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Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Mon May 02, 2005 2:36 am

I'd like to think I'm a taxodium distichum

amar · Post by **amar** » Mon May 02, 2005 4:07 am

Tyghress wrote:What an utterly cool question. . .

After some thought, and knowing more about trees than the average person (BS Forestry), I would have to say I'm an oak (undetermined species as yet, but I'll let you know when it becomes apparent just WHAT oak).

1) I hang on to things long after they're useless.
2) I during my youth a lot more was going on underground than up in the light.
3) I tend to branch off into various interests that really don't go anywhere.
4) I'm a little nutty sometimes.

if i were an oak, i'd have to be a quercus alba. that's the oak they use for maturing whisky.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Mon May 02, 2005 4:33 am

I'd have to say the Colorado Blue Spruce. Growing up in Duluth Minnesota, we had several of these leviathans growing in our yard. One of my fondest memories is sitting at the living room window and watching the neighborhood Great Horned Owls land on them, bending their tops toward the ground. It was a mesmerizing sight.

BigDavy · Post by **BigDavy** » Mon May 02, 2005 5:29 am

I think I would be a mango tree. I love the fruit and the fruit is the right shape for me.

David

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Mon May 02, 2005 5:32 am

BigDavy wrote:I think I would be a mango tree. I love the fruit and the fruit is the right shape for me.

David

David, I am not certain if you meant that to be funny, but I sure got a good chuckle out of it.

BigDavy · Post by **BigDavy** » Mon May 02, 2005 6:10 am

Hi Joseph

It was meant to be both accurate and funny. I am distinctly mango shaped. (One of the huge amazonian ones. My username on the forum is all too accurate).

David

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Mon May 02, 2005 1:30 pm

Lemon. Please refer to Peter, Paul, and Mary and place emphasis on the last phrase of the refrain.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Mon May 02, 2005 1:46 pm

The Bristlecone Pine.

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Mon May 02, 2005 4:34 pm

A Birch tree so that my bark can be used for canoes and baskets.

MarkB

Feadan · Post by **Feadan** » Mon May 02, 2005 7:26 pm

Bloomfield wrote:Here's me:

Although, in real life, of course, I'm balding.

You know. Just the other day I came to your defense when sombody was saying, "That Bloomfield is a real prick!". And now this!?! Now what can I say to people

Cheers,
David

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Mon May 02, 2005 7:33 pm

Well aren't you two a prickly pair

MarkB

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Wed May 04, 2005 5:11 pm

Best wishes,
Jerry

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Wed May 04, 2005 5:37 pm

And ye will be known as the gatherer of soles!

MarkB

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Wed May 04, 2005 7:23 pm

A Sassafrass Tree - they can't decide which design of leaf is best so they put out three. Lovely to look at at certain stages of life, while messy and disheveled at others, shelter their own offspring forever... smell great when you get close enough, have therapeutic properties but too much is too much... a perfect match!

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Thu May 05, 2005 2:14 am

Clearly, I'm Yew.

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