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State flowers: State wildflower - passion flower State cultivated flower - iris: Tennessee has two state flowers. The purple passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) is the state's wildflower and the iris is the state's cultivated flower. In 1919, the Tennessee General Assembly passed a resolution providing for a state flower to be chosen by a vote ...
Some trees play a tune, using vines for harp strings and a chorus of robins. A fight breaks out between a waspish-looking hollow tree and a younger, healthier tree for the attention of a female tree. The young tree emerges victorious, but the hollow tree retaliates by starting a fire. The plants and animals try to extinguish or evade the blaze.
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Most species in the list are officially designated. Some species hold only an "unofficial" status. Additionally, the list includes trees that were once official but are no longer, as well as trees recognized as national symbols or for other symbolic roles.
File: Pablo Picasso, 1907-08, Two Trees (Les Arbres), watercolor on paper, 47.9 x 62.7 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art.jpg
Enterolobium cyclocarpum, a tree of the Caribbean Tamarindus indica, a tree in India. Trees portal; Ecology portal; Environment portal; Africa. Trees of Africa; List of Southern African indigenous trees and woody lianes; Americas. Trees of Canada; Trees of the Caribbean Basin; Trees of Northern America; Asia. Trees of Iran; Trees of Pakistan ...
Tibouchina species are subshrubs, shrubs or small trees. Their leaves are opposite, usually with petioles, and often covered with scales. The inflorescence is a panicle or some modification of a panicle with reduced branching. The individual flowers have five free petals, purple or lilac in color; the color does not change as the flowers age.
Each state and union territory has a unique set of official symbols, usually a state emblem, an animal, a bird, a flower and a tree. A second animal (fish, butterfly, reptile, aquatic animal or heritage animal) sometimes appears, as do fruits and other plants, and there are some state songs and state mottos.