Redwood Leaves

[ysabetwordsmith]

Redwoods have two types of leaves, one to make food and the other to absorb water.  This makes sense, given that they are ecosystem engineers.  Such species often have tools that others don't.

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[acelightning73]

I would expect the fruit that grows near you to be mostly berries, and maybe apples (John Chapman got around a lot). I don't even like fruit - but the wild grapes and rasberries made wonderful jam. There were four women who had been in the military in WW 2 - two from the Army, two from the Navy. And apparently they were two couples. They build a house, and one of them built a Hammond organ from a kit, and began recording herself playing the organ and singing (usually well-known hymns) and selling the recordings. And paying local young people to go out in the woods and pick fruit to make jam. They also had a deal going with three women (a 3some) on the other side of the hill who made ceramic knicknacks, which they designed to hold jars of jam in a pretty container (you could use it as a planter after you ate the jam). Things got pretty exotic in the woods of New Hampshire :-)