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The Trees of North America. For the purposes of this category, "North America" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), which calls it Northern America , namely as one of the nine "botanical continents".
Cotinus: smoke trees; Cotinus coggygria: common smoke tree Anacardiaceae (cashew family) Cotinus obovatus: American smoke tree Anacardiaceae (cashew family) 996 Harpephyllum: harpephyllum plum trees; Harpephyllum afrum: South African wild plum Anacardiaceae (cashew family) Mangifera: mangos; Mangifera caesia: jack; binjai; Malaysian mango
The following is a list of individual trees. Trees listed here are regarded as important or specific by their historical, national, locational, natural or mythological context. The list includes actual trees located throughout the world, as well as trees from myths and religions .
Map of national forests and national grasslands of the United States. The United States has 154 protected areas known as national forests, covering 188,336,179 acres (762,169 km 2; 294,275 sq mi). [1] National forests are managed by the U.S. Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [2]
A listing of lists of trees. List of individual trees, including actual and mythical trees; List of largest giant sequoias; List of old growth forests; List of oldest trees; List of superlative trees. List of superlative trees in Sweden; List of tallest trees; List of tree genera; List of trees and shrubs by taxonomic family
The Preston Twins, English elms in Brighton, England. The Preston Twins in Preston Park, Brighton, England, are the two oldest English elms in the world. Both trees are aged over 400 years and exceed 20 feet (6.1 m) in girth. They have been regularly pollarded for many years and both trunks are hollow.
Twig and buds. Acer saccharinum, commonly known as silver maple, [3] creek maple, silverleaf maple, [3] soft maple, large maple, [3] water maple, [3] swamp maple, [3] or white maple, [3] is a species of maple native to the eastern and central United States and southeastern Canada.
Numerous place names in North America are named Hemlock. For a list, see Hemlock. Hemlocks are a recurring image in the novel Ethan Frome. Author Edith Wharton described "hemlock boughs bent inward to their trunks by the weight of the snow," "intensely blue shadows of hemlocks on sunlit snow," and darkness "dropping down like a black veil from ...