"the great park tree Zelkova" is how Colin Tudge describes the 欅 ケヤキ Keyaki trees. A Japanese site said this wood is very hard to chop, but it also said that YamaMomo was the toughest wood they ever split. My experience of one tree each puts Cinammon and Kurogane Holly over Yamamomo in difficulty but maybe there were extenuating circumstances, or maybe the guy writing the Japanese site had more of an urge to sell fancy axes than opportunity to build up a lot of wood splitting experience,

It's wierd to see a magnificent tree like this and think of turning it into firewood. But I've seen at least two trees like this just fallen over after a typhoon. The root bases were shallow. Hopefully this tree will be ok with the roots all tangled up in the IchiiGashi evergreen oaks and KOrogane Holly trees that surround it..

#Zelkova #HIetaPark #欅 #ケヤキ木 #三股町稗田公園

Speaking of Zelkova trees, here is an image made with Evo-Ukiyoe, an AI image generator by Sakana AI. My prompt was something like "a Zelkova tree sprouting hamburgers as fruit" (in Japanese). This is so stupid I love it :-) https://huggingface.co/spaces/SakanaAI/Evo-Ukiyoe
#AI #Ukiyoe #SakanaAI #huggingface #art #Zelkova #hamburger

I love working on a campus. The biggest perk for me are the academic libraries. Another perk - good campuses are arboretums: living libraries of trees. Reading about Zelkova trees in Japan (non-native to the US), I thought how I'd love to encounter one; feel its leaves, smell its rosy scents. As it happens, we have one on campus! https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5162b102149c401fa9ab5f42965dcf9a
#trees #arboretum #libraries #Zelkova

欅ケヤキの木だと思う。 どんぐりのイチイガシかもしれないけど、 後で確認しておきます。 団地(地域？)の公園が素晴しい。 大きい木があると落ち着く。 夏になると涼しくしてくれるからありがたい.... Thanks!!!
#三股町 #宮崎県三股町 #稗田公園 #樹木 #ケヤキ #Zelkova #LocalPark #地域の公園 #MimataTown #MIyazakiMImata #HietaPark

The rain was so fast and so much that a Zelkova tree hosted waterfalls. There first four days of July have already given us more rain than the typical month of July. i read somewhere that France, over the last ten years, had three years of that were so hot they usually only occur once every 500 years. Unusual, disastrous, weather will happen more often for some time now I guess. We need resilience, and sustainable energy. Agroecology of Catastrophe (Barbarism).
#ClimateChaos #rain #tree #zelkova #ケヤキ #雨 #温暖化 #気象 #宮崎 #Miyazaki #Miyakonojyo

Great Zelkova (ケヤキ) tree, Miyakonojyo's Agricultural High School.
"It is the light falling continually from heaven which alone gives a tree the energy to send powerful roots deep into the earth. The tree is really rooted in the sky. " --- Simone Weil in "Human Personality"
#tree #roots #SimoneWeil #木の根っこ #根っこ
#都城農業高校 #Zelkova #ケヤキ