Pine Barren Flora

bobpbx

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Can't say as I do know where that is Bob.I can think of dozens of spots right down here in Bevan where old roads that have been gated and disused for quite some time look like that.That appears to be high ground with pines and bluberry .Also a cedar swamp road on the south side of the Mullica river near Egg harbor City looks similar but the green in your pic looks like blueberry whereas the cedar swamp is open beneath the canopy. Is this photo down my way?

Getting warmer Al. Maybe 3.5 miles or so east of the area you live. Here is the original.

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Manantico? That was when Jessica got her head cut off by the train.


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That can't be right. Here are our tracks. We bypassed that.

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Unless you just took a photo down the path and we did not go down it.
 

bobpbx

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Here are two related plants close together. I'll bet this is a rare event. Any guesses? Bad news is a clue.

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bobpbx

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Yesterday, in Chatsworth, the flies were super-aggressive. This must be the new brood. I was hassled the entire time I was out there. I had to carry a branch from a bush and swing it around my head constantly (this works in a pinch). Usually they back off, but these flies were like kamikaze fighter pilots. They tried to get in-between the swings, and they'd often end up crashing into the branch.

I had to get back at them today, so I pulled out my old straw hat, wrapped it in blue banding, and covered it with "tanglefoot" sticky coating. Always wanted to try this. So what happened was, I'd hear them approach me, and then just as fast, they were gone. I thought maybe they got a whiff of it and took off. But no, I took it off to see, and watched a fly hit it, he realizes his feet were stuck, and beat his wings just enough to disentangle himself, and with panic and relief, he flew off. So really, it worked even better than I thought. They land on your hat more than we know, and the blue really pulls them in. Some of them don't make it, as you can see. A few of these were on their backs in the goo. They probably flipped over when they tried to untangle their feet. Good!

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bobpbx

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If you are interested in pine barren plants, or even in fire ecology, you should go the the site of the Woodmansie fire and take a look around. It is really instructional to see what a very hot fire can do to reset and rejuvenate the land. The plants rising up are phenomenal in quality. It's like they are on steroids. In particular, I recommend you stop at this spot below, park, and walk into the wet land on the west side of the road. Very cool.

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Bob, the light green plant is poison sumac?

I noticed is some areas disturbed by dumping that there are plants growing that are much different that what is native to the immediate area. Have you noticed anything different? I'm not speaking of anything specific.
 

bobpbx

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Bob, the light green plant is poison sumac?

I noticed is some areas disturbed by dumping that there are plants growing that are much different that what is native to the immediate area. Have you noticed anything different? I'm not speaking of anything specific.

Yes, and the other one is winged sumac. This is Blacks Bridge. The former owners dumped concrete there, maybe the lime sweetened the soil enough for the poison to move in.
 

manumuskin

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I knew the winged sumac and figured out the other must be poison.I have only seen it once and that was in Burlington near the delaware river.have never seen it in the Pines or perhaps just didn't know what it was when i did.I"m going to have to learn it because Poison ivy does a number on me but I can pick that out at 100 yards.
 
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