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Butternut (Juglans cinerea)Observer
pdabellDescription
Butternut canker is mostly visible in the 9th photo.
A chipmunk scurried into a hole at the base of the tree when I got close.
With an old Buck 110 in the 6th photo for scale, and a jet plane in the final photo; not for scale. :)
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Slippery Elm (Ulmus rubra)Observer
pdabellDescription
What remains of this tree that I observed a few years ago. See https://www.inaturalist.ca/observations/86106653 .
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Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)Observer
pdabellDescription
A surprisingly difficult indigenous 'weed' to find as my family traveled east to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia within the range of Danaus plexippus with 5 monarchs from larvae to maturity and flight (see previous 3 obs).
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Migratory Monarch (Danaus plexippus ssp. plexippus)Observer
pdabellDescription
From one of five eggs collected on common milkweed plants at home in southwestern Ontario that had been cut (or otherwise eventually dominate!). Therefore, wild, captive and re-wilded?
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Migratory Monarch (Danaus plexippus ssp. plexippus)Observer
pdabellDescription
From three of five eggs collected on common milkweed plants at home in southwestern Ontario that had been cut (or otherwise eventually dominate!). Therefore, wild, captive and re-wilded?
The red arrow in the 5th photo points at one of the monarch butterflies in the 1st photo, which is also the one in my profile photo (not shot by me so it is not one of the obs photos); where it 1st flew to--to my surprise!--and briefly crawled around before flying up into the tree and....
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Migratory Monarch (Danaus plexippus ssp. plexippus)Observer
pdabellDescription
From one of five eggs collected on common milkweed plants at home in southwestern Ontario that had been cut (or otherwise eventually dominate!). Therefore, wild, captive and re-wilded?
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Oregon Grape (Berberis aquifolium)Observer
pdabellDescription
Almost 5 years since the first observation of the specimen (see 22269954). If it has spread, it isn't noticeable around it.
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Guelder-Rose (Viburnum opulus)Observer
pdabellDescription
The red arrow in the 1st and 4th photos point at what appear to be concave glands and, although the red arrow in the 3rd photo points at what appears to be a rounded gland, that is the same gland as the one pointed at in the 4th photo. That last gland, then, is not completely rounded without any indentation, as would be expected for the petiolar glands of V. opulus var. opulus.
Although I am close to certain that this specimen is var. opulus, I will perhaps only fully know when observing it again next spring or summer.
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Common Guelder-Rose (Viburnum opulus var. opulus)Observer
pdabellDescription
Although growing oddly close to the foundation of the house for a planted specimen, I suspect it is cultivated..
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Common Guelder-Rose (Viburnum opulus var. opulus)Observer
pdabellDescription
With the concave glands, narrow petiole groove and tapered stipules of V. opulus var. opulus.
