Montana tamaracks/larch are turning
Oct 17, 2015 13:28:09 #
Western Montana. Mission Mountains
Oct 17, 2015 13:29:11 #
MontanaTrace wrote:
Western Montana. Mission Mountains
:thumbup: :thumbup:
Oct 18, 2015 15:33:50 #
Great shot - It reminds me that Tamerac are not an ever green - my first winter in Wallace,ID I thought the forest was dying LOL
MontanaTrace wrote:
Western Montana. Mission Mountains
Oct 18, 2015 16:03:35 #
MontanaTrace wrote:
Western Montana. Mission Mountains
Love it! :thumbup: :thumbup:
Oct 18, 2015 19:43:33 #
These so-called evergreens are deciduous conifers, whose needles lose their chlorophyll, revealing yellow xanthophyll pigments, and then drop to the ground.
Larch, also known as tamaracks*, are one of the most remarkable trees of the pine family. After the leaves of aspen and other deciduous species fade and die in autumn, the larch turn goldone of the few conifers to do so. (So strange is this transformation to some of us who did not grow up in tamarack country that I actually thought the forest was dying during my first autumn in northwestern Montana.)
http://fwp.mt.gov/mtoutdoors/HTML/articles/portraits/tamarack.htm
Larch, also known as tamaracks*, are one of the most remarkable trees of the pine family. After the leaves of aspen and other deciduous species fade and die in autumn, the larch turn goldone of the few conifers to do so. (So strange is this transformation to some of us who did not grow up in tamarack country that I actually thought the forest was dying during my first autumn in northwestern Montana.)
http://fwp.mt.gov/mtoutdoors/HTML/articles/portraits/tamarack.htm
Oct 18, 2015 22:47:06 #
MontanaTrace wrote:
Western Montana. Mission Mountains
Super images. I like both, especially #1.
Oct 19, 2015 01:13:06 #
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