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Lou Meyer

Sep 17, 2026

7:17
aid kit
7:17
handy.
7:19
Like I say, the Latin name is Maclura Pomifera, which is one of my all-time favorites.
7:26
Maclura.
7:27
And if it sounds Scottish to you, it's by design.
7:30
So William Maclure Pomifera.
7:32
was a Scottish American geologist, Scottish born American geologist who lived in the late 1700, early 1800s.

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13:01
There's no raking a big thing like that.
3:54
It's one of those trees where I don't think you need to do a lot of ID work on.
3:59
No.
4:00
Typically, when we see them in the landscape, so just to give you an idea, they're...
4:05
They're a deciduous tree.
4:07
They're 80 to 100 feet tall.
4:08
That's a super tall tree, but usually they're in that 40 to 60 foot range.
4:14
Two to five foot diameter.

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11:52
I know what it looks like, but kind of explain what a catkin is.
10:06
Whereabouts in the landscape does it like to grow?
10:11
Uh, you can put it pretty much anywhere.
10:12
These are great street trees.
10:13
They're tolerant of drought.
10:15
They're tolerant of poor soils.
10:17
So it's a really good park tree for inner cities.
10:21
One of the other neat things too, um, there is a professor at North Dakota State University named John Ball, and John is a le- or Dr.
12:46
What, uh, what's a fall color like on the tree?

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