Thursday Triva

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Dale Stansbery

probably the same ones that are most popular for street names, elm and maple.

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Don Orr

One of the conifers like Pine or Spruce ?

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Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

No idea but will guess quercus?

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There's two trees that are tied...

Dale Lenz

Tommy get's part credit it's an oak. Now for the rest of the story: Which oak and whats the other tree specie.

Re: There's two trees that are tied...

Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

I'll try for Quercus Alba??

Tommy's on a roll

Dale Lenz

Quercus alba is correct. One more to go folks.

A sweet treat??

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Gary shares today's prize...

Dale Lenz

with Tommy, second tree was: Sugar maple. Thanks for playing everyone.

Re: Thursday Triva

Alex Y

probably the same ones that are most popular for street names, elm and maple

From Wikipedia:

While "Peachtree" alone always refers to this street, there are 71 streets in Atlanta with a variant of "Peachtree" in their name.[2] Some of these include Peachtree Creek Road, Peachtree Lane, Peachtree Avenue, Peachtree Circle, Peachtree Drive, Peachtree Plaza, Peachtree Way, Peachtree Memorial Drive, New Peachtree Road, Peachtree Walk, Peachtree Park Drive and Peachtree Valley Road.

Others include Peachtree Battle Avenue, commemorating the Battle of Peachtree Creek, Peachtree Dunwoody Road running between Peachtree Street and Dunwoody, Georgia, and Old Peachtree Road, which traces part of the route of the original Peachtree Trail for which the road is named. Some of these streets intersect with Peachtree Street, others are extensions of it, and some are nowhere near it. Peachtree Center is a major development of skyscrapers and other high-rises in downtown; Peachtree Center Avenue runs a block east of Peachtree Street.

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West Peachtree Street is not a western branch of Peachtree Street, but a major parallel (and unlike Peachtree, almost perfectly straight) due north/south street running one block west of Peachtree Street through downtown, and mostly two or three blocks west (due to the curves in Peachtree Street) through midtown. This was the original Peachtree Street

mn state tree

Tom Dunlap

the state tree of minnesota is the norway pine, pinus resinosa. it is NOT red pine, the less regional common name for the same tree.

at the Davey tree company hq in kent, oh they have a map made with the veneer of each state tree. when i was on a tour there i pointed out, with native minnesotan pride, that it was labeled wrong. our tour guide told me that the 'proper' common name was red pine....pffft!

by the legislation the tree is named norway pine.

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Gary Camp, Bend Oregon

On I-5 Southbound about 20 miles South Of Portland Oregon there is a walking path called The Grove Of The States. At one time it had a representative of all 50 state trees. It is a nice walk. For more info check out this website: http://blog.oregonlive.com/terryrichard/2010/02/two_highway_rest_areas_heading.html

glc