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Growing-in-a-rock (石付 ishizuke or ishitsuki) is a style in which the roots of the tree are growing in soil contained within the cracks and holes of the rock. [ citation needed ] While the majority of bonsai specimens feature a single tree, there are well-established style categories for specimens with multiple trunks.
A heath (/ ˈ h iː θ /) is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths [1] with—especially in Great Britain—a cooler and damper climate.
Aside from tree waratah, it has also been called the satin oak, pink silky oak, satin silky oak, red silky oak, red oak, lowland bull oak, [6] and Queensland waratah. [2] The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek allo- 'other' or 'strange' and xylon 'wood' and refers to their unusual cell architecture compared with the related genera Telopea ...
An earth lodge is a semi-subterranean building covered partially or completely with earth, best known from the Native American cultures of the Great Plains and Eastern Woodlands. Most earth lodges are circular in construction with a dome-like roof, often with a central or slightly offset smoke hole at the apex of the dome. [1]