That reminds me. I went to Blue Hills Observatory open house a few weeks back and one of the meteorologists was looking something up in one of their daily journals before heading home. He pointed out that observers wrote down nearly everything in the big books, including the dates of first blooms for various plants. I thought it would make a great student project to plot the dates for the past century and check for trends. Or, maybe someone already has.
I thought this article was going to be about that awful cloud of diesel fumes that's always floating around at Back Bay Station. I can't believe the people who work there can breathe this stuff in every day. That feels like a class action lawsuit waiting to happen.
Ailanthus has earned - because of the smelly male flowers - the names of stink tree, stinking sumac. I've had one outside my house for over 50 years. I was very happy to see the winds of the weekend dispersed the flowers.
Stink tree is not a new name/nickname. We used to love, as kids, to tear the leaves from a stalk and whip it around and play at sword fighting. My sister and I would always plan our vacations around its blooming.
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Earlier blooms
That reminds me. I went to Blue Hills Observatory open house a few weeks back and one of the meteorologists was looking something up in one of their daily journals before heading home. He pointed out that observers wrote down nearly everything in the big books, including the dates of first blooms for various plants. I thought it would make a great student project to plot the dates for the past century and check for trends. Or, maybe someone already has.
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I thought this article was going to be about that awful cloud of diesel fumes that's always floating around at Back Bay Station. I can't believe the people who work there can breathe this stuff in every day. That feels like a class action lawsuit waiting to happen.
Stink Tree? Not really. They are Ailantus or "Tree-of-Heaven."
Stink Tree? Well, not really. These would be the invasive Ailanthus, or "Tree-of-Heaven."
Jonas Prang
Ailanthus is stink tree
Ailanthus has earned - because of the smelly male flowers - the names of stink tree, stinking sumac. I've had one outside my house for over 50 years. I was very happy to see the winds of the weekend dispersed the flowers.
Stink tree is not a new name/nickname. We used to love, as kids, to tear the leaves from a stalk and whip it around and play at sword fighting. My sister and I would always plan our vacations around its blooming.