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A panoramic view from Mt Rite: on left Mt Pelmo, in
background Nuvolau and Tofane
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[ Post a Comment ]| Rick B | Dead trees? | | 
Hasn't voted | Are those dead trees? They look like the needle bearing kind (can't find the english word..), so not just autumn colors. I noticed the same thing when I was in Bormio this summer, large areas of mountain forest entirely DEAD. That can't be good...
Btw, VERY nice photo!!
Cheers,
Rick | | Posted Oct 29, 2005 8:42 am |
 | | desainme | Re: Dead trees? | | 
Hasn't voted | These are tamaracks. Tamaracks cast their needles in the fall as do bald cypresses and metasequoias. | | Posted Oct 29, 2005 8:54 am |
| | Rick B | Re: Dead trees? | |
Hasn't voted | Oh never heard of those, interesting, thanks. But still I don't think they'll do it in mid-summer, do you? | | Posted Oct 29, 2005 10:35 pm |
| | Mathias Zehring | Re: Dead trees? | | 
Voted 10/10 | the general term is "larch tree" ("Lärche" in German). Colors come and then needles go in October/November. I don't know what happened in Bormio. | | Posted Oct 30, 2005 1:17 am |
| | desainme | Re: Dead trees? | |
Hasn't voted | In America Larix species go by the name Tamarack- a great wood for starting a fire. I thought this was an autumn picture. | | Posted Oct 30, 2005 7:56 am |
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