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2. Topiary - Wikipedia

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   Topiary animal in Tulcán, Ecuador Jacques Cartier Park, Gatineau, Canada. Topiary is the horticultural practice of training perennial plants by clipping the foliage and twigs of trees, shrubs and subshrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes, [1] whether geometric or fanciful. The term also refers to plants which have been shaped in ...

3. Thuja occidentalis - Wikipedia

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   Thuja occidentalis, also known as northern white-cedar, [1] eastern white-cedar, [2] or arborvitae, [2] [3] is an evergreen coniferous tree, in the cypress family Cupressaceae, which is native to eastern Canada and much of the north-central and northeastern United States.

4. Taxus baccata - Wikipedia

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   It is the tree originally known as yew, though with other related trees becoming known, it may be referred to as common yew, [5] European yew, or in North America English yew. [6] It is a woodland tree in its native range, and is also grown as an ornamental tree, hedge or topiary.

5. Quercus ilex - Wikipedia

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   Quercus ilex, the holm oak, [2] [3] also (ambiguously, as many oaks are evergreen) evergreen oak, [4] is a large evergreen oak native to the Mediterranean region. It is a member of the section Ilex of the genus, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] with acorns that mature in a single summer.

6. Thuja - Wikipedia

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   Thuja are evergreen trees growing from 10 to 200 feet (3 to 61 metres) tall, with stringy-textured reddish-brown bark. The shoots are flat, with side shoots only in a single plane. The leaves are scale-like and 1 to 10 mm (0.039 to 0.394 in) long, except young seedlings in their first year, which have needle-like leaves.

7. Live oak - Wikipedia

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   Live oak was widely used in early American butt shipbuilding.Because of the trees' short height and low-hanging branches, lumber from live oaks was used in curved parts of the frame, such as knee braces (single-piece, L-shaped braces that spring inward from the side and support the deck), in which the grain runs perpendicular to structural stress, making for exceptional strength.