Phenology exercise Feb 12

Whoops, after looking at other users in the group I realized I somehow missed the "make a journal posting" about the previous homework's rather than just tagging them. So here goes...

The entrance to a tiny park is right next to my house, called Garber Park. I climbed up in the mud to have a look for some taxa up there as I'd never been before. These plum tree (?) flowers were flowering all over the place! Little white flowers blowing around and on the ground. The buckeye was what I chose as a leafing out plant, these look much cooler when they are just beginning to "sprout" rather than when they're fully green. The branches are like long little arms holding plants on the ends.
There were lots of oak trees that were green because they are green all year long, but the one I've posted was not. There were quite a few of these and all tilted down hill in what looked like a previous landslide (caused a shady area, also spotted first fungi taxa!). Then lastly there were a lot of bare twiggy pushes around but I chose one that was thorny and different than the rest -- someone tagged it as a currant? But I am not sure. Perhaps I will go back soon and look at how it's doing and find out. However, seeing as flowering plants often times have thorns I am guessing it was a bare flowering plant.

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