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cozzybob In reply to lustforlike [2010-09-18 07:45:24 +0000 UTC]

Aw, I don't mind if you comment on a weeks-ago picture, silly! In fact, I find it awesome.

It's called an evergreen field because the trees are evergeen, and this was high up in the mountains, where in certain places, the trees have a habit of stopping at certain lines and forming fields like this. The grass is really, really, really green (like, emerald green), but it's the only area open like this up there. The rest of it is pretty much carpeted in evergreens. Not sure why it happens... soil, air, lighting... hrm. Then again, maybe they like staying away from the water. There was a small stream cutting through, and they stayed pretty far away from it. I've noticed they don't like growing near water.

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lustforlike In reply to cozzybob [2010-09-19 08:13:26 +0000 UTC]

Those trees are really evergreen? I thought pretty much all trees with needles instead of leaves (which they look like, but these things are not certain if you're not up close) shed like crazy (Christmas trees after all - although, wait, Christmas trees are generally green as Christmas time, right? Crap, that means I should close the bracket) and are probably evergreen despite that. So. Yeah.

I don't know if evergreens in general have a preference for a certain type of soil or environment. Most of the trees in New Zealand are evergreen, for instance, and I think you'd be hard-pressed to find any in Australia that are not evergreen - you can, in fact, import some normally deciduous trees to Australia and they'll be evergreen there, because it never gets cold enough for them to lose their leaves. This holds more and more true the closer you get to the tropics, but then, New Zealand isn't tropical, and we do have lots of evergreens.

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cozzybob In reply to lustforlike [2010-09-20 09:15:20 +0000 UTC]

Haha, I think there's a cultural difference in these evergreens and yours, then. But yours does make more sense. Here, we call most sorts of pine evergreen because even though they do shed some needles, they more or less stay green all year round. xD

Pretty awesome, New Zealand is! I want to go there someday. Maybe I'll bring an oak tree with me.

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lustforlike In reply to cozzybob [2010-09-23 09:45:32 +0000 UTC]

I think you're right calling pines evergreen, I think the cultural difference is that pines are not native to my country, but pretty much all native plants are evergreens - it's mostly the imported ones that are deciduous. Pines are the odd ones out, and because they shed fairly copiously, even though they don't lose all their needles, I kind of lumped all needle trees into deciduous instead of evergreen, even though they do actually stay green.

There are some oaks in New Zealand. Oaks have a tought time comparing to the kauri trees, though - giant native redwoods. There's a big one in a national park somewhere; not quite as big as the Australian redwoods (is it the Californian redwoods that are the largest trees in the world? Redwoods in general certainly are), but pretty damn impressive all the same. New Zealand: small country, big trees.

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