My wife names our trees and organizes their planting location on a regular basis because moving plants is good. She otherwise has absolutely no interest. Fruit trees? Yeah those go in the back under the shade. Right where the sun can go F itself. I'm quietly screaming for help.

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Ninja876 7 points a day ago

You are experiencing a severe form of spousal abuse and tree abuse. Fruit trees no it the sun, moved around? I never took any of my plants for a walk like a puppy...

I feel for you my friend, I really do.

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Balisada 7 points a day ago

You can't name one, but in Melborne, Austrailia, you can email one.

http://melbourneurbanforestvisual.com.au/...

They have mapped many of their trees and given each one an email address. According to their webpage it was really so that when a tree was damaged or diseased someone could simply "email the tree" and someone would be able to put the issue into the "lets get this issue fixed" queue.

But what happened was that folks were emailing the trees for non-repair type of issues and were general emails like the tree was living person, like an ENT from Lord of the Rings.

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Ninja876 4 points a day ago

I was at the beginning "This is friggin awesome! Exactly what tech is supposed to be about"

Then the bomb dropped, man people are weird.

Case in point I was part of one of the first streaming companies online (2000). We would stream wrestling as our biggest draw until we got major sports onboard.

We had an email link for "support" for tech support.

A few days before the wrestling events we would get FLOODED with support emails... Nope not for why they can't get the test stream to work. But to support their favorite wrestler. It was insane the shit these people would write.

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thesohoriots 6 points a day ago

My university also used these to keep track of pest treatment (ground wasps). They got pretty pissed when people started removing the tags because “they hurt the trees.”

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Nomad 5 points a day ago

Exactly. Or our small town does the same. Each time a tree has to be cut, they plant a new one and add the old number. So the number of trees only ever goes up, never down.

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SubArcticTundra 2 points a day ago

They should get proper ID plates with the picture and all

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iceberg314 58 points a day ago

Tree tag. I'm not a tree tree doctor, but that kinda looks like an ash. Around where I live too ash trees are commonly tagged and checked up on to monitor invasive emerald ash borer populations

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DougPiranha42 15 points a day ago

You kinda sound like a tree doctor to me…

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mnemonicmonkeys 14 points a day ago

They said they're not a tree tree doctor. They didn't say anything about whether they were a tree doctor

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DougPiranha42 8 points a day ago

How did I miss that. Sneaky tree doctor we have here.

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prex 3 points a day ago

So if a tree doctor doctor treats tree doctors, then what does a tree tree doctor treat?

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Benchamoneh 5 points 19 hours ago

It's just a tree looking after its own kind

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realworldschlitz 6 points a day ago

“He speaks for the trees! If you mess with those tags, he’ll break your fucking knees!”

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Pratai 29 points a day ago

I think that’s what note they’re in. 440 is A, so that tree is tuned to A.

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Rubisco 21 points a day ago

The botanists in the biology dept have the answers you seek. I suspect there is a map of your campus trees, and this one is on it. It's common for universities to have an arboretum on campus. Find the map and look for trees you've never seen before! I bet you can find a ginkgo or a cork tree.

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StarvingMartist 6 points a day ago

Hmm, there is a greenhouse on campus, though I suspect any tree stuff would be handled by the agriculture department, it's a ways off of campus cause farms

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glitch1985 1 point a day ago

Hopefully it's a male ginko.

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flandish 3 points a day ago

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) smells rather interesting in here.

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Salamanderwizard 20 points a day ago

The tree is going through a rebellious phase.

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DrSleepless 12 points a day ago

“Treena is a punk rocker”

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hakunawazo 11 points a day ago

That's the license plate for insurance. If the tree drives like the axe in the wood.

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Zachariah 7 points a day ago

tree law is no laughing matter

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Imgonnatrythis 10 points a day ago

Nice work. For every 100 you collect turn them in at campus security for a free tree!

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driving_crooner 6 points a day ago

Now look up for tree 420

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Wunz 2 points a day ago

This. It's for people who are chronicly late and are never on time for 4:20.

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potpotato 5 points 8 hours ago

Adding to what others have said: It’s part of the tree inventory. It may be used by maintenance/physical plant, but can also be part of an arboretum status for the campus with a publicly facing GIS map and attributes.

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Tollana1234567 4 points 21 hours ago

they do it at our school to identify maintain the tree. unfortunately they are putting it on the invasive, fire-prone eucalyptus blue gums at our university, plus also bottle brush too.

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Kolanaki 3 points a day ago

Someone is claiming them as pets.

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cadekat 3 points a day ago

Trees can be pups too

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Kolanaki 5 points a day ago

That's where dogwood comes from.

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cadekat 1 point a day ago

I'm sure it's full of knots.

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hactar42 3 points a day ago

It's an old MOPAR engine

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deadbeef79000 2 points a day ago

Trees have rings which they use as mating displays much like H. sapien.

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earned_myself_a_gin 1 point a day ago

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LodeMike 1 point 11 hours ago

That's the TF2 tree

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