As you walk along the trails around Skyline Ridge, you may notice trees with red, flaky bark. These trees are called madrone for the spanish word for strawberry tree since their fruit look like strawberries. When these fruit dry up they have hooked barbs like a fishing hook, that attach themselves to large animals to spread their seeds.

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The Madrone is also known as the refrigerator tree. Can you figure out why? Hint: Put your hands on the trees trunk. What does it feel like?

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