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Magnolia tripetala, commonly called umbrella magnolia or simply umbrella-tree, is a deciduous tree native to the eastern United States in the Appalachian Mountains, the Ozarks, and the Ouachita Mountains. The name "umbrella tree" derives from the fact that the large leaves are clustered at the tips of the branches forming an umbrella-shaped ...
Vachellia reficiens (Afrikaans: Rooihak, German: Rotrindenakazie), commonly known as red-bark acacia, red thorn, [3] false umbrella tree, [3] or false umbrella thorn, [4] is a deciduous tree or shrub of the pea family native to southern Africa, often growing in an upside-down cone shape and with a relatively flat crown.
The stone pine is a coniferous evergreen tree that can exceed 25 metres (80 feet) in height, but 12–20 m (40–65 ft) is more typical. In youth, it is a bushy globe, in mid-age an umbrella canopy on a thick trunk, and, in maturity, a broad and flat crown over 8 m (26 ft) in width. [2]
Vachellia tortilis, widely known as Acacia tortilis but now attributed to the genus Vachellia, [4] is the umbrella thorn acacia, also known as umbrella thorn and Israeli babool, [5] a medium to large canopied tree native to most of Africa, primarily to the savanna and Sahel of Africa (especially the Somali peninsula and Sudan), but also occurring in the Middle East.
Rabbits and rodents can cause injury to the thin bark and twigs of young trees.
smooth-bark Mexican pine Pinaceae (pine family) Pinus pumila: dwarf Siberian pine ... umbrella tree; tortilis Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Acacia tortuosa:
Heptapleurum actinophyllum is an evergreen tree growing to 15 m (50 feet) tall. It has palmately compound medium green leaves in groups of seven leaflets. It is usually multi-trunked, and the flowers develop at the top of the tree. [3] It often grows as a hemiepiphyte on other rainforest trees.
Saman is a wide-canopied tree with a large symmetrical umbrella-shaped crown. It usually reaches a height of 15–25 m (49–82 ft) and a diameter of 30 m (98 ft). [6] This species of flowering tree in the Fabaceae family is native to Central and South America but has been widely introduced across the tropics, especially South and Southeast Asia.