Please post a comment regarding your favorite tree: what is it and why, its scientific name, and describe its leaf shape and arrangement....My personal favorite is dawn redwood
Metasequoia glyptostroboides, was thought to be extinct until some were found in an old monastery in Asia. It has an alternate arrangement of compound feather-like leaflets. Looks a lot like baldcypress.
If the question was what is your favorite tree to cut I would have to say the great sugar pine. Pinus lambertiana. (should be underlined or in italics) It is a pine of the western states, mostly in northern California. It has acicular leaves in fasicles of five needles. When I was cutting timber for CHI, I did fall quite a few of them. It has an amazing cone. The reason I like cutting them so much is that they do grow big and the wood is soft. You have to be careful and cut clean so you don't waste any wood. They are easy to mess up on and therefore a challenge. The biggest I fell added up to 13,500 bdft and the first 16ft log weighed 22,500 lbs. My favorite tree to look at or sit under is the weeping willow. Salix babylonica. When I was a kid we had two large ones in our yard and I have many memories from those trees. I can't seem to fiqure out how to attatch a picture to this, but I'll try and add one of a sugar pine I cut in my profile.(tree porn)I didn't get a pic of my big one.
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