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Alstonia scholaris, commonly called blackboard tree, scholar tree, milkwood or devil's tree in English, [3] is an evergreen tropical tree in the dogbane family (Apocynaceae). It is native to southern China, tropical Asia (mainly the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia ) and Australasia , where it is a common ornamental plant .
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Roots of trees. Early root growth is one of the functions of the apical meristem located near the tip of the root. The meristem cells more or less continuously divide, producing more meristem, root cap cells (these are sacrificed to protect the meristem), and undifferentiated root cells. The latter become the primary tissues of the root, first ...
Prince Albert, also German, sent trees to schools and army forts around the holiday season, but the tree trend took off with the help of an 1848 etching which made their tradition public knowledge.
Erica arborea is an upright evergreen shrub or small tree with a typical height in the wild of some 7 m (23 ft), especially in Africa, but more typically 1–4 m (3–13 ft) in gardens. It bears dark green needle-like leaves and numerous small honey-scented bell-shaped white flowers.
Buttress roots vary greatly in size from barely discernable to many square yards (square meters) of surface. The largest for which there is photographic evidence is a Moreton Bay Fig ( Ficus macrophylla ) at Fig Tree Pocket (an outlying district of Brisbane , Queensland ) which was photographed in 1866 with an adult man.