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Rubus parviflorus is a dense shrub up to 2.5 meters (8 feet) tall with canes no more than 1.5 centimeters (1 ⁄ 2 inch) in diameter, often growing in large clumps which spread through the plant's underground rhizome.
The plant can be found from Alaska across most of western Canada and in the western and north-central United States. [7] It grows from sea level in the north of the range, up to 2,600 m (8,530 ft) elevation in California and 3,400 m (11,200 ft) in the Rocky Mountains. [2] [5] [3] It is a common shrub in the forest understory, [20] as well as ...
Amelanchier (/ æ m ə ˈ l æ n ʃ ɪər / am-ə-LAN-sheer), [1] also known as shadbush, shadwood or shadblow, serviceberry or sarvisberry (or just sarvis), juneberry, saskatoon, sugarplum, wild-plum [2] or chuckley pear, [3] is a genus of about 20 species of deciduous-leaved shrubs and small trees in the rose family ().
The plant is a deciduous shrub, growing to a maximum of 1–4 metres (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 –13 feet). [5] The leaves are 6.5 centimetres (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long, green above, and whitish and brownish below. The fruit is usually red, [5] but one variety has yellow berries. [citation needed] The berries have a bitter taste. [5] It is a non-legume nitrogen ...
Parts of the plant, including the foliage and fruit, are food for wild animals such as mule deer, black bears, woodrats and many resident and migrating birds, as well as livestock. [11] Many cattle, goats, and sheep consider the berry of this plant to be a palatable food source, but is only heavily utilized where the annual growth of this plant ...
Practical Farm Ideas is a printed magazine covering all aspects of agriculture. [1] [2] Published four times a year by MIDO Publications, the content features agricultural machinery devised and built by farmers in their workshops. [3] Many of these one-off innovations have wide application in the industry.
Bitou bush can be distinguished from boneseed in part due to its more rounded sprawling habit to 1.5–2 m (4.9–6.6 ft), less noticeably toothy leaf margins and seeds that are egg-like rather than spherical. [2] [5] [7] [8] Both boneseed and bitou bush hybridise readily, however, so examples of plants demonstrating a fusion of traits is ...
A planter is a farm implement, usually towed behind a tractor, that sows (plants) seeds in rows throughout a field. [1] [2] It is connected to the tractor with a drawbar or a three-point hitch. Planters lay the seeds down in precise manner along rows.