Quaking aspen in flower (catkins)
Many trees and shrubs have dense clusters of unisexual flowers without petals but with hairs or bracts; these clusters are called "catkins." This mode...
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Many trees and shrubs have dense clusters of unisexual flowers without petals but with hairs or bracts; these clusters are called "catkins." This modest-sized aspen tree is in a spot both wet and warm, and has flowered before others in the vicinity. Here the catkins are back-lit by the sun against a burned-over slope now covered with shrubs that have not leafed-out yet.
When this caught my eye, I was reminded of the silvery trees in Tolkien's Lothlorien.
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When this caught my eye, I was reminded of the silvery trees in Tolkien's Lothlorien.
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