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Amur Maple (Acer ginnala)Observer
frontyardscientistDescription
This species adaptability is undeniable. It can grow into a low shrub on rocky soils and under shade or a small tree on rich soils and in the open
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Chinese White Poplar (Populus × tomentosa)Observer
alexandre_bergeronDescription
Immense colonie clonale envahissant un champs en jachère. Remarquez le dense tomentum blanc de ses feuilles et la présence de glandes à la jonction entre le limbe et le pétiole. Spécimens récoltés.
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Hackberries (Genus Celtis)Observer
wildniagaraDescription
Google lens identifies this as a sugar berry. I thought it was a dwarf hackberry. Historical settlement area on Niagara escarpment.
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Common Hackberry (Celtis occidentalis)Observer
akekoaDescription
Tree was huuuuge. The leaf close-up is from a seedling at the big tree's foot.
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Red-legged and Migratory Grasshoppers (Complex Melanoplus sanguinipes)Observer
frontyardscientistDescription
This one has a purple gown!
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Red-legged and Migratory Grasshoppers (Complex Melanoplus sanguinipes)Observer
frontyardscientistDescription
What a stunning grasshopper but wtf is at the tip of its abdomen. On Viburnum opulus
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Bixby's Walnut (Juglans × bixbyi)Observer
mattirelandDescription
Butternut hybrid - not sure how to classify it using iNat
Hybrid Characteristics:
Green twigs
Elongated lenticels
Top of leaf scar notched
Light brown pith
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Bixby's Walnut (Juglans × bixbyi)Observer
t_knightDescription
Hybridity confirmed by genetic testing.
Leaf scars "V" notched at apex, pith tan coloured, many lenticels elongated, twigs tan, young twigs and rachis very hairy.
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Hard Maples (Complex Acer saccharum)Observer
sam10turnerDescription
Sugar maple shape but underside pubescent
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Rhizomatous Knotweeds (Genus Reynoutria)Observer
laurahqDescription
Flowers when it has climbed up something and is in the sun. Smothers things it climbs like a blanket. Roots are like a web. Can climb at least to top of thirty foot tree. Mature leaves can be at least 6-7” long.
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Railway-yard Knotweed (× Reyllopia conollyana)Observer
jamie-aaDescription
...and only a mere 9 months after asking it to be added to this site!
this plant is the original Haringey Knotweed in Railway Fields - as far as I can tell, this one is the type specimen. it's looking worse for wear and old conservation documents list note it fighting brambles and ivies, as well as being shaded by the white poplars.
the shape is clearly intermediate (long and pointed like Russian-Vine, a fairly flat sinus like Japanese Knotweed) and has zig-zag stems like much of the dock family. It's looking miserable though, barely up to knee height, yellowed, little new growth - I'm not sure if it's like this every year or not. this is surprising to me, given how ridiculously vigorous it's two parents are!
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Bohemian Knotweed (Reynoutria × bohemica)Observer
aleksandr_levonDescription
Reynoutria ×bohemica Chrtek & Chrtková
genus tag: T00046
species tag: T00925
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Moravian Knotweed (Reynoutria × moravica)Observer
michal_hronesDescription
Type locality
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Swamp White Oak (Quercus bicolor)Observer
frontyardscientistDescription
So exciting! This is the second wild Q. bicolor I find and it's tall and healthy, unlike the previous specimen whose trunk had been snapped in half by a large branch. I will notify the municipality of Beloeil about this tree
🔴 87.8 cbh
🟡 56.5 cbh
🟢 25.5 cbh
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Hololepta aequalisObserver
frontyardscientistDescription
Easily the most captivating beetle I've ever seen! It looks like a pool of mercury on this Arctium leaf
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Moravian Knotweed (Reynoutria × moravica)Observer
pastabaumDescription
pictures of the upper side of leaves from the main stem
more pictures:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?verifiable=any&place_id=any&field:Observation%20group=234993477
main discussion:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/234993477
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Rhizomatous Knotweeds (Genus Reynoutria)Observer
cah272Description
Unclear if this was planted or came up naturally. In a kind of abandoned median.
