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Advice from a Tree by Ilan Shamir

Advice from a Tree by Ilan Shamir. Stand tall and proud! Sink your roots deeply into the Earth Reflect the Light of Your Own True Nature! Think Long Term Go Out on a Limb Remember Your Place Among All Living Beings Embrace with Joy the Changing Seasons For Each Yields its own Abundance

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Advice from a Tree by Ilan Shamir

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  1. Advice from a Treeby Ilan Shamir Stand tall and proud! Sink your roots deeply into the Earth Reflect the Light of Your Own True Nature! Think Long Term Go Out on a Limb Remember Your Place Among All Living Beings Embrace with Joy the Changing Seasons For Each Yields its own Abundance The Energy and Birth of Spring! The Growth and Contentment of Summer The Wisdom to Let Go like Leaves in the Fall The Rest and Quiet Renewal of Winter Feel the Wind and the Sun and Delight in Their Presence Look up at the Moon that Shines Down Upon You And the Mystery of the Stars at Night Seek Nourishment from Good Things in Life Simple Pleasures: Earth, Fresh Air, Light Be Content with Your Natural Beauty Drink Plenty of Water Let Your Limbs Sway and Dance in the Breezes Be Flexible Remember Your Roots Enjoy the View!

  2. Michael in Bolinas, CA March 2007

  3. Penstemon nitidus Dougl. Ex Benth. • Sometimes, two or more authorities are listed after a species name. These names may be separated by an ampersand (&) or by the prepositions, “ex” or “in,” or the first name may be in parentheses. The ampersand indicates that two authors worked together on the descriptions whereas “ex” means that the second author published a name proposed by the first. The word “in” is used to designate the situation where the first author wrote a section of a book or article edited by the second.

  4. RubiaceaeSub-class: Asteridae • The Bedstraw or Madder Family This is one of the largest flowering plant families, with around 7000 species, most of them occuring in tropical regions of the world, where they are mainly woody trees and shrubs. A few occur in temperate regions, when they are herbaceous. • In the tropics, many have economic uses - Coffee (Coffea arabica), Quinine (Cinchona), or are conspicuous ornamentals (Ixora, Gardenia), but in temperate areas, they are often small plants with inconspicuous flowers, or even weeds (Asperula, Galium). • Some members of the Family are grown for use as medicine (ipecacuanha) or dyes.

  5. RubiaceaeSub-class: Asteridae • Characteristics of this Plant Family: • Leaves, Stem & Roots ~ In many tropical species, the plants are woody and evergreen. The leaves are simple and usually entire, occurring opposite one another or in whorls. The presence of stipules is a characteristic of this Family. In temperate regions, plants are herbaceous, and may have 4-angled, prostrate or prickly stems and leaves (especially in the temperate species Galium). Some species have calcium oxylate in the leaves. • Flowers ~ There are usually four or five unjoined sepals, and four or five joined petals, usually borne in panicles or in congested heads. There are four or five stamens. In temperate species, the flowers are often small and insignificant, in pale colors, but in tropical species they are often large and brightly colored. • Seeds ~ The ovary is usually inferior, and the fruit may be a capsule, berry, drupe or schizocarp. Sometimes, the seeds are winged.

  6. RubiaceaeSub-class: Asteridae • Members of this Family usually have: • Many small flowers in dense clustered heads • Leaves opposite or in whorls • Stipules • Inferior ovary • and are usually woody trees and shrubs in tropical areas, or small herbaceous plants in temperate zones

  7. RubiaceaeSub-class: Asteridae • Genera in this family include: • Adina, Alberta, Anthocephalus, Asperula, Couvardia, Burchellia, Calycophyllum, Canthium, Catesbaea, Cephaelis, Cepahlanthus, Chiococca, Cinchona, Coccocypselum, Coffea, Coprosma, Coutarea, Crucianella, Crusea, Damnacanthus, Duggena, Emmenopterys, Faramea, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Genipa, Guettarda, Hamelia, Luculia, Manettia, Mitchella, Mitragyna, Mitriostigma, Morinda, Mussaenda, Nauclea, Nertera, Oldenlandia, Palicourea, Pavetta, Pentas, Pinckneya, P)ogonopus, Portlandia, Posoqueria, Psychotria, Putoria, Randia, Ravnia, Richardia, Rondeletia, Rothmannia, Rubia, Serissa, Tarenna, Vangueria, Warszewicizia, Wendlandia, and Xeromphis.

  8. RubiaceaeSub-class: Asteridae

  9. RubiaceaeSub-class: Asteridae • In Montana, we have two genera in this family represented: • Galium and Kelloggia

  10. RubiaceaeSub-class: Asteridae • Galium asparine L. Cleavers

  11. RubiaceaeSub-class: Asteridae • Galium trifidum L. Small bedstraw

  12. RubiaceaeSub-class: Asteridae Gallium odoratum (Sweet woodruff)

  13. RubiaceaeSub-class: Asteridae Kelloggia galioides

  14. RubiaceaeSub-class: Asteridae • Pentas lanceolata

  15. RubiaceaeSub-class: Asteridae Coffee

  16. CaprifoliaceaeSub-class: Asteridae • The Honeysuckle Family • Perennial and mostly woody plants that include vines, shrubs, and small trees. • The family contains about a dozen genera and perhaps 400 species, of wide distribution, chiefly in the North temperate zone, or of mountainous areas in the tropics.

  17. CaprifoliaceaeSub-class: Asteridae • Genera represented in this family include: • Abelia, Alseuosmia, Diervilla, Dipelta, Kolkwitzia, Leycesteria, Linnaea, Lonicera, Sambucus, Symphoricarpos, Triosteum, Viburnum, and Weigela

  18. CaprifoliaceaeSub-class: Asteridae • The flowers have a 4- or 5-lobed calyx, which is usually small, and a 4- or 5-lobed corolla which often forms a substantial tube. The lobes may be equal, or formed into two lips with 4 lobes for the upper lip, and 1 large lobe for the lower lip. • The 4 or 5 stamens attach to the tube, alternating with the lobes, with the fruiting portion of the pistil below where the calyx and corolla lobes originate. • The fruit, usually a fleshy berry, has 2 to 5 seed-forming divisions. • The leaves are opposite and broad and being either entire or having several lobes or leaflets. The leaves sometimes join together to form a disc around the stem (as in the honeysuckles).

  19. CaprifoliaceaeSub-class: Asteridae Lonicera sp

  20. CaprifoliaceaeSub-class: Asteridae

  21. CaprifoliaceaeSub-class: Asteridae

  22. CaprifoliaceaeSub-class: Asteridae

  23. CaprifoliaceaeSub-class: Asteridae

  24. CaprifoliaceaeSub-class: Asteridae • Genera representing this family in Montana are: • Linnaea, Lonicera, Sambucus, Symphoricarpos, and Viburnum

  25. CaprifoliaceaeSub-class: Asteridae • Linnaea borealis - TwinflowerEvergreen plant, 3-10 cm tall. Shaded and mossy sites, foothills-subalpine.Flowers pink to nearly white, 6-15 mm long, nodding, in pairs on slender stalks.Leaves opposite, evergreen, broadly egg-shaped, 1-2 cm long.

  26. CaprifoliaceaeSub-class: Asteridae • Sambucus cerulea - Blue ElderberryShrub 1-4 m tall, strong-smelling. Not too dry sites, foothills-montane.Flowers white, 3-6 mm wide, numerous in dense, flat-topped clusters, smelly.Leaves opposite, pinnate with 7-9 leaflets, lance-shaped, sharp-toothed.

  27. CaprifoliaceaeSub-class: Asteridae • Symphoricarpos albus - Common SnowberryShrub 50-200 cm tall. Thickets, woodlands and open slopes, plains-montane.Flowers white to pink, narrowly funnel-shaped, 5-7 mm long, the lobes short.Leaves opposite, broadly elliptic to oval, 1.5-5 cm long.

  28. RanunculaceaeSub-class: Magnoliidae • The Buttercup Family • There are around 1800 species in this family, which is found mainly in the colder regions of the world. Most of them are well-known wild flowers or garden flowers, including Buttercups, Anemones, Delphiniums, Aquilegias and Clematis. Some species, particularly Aconitum, are poisonous. Nearly all members of the family are herbaceous, with Clematis being the only woody species.

  29. RanunculaceaeSub-class: Magnoliidae • Characteristics of this Plant Family: • Leaves, Stem & Roots ~ The leaves of this family are usually divided or lobed, but are heart-shaped in Ranunculus ficaria (Lesser Celandine) and narrow and undivided in some species of Ranunculus. They usually arise from the base of the plant, or alternately up the stem, but in Clematis they are opposite. The perennial species form a small rhizome or tuber which develops new roots each year. • Flowers ~ The flowers may be solitary, but they are frequently in clusters or spikes. In many species, there are no proper petals, and it is the brightly coloured calyx which forms the 'flower'. There are usually five sepals, although there may be many, and they come in a wide variety of shapes. Those in the genus Ranunculus, the Buttercups, are the only ones which have a true calyx and petals. There are many stamens surrounding many fused carpels. • Seeds ~ The seeds are carried in several different types of fruit. In Actaea (Baneberry), it is a berry; in Clematis, each seed develops a hard woody coating and a fluffy tail, but in most species the seeds develop either as a globe from which they separate when they are riper or inside a (usually five-sided) capsule which splits at maturity to release them (as in Aquilegia).

  30. RanunculaceaeSub-class: Magnoliidae • Members of this Family usually have: • Five colored sepals instead of petals (except Buttercups) • Divided leaves • Non-woody tissue (except Clematis)

  31. RanunculaceaeSub-class: Magnoliidae Aquill Ranunculus sp. Buttercup Aquilegia sp. Columbine

  32. RanunculaceaeSub-class: Magnoliidae Anemone sp Delphinium sp

  33. RanunculaceaeSub-class: Magnoliidae Clematis x Nigellasp (Love in a mist)

  34. RanunculaceaeSub-class: Magnoliidae

  35. PapaveraceaeSub-class: Magnoliidae • The Poppy Family This is quite a small family, with about 250 species found mainly in the northern temperate regions of the world. Many are familiar garden plants - Poppies, Meconopsis, California Poppies, Argemone and Dendromecon. Few are of economic importance, although the Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum) is the source of opium and heroin, and its seeds are used in baking. Other species yield oils used in making soap. Most members of this Family are herbaceous annuals or perennials, but there are also a few shrubs.

  36. PapaveraceaeSub-class: Magnoliidae • Characteristics of this Plant Family: • Leaves, Stem & Roots ~ The leaves of plants in this family are entire, but often deeply cut, and arise alternately up the stem. The stem may be smooth, hairy, or prickly. The sap is a milky latex, and it is this which gave the family its name - pappa is the Latin for food or milk. Instead of the normal calyx, members of this Family have two large sepals which enclose the flower bud, and these fall off when the bud opens. • Flowers ~ There are two rings of two large, rounded petals, except in Macleaya (Plume Poppy) and some tropical species. The petals are often crumpled inside the bud. There are many rows of stamens. • Seeds ~ The seeds develop inside a rounded capsule with one chamber, which opens by small holes around the lid.

  37. PapaveraceaeSub-class: Magnoliidae • Members of this Family usually have: • Two sepals enclosing the flower bud, which fall off when it opens. • Four brightly-colored petals • Many stamens • Rounded seed pod forming inside the flower

  38. PapaveraceaeSub-class: Magnoliidae Papaver (poppy)

  39. PapaveraceaeSub-class: Magnoliidae Argemone sp.

  40. ApiaceaeSub-class: Rosidae • (formerly UMBELLIFERAE) - The Celery Family There are between 2500 and 3000 members of this family, found all over the world, but mainly in the temperate areas and rarely in tropical regions. Some well-known vegetables and herbs are in this family (Carrot, Parsnip, Celery, Fennel, Angelica) some are familiar weeds of hedgerows and woodland (Cow Parsley, Hogweed), and some are grown as ornamental garden plants (Eryngium, Astrantia, Aciphylla), although these mainly do not look like umbellifers at all. Some are poisonous, notably Hemlock. The international panel of botanists who rule on these things decided that all plant families ought to have the same ending (-aceae), and be named after a plant typical of the family, so the family is now called Apiaceae after the type plant, Apium (Celery).

  41. ApiaceaeSub-class: Rosidae • Characteristics of this Plant Family: • Leaves, Stem & Roots ~ Most members of this Family are soft-stemmed annuals, biennials or perennials, although some grow tough stems and there are a few woody tree-like or shrubby species in tropical regions. Several species are prickly (Eryngium, Aciphylla). The stems are hollow between the leaf-joints, often ribbed (Angelica, Celery), and the leaves themselves are alternate, usually divided or pinnate, sometimes very like a fern. Sometimes they may be bluish (Eryngium). • Flowers ~ It is the flowers which gave this plant family its original name of Umbelliferae. The flowers grow in umbels or clusters forming an umbrella shape. The flowers have stalks of different lengths so that all the flowers are the same height so that the umbel has a flat top. The flower head may be a single umbel or many smaller umbels making up a large 'flower'. Each individual flower has five petals and five stamens, and they are generally small and insignificant, even in an umbel. The outer flowers may have some larger and some smaller petals. They are very often white, sometimes cream, yellow or pink.. The outer flowers open first. The flower stalk arises from the leaf axil. The overall appearance of many umbels is unimposing, as they are generally relatively tall and leggy.

  42. ApiaceaeSub-class: Rosidae

  43. ApiaceaeSub-class: Rosidae • The members of this Family grown for ornament often have flowers very different from the normal type. In Eryngium (Sea Holly) and Astrantia (Masterwort), it is the large bracts surrounding the umbel which are colored and the flowers themselves are insignificant. • Seeds ~ The seed capsule in this Family is behind the petals (inferior). The seed capsule has two parts with a single seed in each part. The seeds themselves are of many different shapes and sizes. They may be spiny, hooked or winged. Some are of culinary or medicinal use

  44. ApiaceaeSub-class: Rosidae Eryngium sp

  45. ApiaceaeSub-class: Rosidae Astrantia sp

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