UBC Accession# 21199--0463-1982 Photos by Daniel Mosquin Taiwania cryptomerioides interpretative sign
That interpretive sign talking about the still juvenile leaves though over 20 years old is from at least seven years ago. So 27 years in the ground and still juvenile leaves. This is the specimen that has the interpretive sign.
Saw one in northern Italy last year with adult foliage, and cones. The adult foliage was only in the upper third or half of the tree, which was around 20m tall.
Yes, I've been looking at the top - the photo I posted was from a top branch. I keep thinking I could be the first to see an adult branch!
Our Taiwania cryptomerioides is grown up now - with adult leaves and pollen cones. This is the first I've noticed the cones, but I don't know how long they've been there.
Keep an eye out for seed cones too later in the summer, they are very inconspicuous at pollination time.
I can't do this with a 12x zoom. Are these all pollen cones? I thought the one in the red box might maybe be a seed cone? Does anyone at UBC have a camera that's up to this? Or a ladder?
'Fraid that's just another pollen cone. Any seed cones will also be high up near the top of the tree (likely in the top 5 or 10% of the live crown).
This is from the top - that's what I was complaining about with the best I could do with the zoom. Here's the original photo, from which I cropped the one I posted.
Could be some possibles there, but nothing definitely distinguishable from new shoot growth. Seed cones will be green, and still very small; I doubt they'll be easy to spot until around mid summer (late June / July). Even in September I found it tricky to see them with binoculars on the tree I saw in Italy. Photos here (pdf, on p. 43).
I forgot that we'd already seen pollen cones, was all excited today to see them. I am never going to have a camera that will actually get these things in focus. I don't suppose the little bumps in the last photo are seed cones? The first photo is the one @Nadia White Rock took in 2017.