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Cercis canadensis, the eastern redbud, is a large deciduous shrub or small tree, native to eastern North America from southern Michigan south to central Mexico, west to New Mexico. Species thrive as far west as California and as far north as southern Ontario. [3] It is the state tree of Oklahoma.
Old Red, biggest Eastern Redbud in Bucks County at Silver Lake Nature Center, Bristol Township. It's 35 feet high, 54 feet wide, with an 80-inch trunk. At 30, it has outlived most redbuds by a decade.
Cercis species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including mouse moth and Automeris io (both recorded on eastern redbud). The bark of C. chinensis has been used in Chinese medicine as an antiseptic. [7] Cercis fossils have been found that date to the Eocene. [8] [9]
Giant sequoia. Silvics of North America (1991), [1] a forest inventory compiled and published by the United States Forest Service, includes many conifers. [a] It superseded Silvics of Forest Trees of the United States (1965), which was the first extensive American tree inventory. [3]
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Cercis or Redbud tree Cercis canadensis, Eastern redbud; Cercis occidentalis, Western redbud; Other uses. Redbud Woods controversy, dispute at Cornell University, USA;
eastern redbud Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) 471 Cercis occidentalis: western redbud Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Cercis siliquastrum: Judas-tree Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Cladrastis: yellowwoods; Cladrastis kentukea: Kentucky yellowwood Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) 481 Dalbergia: true rosewoods; Dalbergia bariensis: Burmese rosewood
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