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Quercus rysophylla, the loquat leaf oak, is a Mexican species of oak in the red oak section (Quercus section Lobatae). It is native to the Sierra Madre Oriental in the States of Tamaulipas , Nuevo León , San Luis Potosí , Veracruz , and Hidalgo in northeastern Mexico.
The loquat's wood is used as an alternative to pear wood and works well to make rulers/other writing instruments. [29] The loquat's flowers are used to make perfume in Europe, although its yield is considered low. Powdered loquat leaves are also used to treat diarrhea, depression, and to help counteract alcoholic intoxication. [29]
A common way to characterize the biomass allocation of a vegetative plant is to separate the plant in the organs of interest (e.g. leaves, stems, roots) and determine the biomass of these organs – generally on a dry mass basis - independently. The Leaf Mass Fraction (LMF) is then calculated as leaf dry mass / total plant dry mass, the Stem ...
Ficus saussureana, commonly known as the loquat-leaved fig, loquat-leaf fig, old Calabar fig, or nonko, [3] [4] is a species of flowering plant in the fig family.It is native to west and central Africa, [5] with a native range spanning Guinea to South Sudan, western Kenya, and northwestern Tanzania.
Another example is the loquat, also known as Japanese plum and Japanese medlar, as well as nispero, bibassier and wollmispel elsewhere. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] In South Asia and Southeast Asia, Jambul , a fruit from tropical tree in family Myrtaceae , is similarly sometimes referred to 'damson plums', and it is different from damson plums found in Europe ...
Desiccated potato plants prior to harvest. Pre-harvest crop desiccation is the application of an agent to a crop just before harvest to kill the leaves and/or plants so that the crop dries out from environmental conditions, or "dry-down", more quickly and evenly.
Leaves shed in autumn tend to have a very low nitrogen content and are often dry. Their main constituents, cellulose and lignin , are two recalcitrant molecules resistant to degradation. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Because of this, autumn leaves break down far more slowly than most other compost ingredients which may take a very long time on their own.
Rhaphiolepis (/ ˌ r æ f i ˈ ɒ l ɪ p ɪ s / RAF-ee-OL-ip-iss or / ˌ r æ f i oʊ ˈ l ɛ p ɪ s / RAF-ee-oh-LEP-iss) [2] is a genus of about fifteen species of evergreen shrubs and small trees in the family Rosaceae, native to warm temperate and subtropical East Asia and Southeast Asia, from southern Japan, southern Korea and southern China, south to Thailand and Vietnam.