Live oaks (I've heard them called them sand oaks) are sturdy in hurricane winds. You're not going to get one like this in Miami.
Posted on 03/06/2021 7:06:32 AM PST by Bon of Babble
Climate freaks didn’t make anyone remove palm trees.
Submission to climate freaks removed the trees.
A simple F off would have solved the climate freak issue.
Gee, don’t trees an such eat carbon? And carbon is bad, right? Sounds like a win, win to me.
Tropical culture appropriation?
why either/or??? Why not find suitable locations around town and plant the other CO2 trees??
“Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?”
LOL
Trees block 5G signals. I have to wonder if the rollout is driving this tree removal agenda. If the trees are immediately replaced, then that’s not the case, but who knows?
African swallows?
Do we have those in Florida?
I’m sticking with the coconut migration theory?
” In fact, they’re botanically classified as a grass and not a tree.”
“Kingdom Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class Liliopsida – Monocotyledons
Subclass Arecidae
Order Arecales
Family Arecaceae – Palm family”
They are PLANTS! NOT trees.
Ya don’t know, what ya don’t know.
https://plants.usda.gov/java/ClassificationServlet?source=display&classid=Arecaceae
Is that why there’s all this purchasing of vast amounts of timberland around the country?
“Climate freaks force Miami Beach to remove over 1500 iconic Palm Trees…”
Forced? How? Doesn’t anybody (besides me) remember how to say FU?
OOPS!
Upon further examination, I discovered that MAPLE trees are also PLANTS!
OMG, if I understand correctly...these palms will end up in the backyard of someone’s luxury estate?
I suppose they have to accommodate all of the wealthy New Yorkers who’ve moved there.
This story makes me sad on so many levels.
Not the least of which is that Florida was my second home growing up.
And the windmills that kill a lot of birds.
At one time the Pioneer Family Matheson owned the Island known as Key Biscayne and donated their 975 acre “coconut plantation” to Dade County, in exchange to have a causeway built to the island.
Today that island has a heck of less palm trees!
I have fished a swam there prior to the Rickenbacker Causeway!
May I suggest the tree, Metopium brownei (also known as chechem, chechen, as a replacement if they do remove the palms!
“Uh... Which is the State of Florida’s land grant University?
U of Florida, FSU, or some other?”
Florida has two land-grant universities: Florida A&M and the University of Florida.
https://nifa.usda.gov/land-grant-colleges-and-universities
“ They get carried by swallows as well.”
African or European?
P
African or European swallows?
And what is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Live oaks (I've heard them called them sand oaks) are sturdy in hurricane winds. You're not going to get one like this in Miami.
non-native Australian pine on Sanibel Island were wiped out by hurricane.
For me the next question is....How long is it going to take for the shade trees to be mature enough to reach the stated goal? The trees they want to plant do grow like weeds. They take years, a lot of them, to grow. What about the root systems? If I’m not mistaken roots for oaks spread out quite a bit, tearing up all sorts of concrete, etc. But, then again, the liberals have thought all of that through, right?
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