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Kentucky Trees #4: Serviceberry often mistaken for dogwood WE ALL LIVE IN A FOREST: 1) Scientific experiment . 2) Treeiffic information a tree with beautiful white blossoms often mistaken for dogwood This is Series Column #4. For Series Column #3, Click here By Billy Joe Fudge This is part two of the "homework assignment" column. You will recall that in part one I made three statements. The first was that we all live in the forest and that I was 100% sure of it. The second was that I had proved it over and over. The third was that I was going to give you a homework assignment that would help you to prove it for yourself. This homework assignment is a scientific experiment. In the scientific method, one definition of an experiment is a set of observations performed to support or find fault with a hypothesis concerning a phenomenon. So in our experiment we are going to development a set of observations that will either support or falsify my hypothesis that "we all live in the forest". Yes, yes, yes, I can hear you begging me to dispense with the linguistic jargon and to lay out the physics of this experiment or as a friend of mine with no appreciation for the sciences put it, "shut up with the mumbo jumbo and cut to the chase".
One tree that blooms in late March and early April, one of our most visible and earliest signs of spring is most often wrongly identified as dogwood. If you are driving through heavily forested areas during this time of year before the deciduous trees put forth their leaves and about the time that Redbud is thinking about blooming; you will often notice a small grayish barked tree growing beneath the mature trees. You will most likely notice because the tree will be topped with lacy white flowers. What you are seeing is not Flowering Dogwood, but Serviceberry. The fruit is a red to purple berry. It is really, really good if you can beat the birds to them. The birds like them better than we humans do. I guess that is the way it should be.You see Serviceberry in landscapes a lot. They go by a lot of other names like Shadbush, Saskatoon, Sarvisberry, and Juneberry among others. This story was posted on 2008-04-13 08:57:06
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