Eight nice plants from the lowland boreal of the Adirondacks, gathered at Heron Marsh and Barnum Brook and shot and stacked in the Visitor Interpretive Center at Paul Smith’s College with Canon lenses and an RRS tripod and head.
For you to guess, and, extra credit, say why they are what they are.
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1. Beech (Fagus grandifolia); 2. Mountian holly (Ilex mucronata); 3. Yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis); 4. Balsam willow (Salix pyrifolia); 5. Tamarack (Larix laricina); 6. Speckeled alder (Alnus incana); 7. Velvet-leaf blueberry (Vaccinium myrtilloides); 8. Sweet gale (Myrica gale)
