Ancestry Of Hardwoods. In 1840 there were 215 woods families living in ohio. We presented seeds of 23 different hardwood tree species families betulaceae fagaceae juglandaceae to eastern gray squirrels sciurus carolinensis and measured the time and distance travelled by squirrels that consumed or cached each seed. The most woods families were found in the usa in 1880.
In 1840 there was 1 hardwood family living in virginia. When appropriately watered on good fertile sites or fed in the landscape with a special tree fertilizer mix these ovules will rapidly develop into seeds.
The hardwood family name was found in the usa the uk canada and scotland between 1840 and 1920.
Ohio had the highest population of woods families in 1840. This was 100 of all the recorded hardwood s in the usa. We estimated 11 physical and chemical seed traits for each species and the phylogenetic relationships between the 23 hardwood trees. Wikitree is a community of genealogists growing an increasingly accurate collaborative family tree that s 100 free for everyone forever.
