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| | Tree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The roots of a tree are generally embedded in earth, providing anchorage for the above-ground biomass and absorbing water and nutrients from the soil. | | | The earliest trees were tree ferns and horsetails, which grew in vast forests in the Carboniferous Period; tree ferns still survive, but the only surviving horsetails are not of tree form. | | | A tree is a plant form and trees occur in many different orders and families of plants. |
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| | Christmas Trees & More-Tree Facts |
| | Christmas trees are baled to protect the branches from damage during shipping. | | | Real Christmas trees are involved in less than one-tenth of one percent of residential fires and only when ignited by some external ignition sources. | | | Artificial trees will last for six years in your home, but for centuries in a landfill. |
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| | Tree Trends : A forest biology weblog by Tom Kimmerer |
| | I have seen piles of dead bees beneath buckeye trees in the spring. | | | Buckeyes are the earliest understory trees to leaf out in the spring. | | | Ash trees attacked by Emerald ash borer die quickly and become hazardous, with falling dead limbs and entire trees prone to falling. |
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| | The Christmas Archives: Chronological History of the Christmas Tree |
| | He records a tree decorated with "wafers and golden sugar-twists (Barleysugar) and paper flowers of all colours". | | | At this time Christmas Trees became a glorious hotchpotch of everything one could cram on; or by complete contrast the aesthetic trees which were delicately balanced trees, with delicate colours, shapes and style. | | | The custom was to have several small trees on tables, one for each member of the family, with that persons gifts stacked on the table under the tree. |
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| | Christmas traditions, Christmas tree history |
| | Cultivated trees were preferred because they have a more symmetrical shape then wild ones. | | | In the 1960's it was fashionable to have an Aluminum tree and all the same shape and color ornaments. | | | The fir tree has a long association with Christianity, it began in Germany almost a 1000 years ago when St Boniface, who converted the German people to Christianity, was said to have come across a group of pagans worshipping an oak tree. |
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| | tree |
| | The tree's animal tenants, not particularly good housekeepers, all deposit droppings, leftover food, and other organic bits and pieces at the base of the tree, providing it with nutrients. | | | Many other insects, such as the larvae and caterpillars of butterflies, feed upon the leaves or other parts of the eucalyptus tree. | | | The fragrant oils produced by the tree are used in the mining industry to float detritus away from valuable ore, as a base in many perfumes, and in many cold medications, such as throat lozenges and chest rubs. |
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| | All about the Christmas tree: Pagan origins, Christian adaptation and secular status |
| | Christmas trees were not used by Puritans in colonial times. | | | But, even though deciduous trees, bushes, and crops died or hibernated for the winter, the evergreen trees remained green. | | | Of course, these were not really Christmas trees, because Jesus was not born until centuries later, and the use of Christmas trees was not introduced for many centuries after his birth. |
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| | Pet Trees |
| | Basically each Pet Tree is a real tree (well, mini-plant) inside a tiny plastic bell jar with a keyring attachment. | | | Pet Trees are the latest craze from Japan, and, like most innovations from the Land of the Rising Sun, they're incredibly small. | | | As you nurture your Pet Tree it will grow inside its durable little container until it becomes big enough to be removed and planted. |
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| | Puka (tree) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Puka (Meryta sinclairii) is a large-leaved evergreen tree native to New Zealand that grows to about 8 m tall, with a "tropical" appearance. |
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| | Oak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Other dangers include wood-boring beetles, as well as root rot in older trees which may not be apparent on the outside, often only being discovered when the trees come down in a strong gale. | | | Oak Wilt, caused by the fungus Ceratocystis fagacearum (a fungus closely related to Dutch Elm Disease), is also a lethal disease of some oaks, particularly the red oaks (the white oaks can be infected but resist the disease better, and are not usually killed). | | | Section Quercus (synonyms Lepidobalanus and Leucobalanus), the white oaks of Europe, Asia and North America. |
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| | Pollination |
| | In the 1950s when the woods were full of wild bee trees, and beehives were normally kept on most South Carolina farms, a farmer who grew ten acres (40,000 m²) of watermelons would be a large grower, and probably had all the pollination needed. | | | As the bee flies from flower to flower, the pollen grains are transferred onto the stigma of the female flower part. | | | Bees travel from flower to flower, collecting nectar (converted to honey later), and in the process pick up pollen grains. |
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| | TreeLink : The Urban Forestry Portal |
| | Trees and vegetation can form a barrier that partially deadens the sound from traffic, lawn mowers, and loud neighbors Trees also create "background" noise of rustling leaves and wind through the branches that can help muffle other noises (Harris 1992). | | | • The Right Tree In the Right Place - This site contains good information on planting, tree care, storm damage, tree benefits, and an area for kids to learn about trees. | | | •Selecting, planting and caring for trees - Provided by the USDA Forest Service St. Paul Field Office, this page addresses a number of common questions about tree care. |
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| | Liriodendron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | These trees are easily recognized by their leaves, which are very unusual, having four lobes in most cases and a cross-cut notched or straight apex; size varies from 8-17 cm (3-7 inches) long and 6-12 cm (2.5-5 inches) broad in both species; the petiole is 4-10 cm (1.6-4 inches) long. | | | Spathodea campanulata, often known as the African tulip tree, an unrelated plant in a separate family (Bignoniaceae). | | | The flowers have an orange band on the tepals; they yield large quantities of nectar and the species is a major honey plant in the eastern United States, yielding a dark reddish, fairly strong honey. |
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| | Delonix, Royal Poinciana, Flame of the Forest, Framboyan (Flamboyant tree), Peacock flower |
| | Royal Poinciana, Flame of the Forest, Framboyan (Flamboyant tree), Peacock flower | | | Delonix, Royal Poinciana, Flame of the Forest, Framboyan (Flamboyant tree), Peacock flower | | | Specimen and shade tree, they do poorly and usually will not bloom in pots. |
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| | Dove tree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Dove tree is best known for its flowers. | | | The Dove tree is also known as the Pocket Handkerchief Tree because the white bracts appear as a folded handkerchief around flower heads. | | | The flowers are at their best in late May. On a breezy day, the bracts flutter in the wind like white doves, hence the English name for this tree. |
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| | Chapter 9: Crop Plants and Exotic Plants |
| | The pollination of tung trees is dependent upon the honey bee. | | | Webster (1943) concluded that when staminate and pistillate flowers are on separate trees, one staminate tree for 20 pistillate trees was sufficient for satisfactory pollination, provided that some staminate flowers open by the time the pistillate flowers are receptive. | | | (1942) showed that plants caged to exclude bees set no fruit and that wind or shaking the tree was of no value in fruitsetting, but when a tree was caged with a colony of honey bees a good set was obtained. |
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| | Tree Physiology, Home Page |
| | Tree Physiology special issues are available for purchase online | | | Accordingly, we will be reducing our stock of Tree Physiology back issues early in 2006. | | | Biology and Control of Reproductive Processes in Forest Trees |
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| | Tree Climbing Equipment |
| | tree climbing gear, to assist you to choose yours and use it | | | Folks often ask us, “You're into tree climbing gear. | | | Back in 1984, Sophia’s excellence in sewing and pattern drafting teamed up with co-founder Tom Ness’ inventiveness and tree care experience to create the rugged, comfortable tree climbing equipment that launched the New Tribe product line. |
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| | Joshua tree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Once they bloom, the trees are pollinated by the yucca moth, which spreads pollen while laying her eggs inside the flower. | | | Joshua trees usually do not branch until after they bloom (though branching may also occur if the growing tip is detroyed by the yucca-boring weevil), and they don't bloom every year. | | | The moth larvae feed on the seeds of the tree, but enough seeds are left behind to produce more trees. |
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| | SSA for Trees - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) |
| | To address the first problem, we have created a common tree representation called GENERIC that is meant to be able to represent all the constructs needed by the different front ends while removing all the language dependencies. | | | In GIMPLE all loops are LOOP_EXPRs, a kind of tree node that was not produced by the C front end. | | | The data structures are the same trees used by GCC, but we impose rules on how the trees can be combined. |
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| | Evergreen Tree |
| | True 'til the leaves turn blue on the evergreen tree. | | | Bloom in the summer's sun and the winter's snow. | | | Oh darling, I love you so, don't you know that I'll be. |
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| | Cucumber tree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Cucumber tree, Magnolia acuminata, often spelled as a single word "Cucumbertree", is one of the largest magnolias, and one of the cold-hardiest. | | | The Cucumber tree is native primarily within the | | | cucumber ; they mature dark red, 6-8 cm long and 4 cm broad, with the individual carpels splitting open to release the bright red seeds, 10-60 per fruit. |
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| | Technorati Tag: tree |
| | Buy Fast Growing Trees Online Order fast growing privacy and shade trees that are shipped to your door and are easy to grow. | | | Buy Trees Online and Save Choose from the Fast Growing Tree varieties and find the ones perfect for your area. | | | Posted in Tree on April 27th, 2006 The Joshua Tree: One Tree Hill updated The song ‘One Tree Hill’ (The Joshua Tree) has been updated on 5:th of... |
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| | Natives of Texas -- Hop Tree |
| | Its seed is surrounded by a saucer shaped wing that persists on the tree after the leaves have fallen. | | | It can be grown in full sun or as an understory tree. | | | It is at home with some moisture or on dry rocky situations. |
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| | BOOJUM |
| | The boojum tree is one of the strangest plants imaginable. | | | Individual boojum trees can live for up to 100 years, and possibly up to 300 years, reaching a height of 18 metres. | | | Boojums produce clusters of creamy white flowers at the tips of the trunks in July-August. |
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| | Ethnobotanical Leaflets |
| | Strychnine is obtained commercially from the seeds of the Saint-ignatius's-bean and from the nux-vomica tree. | | | Strychnine, the main alkaloid component of the seeds, acts as a bitter substance, which increases the flow of gastric juices. | | | Strychnine is a poisonous alkaloid, C21H22N2O2, obtained in colorless or white rhombic crystals. |
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| | Cacao - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Cacao ( Theobroma cacao) is a small (4-8 m tall) evergreen tree in the family Malvaceae (formerly Sterculiaceae), native to tropical South America, but now cultivated throughout the tropics. | | | The tree grows naturally in the low foothills of the Andes at elevations of around 200-400 m in the Amazon and Orinoco river basins; it was introduced to Central America by the Maya people. | | | The flowers are produced in clusters directly on the trunk and older branches; they are small, 1-2 cm diameter, with pink calyx. |
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| | Bee Tree ~ Honey Facts |
| | Comb honey is honey that comes as it was produced in the honey bees wax comb. | | | The color and flavor of honey differ depending on the bees' nectar source (the blossoms). | | | Be careful not to boil or scorch the honey. |
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