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Post by genesis273 on Nov 20, 2019 13:33:54 GMT -5
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Post by huntsemall on Nov 20, 2019 13:42:01 GMT -5
sycamore
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2019 13:57:36 GMT -5
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Post by iceman10 on Nov 20, 2019 14:04:06 GMT -5
Yep 👍
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Post by genesis273 on Nov 20, 2019 14:11:14 GMT -5
Thanks
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Post by featherduster on Nov 20, 2019 15:48:22 GMT -5
Not far from your home is the Grand Kankakee County Marsh right at I-65 and the Kankakee River.
Walk the North levee east from the boat launch for approx. 1 mile to where the river makes a bend there is a Sycamore you and a friend won't be able to put your arms around.
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Post by esshup on Nov 20, 2019 18:28:11 GMT -5
The bark looks like that because the tree "breathes" thru the bark and the impurities in the air are caught in the bark and sloughed off as the tree grows. At least that's what I was told.
Those seed "balls" aren't fun to walk on barefoot.............
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Post by gumbootbill on Nov 20, 2019 18:44:43 GMT -5
Blue herons like sycamore trees to nest in.
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Post by Russ Koon on Nov 20, 2019 19:06:27 GMT -5
I've always liked the sycamores for their fall colors. The maples and some others are more spectacular, but the sycamores always have some beautiful more subtle colors, and they are complimented by the interesting varieties of their bark.
They are treacherous to put a stand in, though. Their branches tend to remain attached loosely at the trunk, until some unsuspecting bowhunter steps on one in climbing the tree, or throws a rope over one to haul up a rope ladder and gets it caught in the crevice where the branch meets the trunk.
The one that taught me that lesson is east of Monroe Reservoir on the upper Salt Creek, but it might have been cut down about thirty years ago if I'd had an axe with me.
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Post by genesis273 on Nov 20, 2019 22:49:58 GMT -5
We'd love to have a few in the yard.
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Post by genesis273 on Nov 20, 2019 22:52:19 GMT -5
Not far from your home is the Grand Kankakee County Marsh right at I-65 and the Kankakee River. Walk the North levee east from the boat launch for approx. 1 mile to where the river makes a bend there is a Sycamore you and a friend won't be able to put your arms around. I'll have to go on a little walk about up that way and take a look at it. |
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Post by chewbacca on Nov 21, 2019 7:53:51 GMT -5
Sycamores seem to thrive in marshy, swampy areas. The one property I hunt is an old river bottom that usually floods at least a couple times each year and it is loaded with beautiful sycamores. It is one of my favorite trees.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2019 8:07:15 GMT -5
The American Sycamore is known as the #1 most massive tree in Eastern USA, but not the tallest with huge leaves.
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Post by parrothead on Nov 21, 2019 8:09:27 GMT -5
Do not plant one in your yard unless you like raking and picking up things. I had a huge one cut down in back yard years ago. After every storm there would be bark, balls and leaves everywhere. It was the worse.
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Post by greghopper on Nov 21, 2019 8:18:37 GMT -5
Do not plant one in your yard unless you like raking and picking up things. I had a huge one cut down in back yard years ago. After every storm there would be bark, balls and leaves everywhere. It was the worse.  ..... been thinking that after reading the first post! Them trees can be a PITA when the leaves fall. |
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Post by Pinoc on Nov 21, 2019 9:14:40 GMT -5
A massive Sycamore saved our house from a Beech tree when a tornado came through years ago. That tree had a bow in it until it finally had to be cut down.
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Post by boman on Nov 21, 2019 9:40:22 GMT -5
Just south of Logansport there's a row of really large sycamores on each side of hwy 421 where it crosses deer creek that sprouted from the original corduroy road. pretty cool if your into history as I am.
Steve
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Post by jbird on Nov 21, 2019 15:52:07 GMT -5
Sycamore trees LOVE water and provide the largest leaf of any native tree in the state. They get large and the wood doesn't burn very well at all. Trees drop lots of leaves, seed balls, bark and even limbs which do not break down very easily because of the way the wood repels water. I avoid them for stands because they tend to have more of a skin vs a bark and anything the stand needs to grip the tree can easily slip.
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Post by 36fan on Nov 21, 2019 21:19:45 GMT -5
What kind of tree is this? The leafs are about the size of a paper plate.    Do you live in Indiana? ? ? ? ? Ever heard of the Indiana State University Sycamores?  |
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Post by ms660 on Nov 21, 2019 23:11:43 GMT -5
For some reason, mushrooms grow around sycamores. Not all of the sycamores but some, for reasons I can't explain. At least in the Pike and Warrick county spoil banks. 99% of the mushrooms I find are under sycamores
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