Tuesday 3 December 2013

Larch

During the summer months you can walk past coniferous trees not differentiating between the wide variety of species found throughout the forest. It's not until the fall and winter that I remember that not all the needled trees are evergreen and that we have a lot of Larch in the forest; both young tightly planted plantations and the more mature thinned plantations as well as a some fine specimen trees. The Larch Larix deciduav can grow into a tall straight tree some 45m high with a 2m diameter trunk.  The wood of the Larch is much priced in yacht construction for its toughness and durability as well as being popular for fence building and is a favorite of Bonsai creators.

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