After a relatively tame start to mountain cedar season due in part to environmental stress, recent counts have been noticeably higher as we approach the home stretch of the season.
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We usually see a spike in mountain cedar after a cold front, when winds from the north bring pollen to San Antonio from the Hill Country. True cedar trees reside near the Mediterranean Sea, around Europe and northern Africa. However, juniper trees here in Texas do bear at least“A lot of the explorers, when they were first coming to the western United States, encountering these trees, they just referred to them as cedars because of that resemblance,” said Karl Flocke, a woodland ecologist with Texas A&M Forest Service.Cedar resides throughout Texas, even up west of Fort Worth, stretching into parts of Oklahoma and Arkansas.
From December through mid-February, tiny cones on the male cedar trees produce pollen. Once those cones open, exposing the pollen, the grains are then carried by the wind to the waiting female trees. And, unfortunately, into our eyes and sinuses as well.for years, a typical mountain cedar season peaks at 20,000 to 32,000 grains per cubic meter of air. That’s roughly a 3-foot-by-3-foot space.
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