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Jackalberry trees often grow in riparian forests and on termite mounds, preferring deep alluvial soils, but are not uncommon on sandy soils in savanna. It grows in mutualism with termites, which aerate the soil around its roots but do not eat the living wood; in turn, the tree provides protection for the termites. The jackalberry is the largest ...
Celtis laevigata is a medium-sized tree native to North America. Common names include sugarberry , southern hackberry , or in the southern U.S. sugar hackberry or just hackberry . Sugarberry is easily confused with common hackberry ( C. occidentalis ) where the range overlaps.
Celtis occidentalis, commonly known as the common hackberry, is a large deciduous tree native to North America. It is also known as the nettletree, beaverwood, northern hackberry, and American hackberry. [4] It is a moderately long-lived [4] hardwood [4] with a light-colored wood, yellowish gray to light brown with yellow streaks.
Garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata), [11] invasive in North America. Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus), invasive to Brazil. [12] Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica spp.) - was introduced to the United States from East Asia, [13] shoots are edible and the roots are used for medicinal purposes. [14] Kudzu (Pueraria spp.) [15]
Amelanchier arborea (downy serviceberry [3] or common serviceberry [4]), is native to eastern North America from the Gulf Coast north to Thunder Bay in Ontario and Lake St. John in Quebec, and west to Texas and Minnesota.
Although North America is its native range, due to an imbalance within this ecosystem it has been able to spread rapidly. It is considered the most common and widely spread "pest" plant in Texas . An estimated 25% of Texas’ grasslands are infested and 16 million acres (6.5 million hectares) are so invaded that it is suppressing the majority ...
Every so often we hear horrifying stories of modern day cannibalism. In 2012, a naked man attacked and ate the face of a homeless man in Miami.That same year, a Brazilian trio killed a woman and ...
Amelanchier (/ æ m ə ˈ l æ n ʃ ɪər / am-ə-LAN-sheer), [1] also known as shadbush, shadwood or shadblow, serviceberry or sarvisberry (or just sarvis), juneberry, saskatoon, sugarplum, wild-plum [2] or chuckley pear, [3] is a genus of about 20 species of deciduous-leaved shrubs and small trees in the rose family ().