Trees

[loquere]

I'm re-working a story I submitted today but am about to pull to review for a few days. I've created a university campus which has an arboretum, in my mind. It is based on a real uni but I'll never say which one.

What single tree would stand out as great when driving up to a two hundred year old gothic building?

PLEASE GOD, NO HAGLING. JUST SINGLE WORD ANSWERS!

 

[O-dad's Medium]

The Larch.

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But I'm ever so fond of contorta trees.

 

[loquere]

The Larch.

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But I'm ever so fond of contorta trees.

Thanks both choices seem to be pine. I originaly had Oaks. But Oaks can die after 200 years which some will live up to 500 years. Thanks I will go with a Pine.

 

[O-dad's Medium]

Thanks both choices seem to be pine. I originaly had Oaks. But Oaks can die after 200 years which some will live up to 500 years. Thanks I will go with a Pine.

Well if you're pining, there's little I can do.

 

[Comshaw]

Madrona

http://www.northwestarborist.com/madrona1.jpg

http://rewitzer.typepad.com/the_lonely_robot/images/2007/08/11/img_0854.jpg



Comshaw

 

[blobfish]

Huon pine.

 

[loquere]

Well if you're pining, there's little I can do.

The contorta and the Larch are pines aren't they?

 

[warrior queen]

Huon pine.

There's a stand of Huon that has been dated as 10,000 yrs old.
The stand is comprised of all male plants - Huons can send up new trees from a fallen one, so all the trees in this stand are from one original.

 

[loquere]

Went with a elm instead!