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Phillyrea latifolia, commonly known as green olive tree or mock privet, is a species of tree in the family Oleaceae. [3] It is native to the Mediterranean Basin , from Morocco and Portugal in the west, to the Levant in the east.
A test site with several fruit tree forms located at Gaasbeek Castle. Fruit trees are grown in a variety of shapes, sometimes for aesthetic appeal but mainly to encourage fruit production. The form or shape of fruit trees can be manipulated by pruning and training. Shaping and promoting a particular tree form is undertaken to establish the ...
Spur pruning: Spur bearing varieties form spurs naturally, but spur growth can also be induced. Renewal pruning: This also depends on the tendency of many apple and pear trees to form flower buds on unpruned two-year-old laterals. It is a technique best used for the strong laterals on the outer part of the tree where there is room for such growth.
Sclerophyll woodland in Tuscany, Italy. The type of sclerophyllic trees in the Palearctic flora region include the holm oak (Quercus ilex), myrtle (Myrtus communis), strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo), wild olive (Olea europaea), laurel (Laurus nobilis), mock privet (Phillyrea latifolia), the Italian buckthorn (Rhamnus alaternus), etc. [4]
Phillyrea is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae, native to the Mediterranean region, and naturalized in the Canary Islands and Madeira. [ 2 ] They are evergreen shrubs or small trees growing to 3–9 m tall, related to Ligustrum , Olea and Osmanthus .
Phillyrea angustifolia, the narrow-leaved mock privet, [1] is a species of flowering plant in the olive family Oleaceae, native to the western and central Mediterranean. [2] It is an evergreen shrub with simple, entire, leathery, dark green, oppositely arranged leaves. Scented creamy-white flowers are borne at the leaf axils in spring and ...
Thinning: A more drastic form of pruning, a thinning out cut is the removal of an entire shoot, limb, or branch at its point of origin. [5] This is usually employed to revitalize a plant by removing over-mature, weak, problematic, and excessive growths.
The Illinois List of Endangered and Threatened Species is reviewed about every five years by the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board (ESPB). [1] To date it has evaluated only plants and animals of the US state of Illinois, not fungi, algae, or other forms of life; species that occur in Illinois which are listed as endangered or threatened by the U.S. federal government under the ...