Just an urban tree ID, but hopefully I've sharpened my skill a little at recognizing this in winter.
Eastern redbud seems to grow this far north as an ornamental, but I haven't found any much farther north than Ann Arbor that are growing naturally. This specimen is an ornamental.
The seed pods are distinctive. I should have peeled one open to show you. I'll do that next time.
The twigs grow in a lazy zig-zag. Not very distinctive here, but you can clearly see that the leaves will be alternate, not opposite. You can also see in this and the next picture that they buds are very rounded, almost egg shaped.
I didn't do a good job of catching the specific things to look for when the uniquely shaped leaves aren't on the tree, or even more obviously, the pink spring flowers. But this picture does show the spots on the twigs- lenticels. And, yes, the Dollar General sign behind it. This is a planted street tree in Scottville.
I did take a picture of the bark, but I'm not even going to share it. I need to go back to this tree and find the characteristic that is distinctive and take a picture of that.
Stay tuned for more about the Eastern redbud, Cercis canadensis, in the future.
I was pretty good today. I worked on a number of things, had a Zoom meeting, started working on my next columns.
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