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  2. Afrocarpus gracilior - Wikipedia

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    Afrocarpus gracilior cone and foliage.. Afrocarpus gracilior is a medium-sized tree, growing 20–40 m tall, rarely to 50 m, with a trunk diameter of 50–80 cm. The leaves are spirally arranged, lanceolate, 2–6 cm long and 3–5 mm broad on mature trees, larger, to 10 cm (4 in) long and 6 mm broad on vigorous young trees.

  3. Boswellia sacra - Wikipedia

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    Boswellia sacra, also known as Boswellia carteri and others, and commonly called the frankincense tree or the olibanum tree, is a tree in the genus Boswellia, in the Burseraceae family, from which frankincense, a resinous dried sap, is harvested. [5]

  4. Agroforestry - Wikipedia

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    The trees were planted with fruit, tea, coffee, oil, fodder and medicinal products in addition to their usual harvest. Agroforestry was one of the most widespread adaptation strategies, along with the use of improved crop varieties and intercropping.

  5. Handroanthus impetiginosus - Wikipedia

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    In most cases, once these trees are logged, the rest of the forest is cleared for agricultural use. [9] Scientific examination of current logging practices, in which 90% of mature trees can be legally harvested, found that recovery from juvenile populations within 60 years was not likely under any feasible scenario (five were modeled). [9]

  6. Toxicodendron vernicifluum - Wikipedia

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    The trees are cultivated and tapped for their toxic sap, which is used as a highly durable lacquer to make Chinese, Japanese, and Korean lacquerware. The trees grow up to 20 metres tall with large leaves, each containing from 7 to 19 leaflets (most often 11–13).

  7. Pinus radiata - Wikipedia

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    Pinus radiata (syn. Pinus insignis), the Monterey pine, [3] insignis pine [4] or radiata pine, is a species of pine native to the Central Coast of California and Mexico (on Guadalupe Island and Cedros island).

  8. Dalbergia cochinchinensis - Wikipedia

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    Owners could then grow commercial crops of the trees for sustainable harvest. It was hoped that this would decrease illegal logging. [15] However, by 2022, assessment [4] indicated that unsustainable harvesting, including illegal logging and smuggling, had continued and brought D. cochinchinensis to a critically endangered status.

  9. Prosopis pallida - Wikipedia

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    Prosopis pallida is a species of mesquite tree. It has the common names kiawe (/ k iː ˈ ɑː v eɪ /) [2] (in Hawaii), huarango (in its native South America) and American carob, as well as "bayahonda" (a generic term for Prosopis), "algarrobo pálido" (in some parts of Ecuador and Peru), and "algarrobo blanco" (usually used for Prosopis alba).