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In fruit trees, bees are an essential part of the pollination process for the formation of fruit. [2] Pollination of fruit trees around the world has been highly studied for hundreds of years. [1] Much is known about fruit tree pollination in temperate climates, but much less is known about fruit tree pollination in tropical climates. [1]
The branches of Sterculia foetida are arranged in whorls; they spread horizontally.The tree's bark is smooth and gray. The leaves are placed at the end of branchlets; they have petioles ranging from 12.5 and 23 centimetres (4.9 and 9.1 inches) in length; the blades are palmately compound, containing 7–9 leaflets.
The impact of pollination varies by crop. For example, almond production in the United States, an $11 billion industry based almost exclusively in the state of California, is heavily dependent on imported honeybees for pollination of almond trees. Almond industry uses up to 82% of the services in the pollination market.
Dipteryx oleifera (syns.Dipteryx panamensis and Coumarouna panamensis), the eboe, choibá, Tonka Bean or almendro (almond in Spanish), is a species of emergent rainforest tree up to 165 feet (fifty meters) tall [2] in the family Fabaceae (the subfamily Papilionoidea), native to Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador.
Terminalia catappa is a large tropical tree in the leadwood tree family, Combretaceae, native to Asia, Australia, the Pacific, Madagascar and Seychelles. [1] Common names in English include country almond, Indian almond, Malabar almond, sea almond, tropical almond, [3] beach almond [4] and false kamani.
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Upload file; Search. Search. Appearance. Donate; ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... the East Indian almond, [2] is a tree species in the genus Terminalia ...
Sterculia colorata, the scarlet sterculia (also known as bonfire tree, colored sterculia and Indian almond, in Assamese ওদাল (odal) and in Marathi known as "कौशी" [kaushi]), is a medium-sized tree with spreading branches. It sheds leaves before the onset of flowering. After leaf-shedding, buds sprout and develop into flowers ...