Wednesday, September 4, 2013

HUISACHE TREE FOLLOWUP

While I'm on vacation, this is a repost of a popular, earlier entry in the blog that I thought I'd share with new readers.  It's such a pretty tree, it deserved a second mention.  Be sure and click on the link in the first sentence where I posted about all it's uses.  Pretty neat.

It was originally published 04/01/2012.  Enjoy!

Huisache Tree up close
As promised, I went over to see the Huisache tree I blogged about HERE.  While walking toward the one I saw, I found that we have more than just one or two.  I counted six of the trees while on my walk.  So here are a couple of them up close.  The flowers, as you can see, are very unusual, little puffballs of yellow.  As I pulled some off, I noticed they are also somewhat delicate.
Another Huisache tree
Here is another one of the trees, different from the one I photographed last time.  It's a nice size and there is this great little meadow in a clearing right around it.  I think I see a future picnic, dining site, ha.
Huisache flowers
The leaves are very fern like which is kind of cool.  But every single one of those flowers has a tiny little thorn right next to it.  Not very easy to harvest the flowers.
Hundreds of Huisache blooms
As for the scent that I mentioned, it's hard to describe.  It sort of reminded me of a pipe tobacco that my Dad used to smoke.  Kind of sweet and yet smokey.  It wasn't as sweet as I thought it was supposed to be, but it was still 'familiar'.  Kind of interesting, in that it's still used as a scent in perfumes today, maybe that's the reason for the familiarity? I can see though how it would be expensive as a fragrance ingredient due to the difficulty in harvesting.  Bottom line, it's a cool tree to have and we have at least six of them growing wild on the property.


Maybe next year I can work on some of the old home remedies/uses I blogged about in that first entry.


Hope you enjoyed the tour!

10 comments:

  1. I love how there are so many surprises to discover in this world and I have really enjoyed this post about an amazing tree I've never heard of. I am planning to organise a yarn bomb of a local park in July (I'm having a show of artwork there). My idea is for people to make pompoms to hang from the trees. Nature does it best of all!

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    1. I coudln't have said it better. Nature always seems to know how to it best. Now i have to admit, a yarn bomb of a park sounds like fun! Too cool. I bet it will be so pretty with the pom poms hanging from all the tree limbs. How exciting.

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  2. My allergies are going wild just looking at it!!! Hope it makes many wonderful memories for you.

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    1. Ha! So true. But I'm lucky, never really been allergy prone and I was right up in the middle of all this and never sneezed once or got a stuffy nose, so I'm grateful for that!

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    1. It's just so pretty. I wish it was like this year round, or at least for longer than a month, ha.

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  4. Love how bright and cheary they look!

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    1. You know it's funny, when I walked up on them, all the yellow did make me smile. Funny how a color can do that. :-)

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  5. The flowers are lovely, but the leaves are fantastic! It must be an impressive sight when a light breeze wafts through it.

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    1. Hi Michael! yes, the leaves are awesome. It's pretty cool to see in person. They day I took these photos there was a slight breeze and the leaves seemd to flutter. The scent was pretty neat too.

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