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  • The bark on young trees is smooth and white to greenish or dark grey, and often has conspicuous lenticels; on old trees, it remains smooth in some species, but becomes rough and deeply fissured in others.

    Learn something new every day. In America the dominant species of poplar are grandidentada (big tooth) and tremuliodes (quaking), both of which maintain smooth bark into maturity. I also learned that the crowns of those (likely black) poplars is 35m up, so we absolutely aren’t seeing leaves from the trucks pictured. The maple leaves in the picture are likely from understory saplings or sub dominant mature trees.


  • Tree guy, pretty sure those are all maple. Poplar have pinate leaves with a serated edge, the leaves in the picture appear to have 3 lobes. Also poplar bark is rather smooth, while maple species frequently develop that furrowed bark pattern when they mature. These look to be more than 50 but less than 100 years old based on diameter at breast height.


















  • JoeBigelow@lemmy.catome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    12 days ago

    And it totally sucks for those of us that do really love the experience of driving. O8 was the last year Subaru used a mechanically linked clutch with real force, after it became a soft little lever you moved an inch to get neutral. Then they got rid of it all together. If a manufacturer produced a $20k sub 3000lbs 4 cyl that’s fun to drive with a true mechanical clutch and as few computers as possible, I would get a loan for one. Used options are getting limited and in worse and worse condition.


  • JoeBigelow@lemmy.catome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    I drive an 06 Forester manual when I’m not using the work truck. It’s my baby NA wrx with a wagon back lol. After a day of hauling the trailer around with an f350 it feels like a little sports car, and now that it’s not my daily I wind that little bitch way up before I shift now.