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Eco-friendly, affordable, and natural, foraged items like branches and leaves make some of the best fall decor.Learn the best types of trees, shrubs, and leaves to search for and how to best ...
Quercus chrysolepis, commonly termed canyon live oak, canyon oak, golden cup oak or maul oak, is a North American species of evergreen oak.Its leaves are a glossy dark green on the upper surface with prominent spines; a further identification arises from the leaves of canyon live oak being geometrically flat.
Diospyros whyteana (also known as the bladdernut, swartbas, wild coffee or umTenatane) is a small African tree of the ebony family. Bearing dark green, strikingly glossy leaves and creamy fragrant flowers, it is increasingly cultivated in Southern African gardens as an attractive and strong ornamental tree. [4]
Western white pine is a large tree, regularly growing to 30–50 metres (98–164 ft) tall. It is a member of the white pine group, Pinus subgenus Strobus, and like all members of that group, the leaves ('needles') are in fascicles (bundles) of five, [5] with a deciduous sheath.
The leaf width is approximately one half its length. Each leaf is matte green with an underneath pale green appearance; moreover, the leaf is covered with abundant soft fuzz, yielding an almost velvety feeling. When a fresh leaf is rubbed or broken, an aromatic scent is exuded, evoking a forest odor. The wood is a dull brown approaching yellow.
Tree up to 30 meters tall which can be evergreen or semi-evergreen. Can be up to 1 meter diameter at breast height and may be slightly buttressed or fluted at the base branchlets with white lenticels. Leaves imparipinnate, with petiole and rhachis up to 35 cm long. Leaflets opposite or subopposite. Flowers white or pinkish white, sweet-scented.
The leaves are arranged in opposite decussate pairs or whorls of three; in adulthood they are scale-like, 1–2.5 mm (1 ⁄ 16 – 1 ⁄ 8 in) long (up to 5 mm) and 1–1.5 mm broad. The cones are berrylike , 7–15 mm ( 1 ⁄ 4 – 9 ⁄ 16 in) wide, green when young and maturing to orange-brown with a whitish waxy bloom,.
The bark on young trees is smooth and gray with resin blisters, becoming red-brown, rough and fissured on old trees, usually less than 5 centimeters (2 in) thick; the inner bark is reddish. [5] The leaves are needle-like, 1–3.5 cm ( 1 ⁄ 2 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long, glaucous blue-green above and below with strong stomal bands, and a blunt to ...
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