(or Marubakaido Apple Tree)

Malus prunifolia, Rosaceae Family - mid Abril at Quinta das Lágrimas, Coimbra.
Cf. Jorge Paiva & M. Lúcia Catarino, O Arboreto da Quinta das Lágrimas (Quinta das Lágrimas' Arboretum).

[Originally posted on Mar 7th, 2008]

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... "are the most beautiful, the most immediate of analogies.
[...] to rise like them, from the multiple roots to the unity of the trunk and from the unity of the trunk to the diversity of the branches stretched to all directions in space."
Jean Prieur, Les Témoins de l'Invisible (translated from Portuguese)

Fagus sylvatica "Atropunicea" (Purple European Beech), in the Leiden Hortus Botanicus - the Netherlands.

The trunk and the main branches had been all bandaged up in order to control their perspiration, because of a root's disease.

[originally posted on Feb 7th, 2008]

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The Narrowleaf Ash and the Almond Tree are already in blossom.

(Narrowleaf Ash - Fraxinus anfustifolia. Oleaceae family)

(Almond Tree - Prunus amygdalus, syn Prunus dulcis. Rosaceae family)

Mid January - Parede, Cascais, Portugal

[originally posted on Jan 20th, 2008]

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- ASSOCIATED BUT NOT LIMITED.

Along the coastal centre and southern lands of Portugal, Maritime - or Cluster - pines (Pinus pinaster, Pinaceae family) and Cork oaks (Quercus suber,  Fagaceae family) are frequently found together. This is how the ground looks like underneath them. Near Palmela, Portugal.

[originally posted on Jan 17th, 2008]

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among the most beautiful ones I remember seeing.

Common name in Portuguese: Pinheiro Manso. Protected tree under the law (Diário da República) nº 178/90, August 3rd. The information panel is about to be absorbed by the trunk growth, and the tree will be seriously damaged if they don't fast move it away.

(S. João do Estoril - Cascais, Portugal)

[originally posted on Jan 4th, 2008]

Category: THE TREE