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  2. Buttress root - Wikipedia

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    Buttress roots, also known as plank roots, are large, wide roots on all sides of a shallowly rooted tree. Typically, they are found in nutrient-poor tropical forest soils that may not be very deep. They may prevent the tree from falling over (hence the name buttress ).

  3. Tsuga canadensis - Wikipedia

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    The eastern hemlock grows well in shade and is very long lived, with the oldest recorded specimen, found in Tionesta, Pennsylvania, being at least 554 years old. [7] The tree generally reaches heights of about 31 m (102 ft), [5] but exceptional trees have been recorded up to 53 m (174 ft). [8]

  4. The Great Banyan - Wikipedia

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    The present crown of the tree has a circumference of 486 m (1,594 ft) and the highest branch rises to 24.5 m (80 ft); it has at present 3772 aerial roots reaching down to the ground as a prop root. Its height is almost equivalent to the Gateway of India. The tree lost several prop roots when Cyclone Amphan passed through West Bengal on 20 May 2020.

  5. Tsuga heterophylla - Wikipedia

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    The immature cones are green, maturing gray-brown 5–7 months after pollination. They are usually plentiful enough to cover the ground beneath the tree. [6] The abundant seeds are brown, 2–3 mm (3 ⁄ 32 – 1 ⁄ 8 in) long, with a slender, pale-brown wing measuring 7–9 mm (9 ⁄ 32 – 11 ⁄ 32 in) long. [4] [5] [6]

  6. Acer rubrum - Wikipedia

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    A crop of seeds is generally produced every year with a bumper crop often occurring every second year. A single tree between 5 and 20 cm (2.0 and 7.9 in) in diameter can produce between 12,000 and 91,000 seeds in a season. A tree 30 cm (0.98 ft) in diameter was shown to produce nearly a million seeds. [8]

  7. List of superlative trees - Wikipedia

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    The Sacred Fig grows adventitious roots from its branches, which become new trunks when the root reaches the ground and thickens; a single sacred fig tree can have hundreds of such trunks. [59] The multi-stemmed Hundred Horse Chestnut was known to have a circumference of 57.9 m (190 ft) when it was measured in 1780.

  8. Quercus marilandica - Wikipedia

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    Quercus marilandica is a small deciduous tree growing to 15 meters (49 feet) tall, with bark cracked into rectangular black plates with narrow orange fissures. The leaves are 7–20 centimeters (3–8 inches) long and broad, and typically flare from a tapered base to a broad three-lobed bell shape with only shallow indentations.

  9. List of U.S. state and territory trees - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of U.S. state, federal district, and territory trees, including official trees of the following of the states, of the federal district, ...