Growing up the house was surrounded by by pine trees and the all growing "alnos". Now, my late dad told me what it was and I've always thought it was spelled such. Years later (now) after reading up my friend Erwin's bio-blog just now, it made me start thinking about what my surroundings were.
The ALNUS is the scientific family of the alder tree. There are alot of different versions of it. My guess though is that in particular the one back home is actually of the order Alnus japonica and probably brought over by the Japanese occupation in the 1940's. Here's an image to make you remember -
A curiosity about the alder is of various legends and myths to it. Nice link for the curious here.
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