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A broad-leaved, broad-leaf, or broadleaf tree is any tree within the diverse botanical group of angiosperms that has flat leaves and produces seeds inside of fruits. It is one of two general types of trees, the other being a conifer , a tree with needle-like or scale-like leaves and seeds borne in woody cones. [ 1 ]
The leaves of the silver birch tree are used in the festival of St George, held in Novosej and other villages in Albania. [24] Birch leaves in the coat of arms of Karjalohja. The birch is New Hampshire's state tree and the national tree of Finland and Russia. The yellow birch is the official tree of the province of Quebec (Canada).
The leaves of beech trees are entire or sparsely toothed, from 5–15 centimetres (2–6 inches) long and 4–10 cm (2–4 in) broad. The bark is smooth and light gray. The fruit is a small, sharply three-angled nut 10–15 mm ( 3 ⁄ 8 – 5 ⁄ 8 in) long, borne singly or in pairs in soft-spined husks 1.5–2.5 cm ( 5 ⁄ 8 –1 in) long ...
Fruit: The fruit is 2.5 to 3 cm long - roughly the size of a small plum - and ovoid, 1-3 celled, and more or less abruptly tapering to a point, dry indehiscent. Seed : The seed is 1.5 cm long, smooth, brown, and enclosed in a succulent aril which has an acidic taste, and contains 25-38% oil and up to 22% protein .
The leaves are thick with a waxy texture, elliptical, 7 to 15 cm (2 + 3 ⁄ 4 to 6 in) long and 4 to 8 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 to 3 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) broad, arranged spirally; they are glossy dark green above and a lighter, more grayish green beneath, with an entire margin. The leaves are evergreen, lasting a few years before detaching
The hardest hardwoods are much harder than any softwood, [4] but in both groups there is enormous variation with the range of wood hardness of the two groups overlapping. For example, balsa wood, which is a hardwood, is softer than most softwoods, whereas the longleaf pine, Douglas fir, and yew softwoods are much harder than several hardwoods.
The flowers are in dense clusters, produced before the leaves in early spring, [5] with the seeds maturing in early summer. The fruit is a schizocarp of two single-seeded, winged samaras. The wing of each samara is about 3–5 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 –2 in) long. The fruit of this species is the largest among the maples native to its range.
The fruit consists of a 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long fleshy orange receptacle and a 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) long dark brown rectangular-shaped seed. Rimu is distinctive enough that it is unlikely to be misidentified except as a seedling with Manoao colensoi , which have glossier, less fine leaves.