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Known as choje to the indigenous San people, the quiver tree gets its English common name from the San people practice of hollowing out the tubular branches of Aloidendron dichotomum to form quivers for their arrows. The specific epithet "dichotomum" refers to how the stems repeatedly branch into two ("dichotomous" branching) as the plant grows ...
Aloidendron pillansii, formerly Aloe pillansii, the giant quiver tree or bastard quiver tree, is a large, branching species of succulent plant indigenous to southern Africa. It is regarded as critically endangered .
Aloidendron ramosissimum (formerly Aloe ramosissima), or the maiden’s quiver tree, [1] is a species of endangered succulent flowering plant in the family ...
Quiver tree forest Dolerite rocks and quiver trees. The Quiver Tree Forest (Kokerboomwoud in Afrikaans) is a forest and tourist attraction of southern Namibia.It is located about 14 km north-east of Keetmanshoop on the road to Koës, on the Gariganus farm.
Tree stands or deer stands are open or enclosed platforms used by hunters. The platforms are secured to trees in order to elevate the hunter and give them a better vantage point. A tripod stand is a similar device, but because it is freestanding rather than attached to a tree, it is not technically a tree stand.
Limbing a pine tree with a manual pruning saw. Limbing or delimbing is the process of removing branches from a standing or fallen tree trunk. [1]This truck known as a Delimber is used for limbing and saves time.
A young stand of even-aged fir trees growing in a formerly clearcut area in the Sierra Nevada mountains, with an older cohort behind them. Even-aged timber management is a group of forest management practices employed to achieve a nearly coeval cohort group of forest trees. [1]
A Kinetic hanger is a randomized version of a kinetic heap whose performance is easy to analyze tightly. A kinetic hanger satisfies the heap property (the priority of each element is higher than the priority of its children) but relaxes the requirement that the tree structure must be strictly balanced, thus insertions and deletions can be randomized.