How to collect Alder/Alnus Tree Seeds

Seed collection location: Tabangawen and Benguet State University, La Trinidad, Benguet

What is Alder Trees or locally known as Alnus or Alnus japonica..

Alders are commonly found near streams, rivers, and wetlands. In the Pacific Northwest of North America, the white alder (Alnus rhombifolia) unlike other northwest alders, has an affinity for warm, dry climates, where it grows along watercourses, such as along the lower Columbia River east of the Cascades and the Snake River, including Hells Canyon.

Alder leaves and sometimes catkins are used as food by numerous butterflies and moths.

In the environment it is nitrogen fixing or in other words it absorbs nitrogen from the air and stores it in the trees root system. Therefor improving soil fertility to the area where the Alder tree is located.

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