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  2. Botanical sexism - Wikipedia

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    Urban planting of male Ginkgo biloba in Riverside, Illinois. Botanical sexism is a term that describes the preferential planting of cloned male plants in urban areas because they do not produce fruits and flowers that litter the landscape. However, because males produce pollen, areas with only male plants can have high pollen in the air and ...

  3. Is a preference for planting pollen-spewing male trees making ...

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    In a 2018 report from the academy, researchers say the selection of uniform species and male trees does reduce fruit and other litter but has resulted in “homogeneous pollen profiles with a high ...

  4. University of California, Berkeley oak grove controversy

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    The oak grove sits at the base of California Memorial Stadium and at the time of the controversy consisted of about 90 trees: 65 oaks, including 38 coast live oaks, 25 pittosporum, 8 redwoods, 5 pines and 1 or 2 cypress, cedar, pepper and yew trees. [7]

  5. Million Tree Initiative - Wikipedia

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    This initiative was planned to plant trees between 2006 and 2010 and the trees were expected to provide environmental benefits and were predicted to continue to grow until 2040. [4] This campaign is important and can increase urban woods as a piece of infrastructure that can assist cities in mitigating their environment. [ 5 ]

  6. Whittier planned to cut down more than 80 ficus trees. Then ...

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    Some blame the trees for sidewalk and plumbing issues; others relish their shade. ... adding that the city will plant larger replacement trees "wherever possible," as well as add 39,000 square ...

  7. Bad things we do to good trees: Examples abound in North ...

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  8. Jurupa Oak - Wikipedia

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    The Jurupa Oak, or Hurungna Oak, [1] [2] is a clonal colony of Quercus palmeri (Palmer's oak) trees in the Jurupa Mountains in Crestmore Heights, Riverside County, California. The colony has survived an estimated 13,000 years through clonal reproduction, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] making it one of the world's oldest living trees . [ 5 ]

  9. How Cities are Using Trees to Combat Climate Change - AOL

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