical
>> weather
>> or a byproduct of failing memory.
>>
>> Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville
>>
>>
>>
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