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Mark Seasigh wrote:
Plus, it produces flat peaches that look like doughnuts, or tires, or flying saucers, or what have you; furthermore, these peaches are super Juicy and Delicious!
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Jay Angler wrote:I can't choose a favourite, so I'll just mention one I've always admired even though it has its downsides - I think Monkey Puzzle trees are neat! (Araucaria araucana). I've planted one, but I know it won't likely fruit until I'm gone but they do produce edible nuts if you're lucky enough to have planted a female. On the plus side, the deer don't eat them. On the downside, the reason the deer don't eat them is because they're *really* prickly.
A Naharudin wrote:My favorite tree is Snake fruit, of course. I'm a snake fruit farmer by the way.
Reasons:
Pro:
- The fruit taste great
- Many health benefits in it
- Makes good/straight posts for fences due to its spines
- Good commodity, even though it's cheap but we can harvest tons of snake fruit
- We can use snake fruit to make a coffee, wine, pickled etc
- It is slowly hitting the global market
- The fruit is available year round
- It is an exotic fruit
Cons:
- Check out the cons in my homepage here Snake fruit (Salak) explained
Just let it grow already
Bryant RedHawk wrote:I suppose I would have to pick the fig as my favorite tree, they provide nice shade and good food for humans, birds and some of the four legs.
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Ty Greene wrote:
Ginkgo - Fall time the leaves are vibrant deep yellow, so beautiful
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Tj Jefferson wrote:I can't possibly have a "favorite", that is like asking which is your favorite child!
Heather Staas wrote:
When I was on acreage my favorite tree was the weeping willow. It was great fodder for ALL my livestock, shed good amts. of whips and small branches naturally to be gathered/ eaten. It was also beautiful and a great sturdy shade tree for my grazing animals. Easy to propagate as most willows are. On a small property though, I am torn between beautiful and delicious Juneberry/amelanchier grown as a small multi-trunk tree.. or nice shade producing river birch that shelters birds all year and keeps my house shaded from afternoon sun. Both leave enough filtered light to grow strawberries, etc. underneath!
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