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2. Brya ebenus - Wikipedia

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   Cocus wood is a very dense tropical hardwood with excellent musical tone quality, and was used for making flutes in England and France especially during the 19th century. [4] It is still occasionally used for wooden musical instruments such as bagpipes, clarinets, oboes, and piccolos. The branches of Brya ebenus were used as whips for slaves. [5]

3. Mixedwood stand - Wikipedia

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   Boreal mixedwood stand in Quebec, Canada. A mixedwood stand is a forest type in which 26% to 75% of the canopy is made up of softwood trees. [1]Uncertainties of the definition, extent, and potential of mixedwood types necessitate the placement of some mensurational bounds on the subject of mixedwood management, especially the distribution and component sub-types, age classes, advance growth ...

4. Vachellia seyal - Wikipedia

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   Vachellia seyal, the red acacia, known also as the shittah tree (the source of shittim wood), is a thorny, 6– to 10-m-high (20 to 30 ft) tree with a pale greenish or reddish bark. At the base of the 3–10 cm (1.2–3.9 in) feathery leaves, two straight, light grey thorns grow to 7–20 cm (2.8–7.9 in) long.

5. Woody plant - Wikipedia

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   A section of rosemary stem, an example of a woody plant, showing a typical wood structure. A woody plant is a plant that produces wood as its structural tissue and thus has a hard stem. [1] In cold climates, woody plants further survive winter or dry season above ground, as opposed to herbaceous plants that die back to the ground until spring. [2]

6. Tilia americana - Wikipedia

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   The wood is considered odorless. This makes it valuable in the manufacture of wooden utensils and furniture. It is also used for woodcarving. The inner bark is very tough and fibrous, used in the past for making ropes. [7] Basswood is a tonewood commonly used in the manufacture of solid-body electric guitars.

7. Tylosis (botany) - Wikipedia

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   In woody plants, a tylosis (plural: tyloses) is a bladder-like distension of a parenchyma cell into the lumen of adjacent vessels. The term tylosis summarises the physiological process and the resulting occlusion in the xylem of woody plants as response to injury or as protection from decay in heartwood. [1]