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The Propagation of Christmas trees is the series of procedures carried out to grow new Christmas trees. Many different species of evergreen trees are used for Christmas trees. The most common of these species are classified in the four genera: pines, spruces, firs, and cypress. Christmas trees can be grown from seed or from root cuttings.
Christmas tree cultivation is an agricultural, forestry, and horticultural occupation which involves growing pine, spruce, and fir trees specifically for use as Christmas trees. The first Christmas tree farm was established in 1901, but most consumers continued to obtain their trees from forests until the 1930s and 1940s.
Christmas tree production occurs worldwide on Christmas tree farms, in artificial tree factories and from native strands of pine and fir trees. Christmas trees , pine and fir trees purposely grown for use as a Christmas tree, are grown on plantations in many western nations, including Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The life cycle of a Christmas tree from the seed to a 2-metre (7 ft) tree takes, depending on species and treatment in cultivation, between eight and twelve years. First, the seed is extracted from cones harvested from older trees. These seeds are then usually grown in nurseries and then sold to Christmas tree farms at an age of three to four ...
Fraser fir has been used more times as the White House Christmas tree than any other tree. The Christmas decoration trade is a multimillion-dollar business in the southern Appalachians. North Carolina produces the majority of Fraser fir Christmas trees. [17] It requires from seven to ten years in the field to produce a 6–7-foot-tall (1.8–2. ...
Christmas tree is applied to a number of plants: fir, spruce, pine, balsam or other evergreen trees decorated for Christmas; Pinus pinea or the Italian Stone Pine, is another plant commonly sold in stores as a potted live plant. [9] Christmas rose can be any of the following: Helleborus ssp., especially Helleborus niger
A Robinson R44 Raven II helicopter lifting Christmas trees using a belly hook, a long line, and a remote hook at a Christmas tree farm in Oregon. While the first Christmas tree farm may have appeared as early as 1901, Christmas tree production in the United States was largely limited to what could be harvested from natural forests until the 1950s.
Ceratopetalum gummiferum, the New South Wales Christmas bush, is a tall shrub or small tree popular in cultivation due to its sepals that turn bright red-pink at around Christmas time. [ 1 ] The specific name gummiferum alludes to the large amounts of gum that is discharged from cut bark.