Tremendous Trees – The Alder

Tremendous Trees – The Alder

Welcome to our occasional series of interesting facts about the incredible trees that surround us and their contribution to our history and our landscape. Today let’s praise an unsung hero, a pioneer and friend to agriculture, the Common Alder.

Common Alder (Alnus glutinosa). Also known as Black Alder

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Copacabana beach is just over three kilometres long and adjoins Leme beach which is a further kilometre in length. There are many hotels such as the Copacabana Palace Hotel, open-air restaurants and bars along the beach front.

You can easily identify Alder with its slender shape and upward spreading branches. There are often two or three main trunks growing together. It is moderately sized, growing to between 20 and 30 metres in height, and it prefers moist places. In fact it can grow in much wetter conditions than most other native trees could cope with.

You are most likely to find it growing in lines along the edges of rivers, dipping its roots in the water. Its grey fissured bark is unmistakable, though younger trees have smoother greenish bark. You will also see it in hedgerows, and on marshy soil it can grow up as an Alder Carr, a dense thicket of smallish trees.

Chaco Canyon- amazing Anasazi ruins in the New Mexico desert You can walk along the canyon rim for birds-eye views of Pueblo Bonito, or walk inland to a pair of poorly preserved Great Houses. Unlike at other famous Anasazi ruins, such as Mesa Verde and Canyon du Chelles, the structures at Chaco are not cliff dwellings.
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