Fun Friday: The Magnolia Tree

Today for the last day of Fun Friday I'm going to be telling you about the Magnolia Tree.


The Magnolia Tree is a member of the Magnoliaceae and ranges in size from from 10-15 feet in height and great numbers of flowers.The flowers of this tree can be all sorts of colors from white to pink even a purplish color.The magnolia flower pictures you see up in the left corner are actual pictures from the tree I have in my back yard.The leaves of this tree can be dark brown,dark green,and greenish yellow.The Magnolia has been around since prehistoric times making one of the oldest living flowers.


That's my report on the Magnolia Tree.The End.

Fun Friday: The Mimosa Tree

Today for Fun Friday I'll be telling you about the Mimosa Tree.

The Mimosa Tree is a beautiful tree that you can find in Asia,mostly China,Western Africa,and even some of the United States of America which include California,New York and Florida I have one in my own back yard!Actually it's not planted in my yard it's planted in my neighbors yard and it climbs over our fence so they get the and water it but we get the glorious flowers.This particular tree doesn't live very long only up to about 20 years and it reaches heights up to 40 feet tall meaning it is a medium size tree.The on in my neighbors yard is only about 4 years old and is about 7.3 feet tall so there's is still a midget!The flowers of this tree a pinkish white ang are very puffy falling off every now and then.My sister calls them poofy heads ha ha ha how cute.


That's my report on the Mimosa Tree and the information came from garden guides.com the video came from You Tube and the picture came from Google Pictures.The End.

Fun Friday: Apple Trees

Today for yesterdays Fun Friday I'm going to be telling you about Apple Tree.


The Apple Tree is a kind of fruit tree usually found in the Northern States.The tree averages in size of up to 30 feet high,sometimes 40,and the apple its self is usually 6 inches wide.All of us have heard of world records right well here's a apple world record.Did you know that the largest apple grown was grown in Japan and weighed over 4 pounds that's more than my Aunt's dog!The Apple Tree is one of the most popular trees found up in the Northern States.The flowers are a member of the rose family but for some reason the flower looks more like a Magnolia Flower although the Apple Tree became so popular because of the man who made history by traveling through the Northern States and planting apple seeds along the way and his name is Johnny Appleseed.

That's my report on the Apple Tree.The End.

Fun Friday The Grapefruit Tree

Today for Yesterdays Fun Friday I'll be telling you about the Grape Fruit Tree.


This fruit is quite popular in the USA growing in Florida,Texas,California and so on.This tree is a medium sized tree measuring up to 49 feet tall and 3-4 feet wide.The fruit is yellow orange but the inside is scarlet red.Around the inside there are white lines that go through the red and around the red.It's tare but the Grape Fruit can turn into colors like pink,white,and red.The leaves are long thin,and greenish brown.


That's my report on the Grape Fruit.The End.

Fun Friday: The Oak Tree

Today for Fun Friday I'm going to tell you about the Oak Tree.


The Oak tree is in the family of deciduous which means it loses It's leaves every Winter.It ranges in sizes up to the size of 105 feet tall and 32 feet wide!It can be found all over the U.S.A. from Florida,where I live now,to New York,where I lived when I was little and I mean little like 3 year old little,to even the wet lands of Louisiana.This is one tree which deserves the name "Old Man" because they can live from 400 to 1,000 years old!One time when me and my Mom were going to Walmart I saw this old Oak Tree with a branch that poked out the middle going straight at first then going down till it touched the ground which made the tree look like it was holding a cane ha,ha,ha.This tree is one of the trees that I know of that produces acorns.These particular acorns can get the size of two thumbs and if they land on your head it will feel like you have been hit with a piece of hale.


That's my report on the Oak Tree.The End.

Fun Friday The Maple Tree

Today for a few days ago Fun Friday I'm going to tell you about the Maple Tree.

The Maple Tree is one of the most common trees in North America.


It is a huge tree usually growing to the average size of up to 50 feet but some can get up to 70ft.They are deciduous trees meaning they loose there leaves in the fall.When the leaves of this tree falls off the leaves spin like a helicopter while falling,where coming in for a landing.The leaves of this tree are all sorts colors throughout the year.In the Spring they are a nice shade of green,in the Summer they get a brighter shade of green,in the Fall they get the colors of red,yellow,and orange,in early Winter they start to fall of and the leaves are dark brown,and in mid and late Winter the trees are bare and the leaves at the bottom are brown.Then the cycle repeats over and over again!The flowers of this tree are thin and sit up right,most other tree flowers don't do that.

That's my report on the Maple Tree.The End.

Fun Friday: American Holly Tree

Today for the new Fun Friday I'll be telling you about the American Holly Tree(Well be doing trees for Fun Friday for now.).

The American Holly is the cousin of the Dahoon Holly.Averaging up to 50 feet in height it is a medium sized tree normally found in sandy,sandy,soil unlike It's cousin which is found in the swamps where all the soil there is mush.The flowers of this tree are I'm guessing purple and are found in big clumps.If you don't know what clumped is just think of a bunch of magnets attached to a stove in the same spot.The bark of this particular tree is gray almost black,rough,and rather thin.The twigs are slender,a light brown like color,and glabrous what ever that means.The leaves 2-4 inches long and are sharp!They are yellowish green on the top of the leaf however the bottem is more yellow than the top.The fruit of the tree is red with with usually one seed in it.

That's my report on the American Holly for this week's Fun Friday.The End.

Fun Friday The Letter Z: Zebras

Today for the last post on Fun Friday I will be telling you about Zebras.


The Zebra is a member of the horse and donkey family that is found in Africa.Each stripe on a Zebra is different in it's own special way.It is rare but you can sometimes find a albino Zebra,as seen up in the left hand corner.The mare of a Zebra kind of sits right on it's back which makes it different from most horses.Also unlike there cousins the horse and donkey most Zebras are not domesticated.They are too wild and will not obey there masters orders.They rang in size to about 4-5 feet and weigh up to 400 pounds.
they are herbivorous and usually at the grass of the plains that they live on but they also eat twigs,bushes,bark and more.The reason they can eat all that stuff is because they have very good adaptable stomachs.A Female horse has about 1 foal per year and the baby's are brown and white unlike there parents which are black and white.

That's my report on the Zebra hope you enjoyed the Fun Friday event.The End.

Fun Friday The Letter Y: The Yak

Today for Fun Friday I will be telling you about the Yak for the letter Y.

The Yak is the largest individual in the Bison family.They can be at height of 7.2 feet at the shoulder and weigh up to 1,000 pound's but It's rare.The Females are slightly smaller than the males.Both Males and Females have horns.Yaks can live up to 20 years old.They are normally black or brown but you can also find Albino Yaks.They are found in North and Southern Asia and are found in forest and Mountain like areas.

That's my report on the Yak.The End. P.S. Next week is the last week of Fun Friday hope you enjoyed this weekly special.

Fun Friday Letter W: Walrus

Today for Fun Friday I'm going to tell you about the walrus.



The walrus is a big water mammal that is brown to tan,like me,and feeds on things like soft corals,crabs,and mollusks(or clams as most people call them.).They are a member of the seal family mostly related to the manatee.It only has two main predators which are the Polar Bear and the Killer Whale A.K.A. the Orca.At a length of almost 25 feet a Killer Whale can easily kill a walrus in the water and on land!,They have been known to come up on the sand bar and grab a walrus right from under its feet.There are mainly three different kinds of walrus.The Atlantic,Pacific,and Laptev Walrus.A walrus colony can be up to 200,000 walrus that's more than the city of Tampa,a lot more.


That's my report on the Walrus for Fun Friday.The End.

Fun Friday The Letter V: Vampire Bats

Today for the letter V I'm going to tell you about the Vampire Bat.


The Vampire Bat is one of the only creatures on the planet from mosquito,bed bug,and even a kind of butterfly that drinks blood as its main food source.It makes it home in anything that's abandoned from wells,houses,but they normally make there home in caves.They live in Central to South America where there is plenty of farm land which is where they get there food from.They normally drink the blood of cattle,sheep, and horses very rarely humans.The vampire bat lives in huge colonies of up and maybe over 1oo individuals.There are only three different species of vampire bats in the world,the common vampire,the hairy legged vampire,and the white-winged vampire bat.The size of a vampire bat is usually 4 inches high with a wing spanned of eight inches.

That's my report on the vampire bat.The End.

Fun Friday The Letter U: Urials

Today for the letter U I'm going to tell you about the Urial a kind of Big Horn Sheep.


The Urial is one of the largest sheep in the world at a height of 35 inches at the shoulder and there horns can be up to 39 inches long the weight is not known.The description of the Urial is a rich reddish brown fur coat,very big horns,and a white line down the neck like my dog Krypto.The Urial has a rather good amount of relatives including the Mouflon.In mating season the Male will normally mate with 5 other females and at the end of five months a female will have one calve.Mating season starts in September and ends in February.The range of a Urial is in most of Asia from Iran to Kazakhstan and even to Pakistan.It's diet is grass and leaves.


That's my report on Urials.The End.P.S. The video is not that good.

Fun Friday The Letter T: Tigers

Today for Fun Friday I'm going to tell you about Tigers.The tiger is the biggest cat in the panthera genus which includes lions,jaguars,and cheetahs.



There are many species of tiger from the Sumatran,Malayan,Indochinese,Bengal,South China,and the king of tigers the Siberian Tiger at 3ft 7in at the shoulder and weighing up to 670ib.Most tigers live in Asia where they have moved in from Africa many years ago except for one which lives in Siberia Russia,the Siberian Tiger.All tiger's have two thing's in common,1 they all have stripes and 2 they all eat meat!!The diet of a tiger is relatively big prey usually wild boar and,water and majestic buffalo,moose,and even crocodiles.They also take a risk by going after baby elephant's and baby rhinos.Tigers usually hunt at night waiting in one spot for a animal to come walking along and then wap dinner is served.The female tiger usually has a litter of 6 to four year round.

That's my report on the tiger hope you enjoyed it.The End.P.S. The picture at the top is a picture of me and my sister Caitlin petting a baby Bengal tiger.It's a male.

Fun Friday The Letter S: Scorpions

Today for Fun Friday I'm going to tell you about the emperor scorpion.The emperor scorpion is a big scorpion found in the African region.The emperor scorpion is one of the biggest scorpions in the world growing to about 8 inches but the biggest one ever recorded was a forest scorpion at a length of 9 inches long.Although it may be big it's venom is not very toxic only being to kill probably 1 person with a single sting but other scorpions like the Arizona,the most venomous scorpion in North America,can kill up to 4 people with one sting!The emperor scorpion has a huge appetite eating lizards,birds,and small rodents to small thing's like termites and worms.It also has a variety of predators like other scorpions,spiders,wasps,and flies.That's my report on the emperor scorpion.The End.

Fun Friday The Letter R: Red Pandas

Today is Fun Friday, at Blogging For Fun. We are doing an A-Z meme, and are up to the letter R. R is for Red Pandas. The red panda is a small mammal no bigger than the common house cat.It is a reddish brown animal with a big bushy tail,stubby front feet and bigger back feet,and a black tummy.It is found in a some what a big part of Asia from Nepal to Tibet and so on.It likes warm,damp,and humid where it spends most of it's day sleeping,no it is not nocturnal it hunts from dusk to dawn.(If any of you can tell me what it means when they hunt in the morning and sleeps in the day and night please tell me in the comment section thank you.)The red panda is a omnivore eating basically bamboo like it's bigger cousin the giant panda but also like the giant panda it also eats meat like birds,insects, and smaller mammals.The mother red panda has a litter of 4 cubs every year each weighing about 4.6 ounces.The red pandas main threat is the snow leopard.That's my report on the red panda.The End.

Fun Friday Letter Q: Quails

Today I'm to tell you about the Asian Blue Quail.The Asian Blue Quail is found from Southeastern Asia to Oceania Asia and has 10 different subspecies.The Asian Blue Quail is the smallest of the quails and can fit in my hands which are 12 cm when put together.The Asian Blue Quail can be all sorts of colors from white and brown,gray blue, and silver. They can live to 13 years, but usually 7 to 5 years old.That's my report on the Asian Blue Quail.The End. P.S. Sorry about the short post.

Fun Friday The Letter P: Black Panthers

Today I'm going to tell you about Black Panthers.The black panther is also known as Black leopard and is hard to recognize as a leopard because its so dark you can't see the spots.The black panther is a carnivore and is a very near threatened animal weighing at 66 to 178 pounds and at a length of 4.25 to 6.25.That's my report on the Black Panther.The End.

Fun Friday The Letter O: Orcas

Today I'm going to tell you about the orca for Fun Friday.Orcas are the stars of the sea. Not only have they been presented in water parks all over the world(Such as Sea Worlds famous Shamu.) but they have proven there stardom in all of the worlds oceans from the poles to the tropics where I live and as a matter of fact when I was going to Cedar Key a famous beach in north Florida I saw a fin in the water.It could have been a orca or a shark but all my mom says is "You didn't see a fin" but what does she know but enough of story time on with the post.The orca is the biggest of the dolphin family with the males growing up from 19 to 26 feet and weighing up to 6 tonnes while the girls grow up from 16 to 23 feet and weigh up to only 5 tonnes and the baby's are up to 397 pounds and grow to about 8 feet.Now you know why there the biggest in the dolphin family.The killer whale is a carnivore with a big appetite eating almost every thing that swims from salmon to seals and penguins and even dangerous prey such as elephant seals,walruses,and even other whales.The orcas description is black and white and a rather large fin that grows up to 6 feet long.Mommy orcas are great at nursing their young having at least 1 offspring every year.That's my report on orcas.The End.

Fun Friday The Letter N: Narwhals

Today I'm going to tell you about the Narwhal.The narwhal is one of the medium sized whales of the Arctic Ocean and the Canadian Arctic next to the Beluga Whale.Unlike any other whale or fish the narwhal has a unicorn like horn on its face and that's what narwhal means, unicorn whale. But actually it's not a horn,it's a tooth!That's right,a big long tooth sticking out of the upper lip.Plus this tooth is no puny feller,when I said big I meant big not 3 feet long but up to 9 feet long now that would make a woolly mammoths tusk feel a little jealous.And if you thought the
tooth was big the body is even bigger!Up to 16 feet in length.The narwhal is a carnivore feeding on lots of items like wolfish,and gonatus squid.The narwhal is a whale that usually is in small groups from 10 to sometimes 15 narwhals.That's my report on the narwhal.The End.

Fun Friday The Letter M: Moose

Today I'm going to tell you about the Moose.The moose is the largest deer on the planet standing 6 to 7 feet at the shoulder and weighing 850 to 1580 pounds.The moose's description is brownish black to a rich caramel brown to a rare completely white body called an albino moose.Albino means white.In order to stay alive and remain the worlds largest dear it must eat a lot of plants which means they are indeed a herbivore and how many calories of plants a day do they need to eat you might ask?About 9,770 per day now that's a lot of plants.The moose is a very big animal so it does not have many predators except the cougar,a pack of wolves,a brown bear,and a Siberian Tiger.That's my report on the moose.The End.