Name That Tree!

10 responses to “Name That Tree!”

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   Jen C

   May 19, 2011

   I’m not sure about the red one – some kind of an apple tree maybe?

   I think your purple one is a Red Bud tree – the flowers & leaves look like the red bud tree in our yard, but ours has multiple trunks. Maybe yours was better pruned as a young tree. 🙂

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      Trase

      May 19, 2011

      Hi Jen!

      I think you are absolutely right about the Red Bud! I Googled it, and found this site, which looks exactly like the flowers, leaves, and pods on ours! Thank you!

      I’m not sure if it’s an apple tree – it doesn’t bear any fruit, as I recall. We do have some small crabapple trees elsewhere on the property, though! 🙂

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   Nadine

   May 19, 2011

   The red one looks like a crab apple
   The Pink one looks like a Judus Tree do the flowers smell really nice

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      Trase

      May 19, 2011

      Hi Nadine –

      Seems the consensus is that we have ourselves an apple tree! I’m going to have to pay better attention to the fruit it bears – the more I think about it, I think there were some sour-cherry-sized fruits on it in summers past, but our little crabapple trees on another part of the property produce something more along the size of a ping-pong ball (perhaps a bit smaller). I will be watching for the fruit to form on the red tree!! 🙂 Thanks!

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   Paul Suriano

   May 19, 2011

   The top tree is a Malus or crab apple. Usually bred for flowers and and not fruit and definitely a red bud. Crab apples are subject to fungus especially when it is wet the the spring (man do we have that), so you might want to look up some solutions to that.

   Oh, and by the way, I made Goat’s Milk Cheddar with 2 gallons of the milk and Goat’s Milk Ricotta with the whey. The cheddar will be available to taste in late 2012 and the ricotta we had on a pizza last night. The third gallon will be Feta tomorrow!

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      Trase

      May 19, 2011

      Thanks Paul – and good tip on the fungus, because I was noticing that growing on the tree, we will be looking into what we can do about it!

      The cheeses sound wonderful! I have yet to make the ricotta from our whey – I keep meaning to try and haven’t done it yet. But I really need to do it! I need to make some cheese today, so perhaps it will happen soon. 🙂

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   Tim Kelly

   May 31, 2011

   The first one is an ornamental crabapple, Malus spp. There are literally hundreds of different varieties, so it’s tough to say what variety, but most likely it’s “Royalty”… a pretty common variety. It will give you little thumb-sized apples that are edible but waaay to tart to eat. These trees are grown to be pretty… not tasty.

   The second one is an Eastern Redbud , Cercis canadensis.

   Stumbled across your site searching for a source for non-homogenized milk to show my middle school animal science kids…. any help there would be greatly appreciated… I teach in Williamston, but live in St. Johns…

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      Trase

      May 31, 2011

      Thanks for the info, Tim! We love our trees, and it’s good to know their names. 🙂

      Are you looking for info/photos of raw milk? Or milk itself? Unfortunately we cannot provide milk to anyone other than our herd owners, which requires the purchase of a share in the herd. We’d love to be able to contribute to the education of kids, but the laws are so strict and the consequences for not following them so harsh, we can’t just provide a jar of it, even for scientific purposes. 🙁 However, I can direct you to some sites that are full of great information regarding raw milk, perhaps that will be of help?

      http://realmilk.com/
      http://www.westonaprice.org/component/finder/search?q=raw+milk
      http://www.ftcldf.org/

      Thanks for stopping by the site! 🙂

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   Tim Kelly

   May 31, 2011

   Thanks for the info! I understand there are severe consequences involved with raw milk… but do the laws apply only to pasteurization or does it have to be pasteurized AND homogenized? I was hoping it would be possible to find pasteurized but non-homogenized….

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      Trase

      May 31, 2011

      Hi Tim – the laws apply to pasteurization. However, we are not equipped to provide pasteurized milk here. There is a co-op of dairy farmers called Organic Valley who produce a non-homogenized, pasteurized milk, and it appears that their products are carried in several Lansing area stores. As to whether the specific non-homogenized milk is available in those locations, I would check with them before driving there to make sure they have what you are looking for, and if they don’t, perhaps they can special order it for you? I also wonder if perhaps a health food store or Whole Foods/Plum Market location might offer something similar? Might be worth a few phone calls. I wish we could help, but we are very limited by the legal structure surrounding raw milk. If you do find some, please let us know. Are you planning to do an experiment in class with it? I remember the first time I visited England, I encountered non-homogenized milk for the first time, and I was fascinated by the “cream plug” at the top of the jug. I tried it and it tasted decadent!

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