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Old 06-08-2017, 11:39 AM
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Angry Texas Mountain Cedar

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Originally Posted by CFrance View Post
Not to get too far off topic, but is all pollen yellow? Up north we used to get white stuff flying all over the place in the spring. It looked like whispy cottony snowflakes.
A white pollen that once brought me to the Urgent Care doctor in central Texas is from a tree called the Texas Mountain Cedar tree (although it is actually a laurel.) Twenty percent of Texans are affected by this pollen.

After the pollen blooms, gusts of wind blow this pollen from the tree in great clouds.
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