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Plants, Trees
Home and food for animals, provide us with oxygen, materials for our homes, once the main source for our fires for warmth and cooking, nuts and fruit, the list of our uses for them is endless.
Forests cover almost one out of every three acres in Ohio.
Ohio is considered to be part of the Appalachian Hardwood Region based on the type of trees common in the state. There are more than 100 hardwood and 25 softwood tree species growing in Ohio. In addition to shrubs, there are more than 300 different woody species found in Ohio's forests. Some of the most diverse temperate region forests in North America are found in Ohio
Though there are a great many species, between 10 and 20 tree species comprise the majority of all trees in Ohio forests. By volume, six species groups account for two-thirds of all trees. The most abundant species are the red and white oaks, which make up almost 25 percent of the total tree volume, followed by red and sugar maple, which comprise 18 percent. Yellow poplar and hickory make up another 18 percent, and white ash accounts for 8 percent.
Fifty-nine percent of Ohio forest land is the oak/hickory forest type. Only 4 percent, or a little more than 300,000 acres, is considered pure or mixed conifer types.
The south-eastern Ohio forests in which my homestead lies in are of the oak/hickory type and includes numerous state parks and The Wayne National Forest.
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Juglans nigra, Black Walnut, (Replanted 20-3 foot seedlings April in place of dead, dying, diseased trees). (Sept 2011)
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Malus domestica. Apple Tree. Planted 10 each of 3 varieties in the orchard May 2011. (June 2012)
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Malus domestica blooming (May 2012) The first several years after planting all the blooms are pinched off in order all growth to go to the tree itself: 2014 will be the first harvest.
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Malus domestica, Golden Delicious Sweet Apple (favorite eating, salad apple); stock photo of Willis Orchard Co. of Georgia where I bought the seedlings.(May 2011)
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Malus domestica, Granny Smith Sour Apple (favorite for pies, cobblers, etc); stock photo of Willis Orchard Co. of Georgia where I bought the seedlings.(May 2011)
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