This Week's Tour...
...met at 9:00AM Saturday in front of Inman Perc coffeeshop (240 North Highland Ave NE). We walked for 1 1/2 hours, covering 1 mile of the Beltline, ending at Ponce City Market.
"The Tourists"...
A rainy day and a hardy soul! Perfect Trees Atlanta docent candidate!
Tree of the week...
...is the Eastern Cottonwood. This older specimen wasn't planted by Trees Atlanta; it found ideal growing conditions in the wet soil near Freedom Parkway:
"It needs bare soil and full sun for successful germination and establishment; in natural conditions, it usually grows near rivers, with mud banks left after floods providing ideal conditions for seedling germination; human soil cultivation has allowed it to increase its range away from such habitats."
We happened on it right during "seed" season:
"...A single tree may release 40 million seeds a season."
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