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EstablishmentFull797 t1_jdfjtm4 wrote

Reply to comment by Animanialmanac in What are the trees with white flowers blooming all over the city? by tealccart

They are incredibly invasive too, and an ecological scourge crowding out native trees that benefit wildlife.

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[deleted] t1_jdhznyu wrote

My partner and I were just driving along the highway and saying Bradford pear trees really highlight the issue with invasives because they bloom do early they're easy to distinguish. And there are so many of them.

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EstablishmentFull797 t1_jdi11m1 wrote

Yeah, parts of 695 are just a straight up wall of insidious white flowers this time of year.

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Animanialmanac t1_jdfnwro wrote

Yes! I was reading in the article the other user posted. They are invasive, birds and deer spread them.

The wooded area around Maiden Choice run has many Bradford Pear crowding out the other trees, now I know how they got there.

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Cheomesh t1_jdh9205 wrote

In a way also kind of native (ish) since they were hybridized here in MD.

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EstablishmentFull797 t1_jdi1kyw wrote

Nah not really. The trees that they hybridized from were invasive too.

That’s like how there’s places in North America where there are wild pigs that are hybrids of feral domestic swine and Russian boars. Still invasive, just with local flair.

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