Tree Type

[fajrdrako]

I got this from dargie, who is the source of many good things:

I tried "What's your tree type" at
Press Any Key and got these results:


HAZELNUT - extraordinary

Charming
undemanding
very understanding
knows how to make an impression
active fighter for social cause
popular
moody and capricious lover
honest and tolerant partner
precise sense of judgment


I like all of that, and it feels more or less true, though I'm not sure what "precise sense of judgment" means.

Following that lead I learned that there is a hazelnut fairy:






And a picture of the hazelnut leaf:

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I got this from <lj site="livejournal.com" user="dargie">, who is the source of many good things:

I tried "What's your tree type" at
<a href="from http://www.pressanykey.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/pak/treetypes.pl">Press Any Key</a> and got these results:

<i><b>
HAZELNUT - extraordinary

Charming
undemanding
very understanding
knows how to make an impression
active fighter for social cause
popular
moody and capricious lover
honest and tolerant partner
precise sense of judgment
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I like all of that, and it feels more or less true, though I'm not sure what "precise sense of judgment" means.

Following that lead I learned that there is a hazelnut fairy:
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<img src="http://www.flower-fairies-pictures.co.uk/images/flowerfairies/hazelnut-300.jpg">
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And a picture of the hazelnut leaf:
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<img src="http://collections.ic.gc.ca/sifc2/Hazelnut-plt2.jpg"> - <img src="http://www.pugetsound.org/vshrmp/Quiz/images/Beaked%20Hazelnut.jpg&gt;
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And a bit of the tree:
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&lt;img src=" http://www.bahiker.com/pictures/southbay/memorial/082800/small/029hazelnut.jpg"="http://www.bahiker.com/pictures/southbay/memorial/082800/small/029hazelnut.jpg&quot;">
</center>

or
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<img src="http://www.mycountrygarden.net/fruitsnuts/fnnuts/Hazelnut.jpg">
</center>

or
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<img src="http://www.paleofood.de/Ernahrung/Ern5ab/hazelnut.gif">
</center>

Now, do we have hazel trees in Eastern Ontario? I suspect not, but what do I know?

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So, why am I fascinated by this? Because I am really into trees. As symbols, as objects, as images, I love them. They are among my favourite things: worship-objects, more important to me than most things in the natural world.

If I were a supernatural being, I would be a dryad.

<b>wood nymph:</b> in Greek mythology, a spiritual being believed to live in trees and forests. </i>[14th century. Via Latin from Greek Druad- , the stem of Druas , from drus tree. Ultimately from an Indo-European word that is also the ancestor of English tree.] </i>
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Comments

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

I know you have witch-hazel in eastern Ontario, because we identified them with my tree book, remember? They are shrubby, with heart-shaped leaves something like the ones shown, but smoother. It is a tree with great character, one of my favorite.

Hawthorn is a delightful tree, as well. Hawthorns are masters of disguise. An English botanist once sat cataloguing leaves he'd collected; he described and identified one specimen as a certain tree, making notes that it probably occurred in a certain econiche, and then moved on to another leaf, identifying it as a different tree, in another econiche -- then he looked at the collection data on the two leaves, and found that they came from opposite sides of the same hawthorn tree. This, I like. Why be easily categorizable?

Being a dryad would be an excellent way to spend one's life. Trees as fully holy beings... yep, I grok.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Is witch-hazel the same as hazelnut? I'll have to see if I can see one on my walk today. I'm tempted to take my tree book with me, but then I wouldn't get much walking done, would I? I'd be too busy examining trees.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

No, witch-hazel is not quite the same tree as hazelnut. But, because of the similarity of name, I imagine they are related. Also, the leaves look very much alike (something I still trust, despite my tale of the hawthorn!). Witch-hazel will grow in shrub form, as lilac does, with no trunk growing thicker than about five inches; also, it blooms into flower in November (uh, in Pennsylvania it does... might be, oh, October, I'd say, in Ontario?). And you probably will not find witch-hazel in the city, unless there is a particularly delightful park/garden you can stroll through. So, on the other hand, I guess it's entirely possible. Good hunting!