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-only confier with "whorals"
-bogs; lake or stream fills in
-hydrophytes
-filled in bogs lead to less
-deciduous |
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-5 needles in bundle
-most sought after lumber
-light wood=floats high
-king's broad arrow
-ship masts |
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-bundles of 2
-grows w/white pine
-brittle needles
-less specific niche than white pines |
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-resistant to pollution
-waxy, unbrittle needles
-black inner bark |
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-needles 1"-2"
-pyrophyte;needs fire to open cones
-Kirkland's warbler:only lives in jack pine forests |
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-#1 Christmas tree
-needles 2"-3" long
-exotic species; most common pine in Europe
-orange bark |
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-single needles;roll & rough
-chewing gum
-xxxxx moose biome
-xxxxx goose airplane : howard huges
-musical instruments (Stradivarius violins) |
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-smooth, can't roll needles
-#2 Christmas Tree
-resin: used for microscope slides, root canals, respiratory medicine
-nurse tree |
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-two ranked needles
-not valuable for timber
-tannins in bark
-climax tree in dunes
-most shade tolerant tree
-doesn't split |
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-needles not white underneath
-does well on parkways
-"the wood eternal"; rot resistant, mined from swamps |
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-makes best pencils
-berries flavor gin
-***** chests:repel moths
-***** rust; also attacks apple trees |
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-saved Jacque Carte and crew: tea
-inside of birch bark canoes
-flat sprigs
-first tree taken back to Old World (Paris)
-rot resistant |
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-fossil tree
-maiden hair tree
-fights Alzheimers, depression; widely sold in Europe |
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-oil: helped horse coughs
-very soft wood: doesn't splinter
-used for peg legs
-food in fruit:poisonous |
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-leaflets taper to a tip
-state tree of Ohio
-leaf scar: looks like buckeye |
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-weed plant; doesn't live long
-soft maple
-puts out more sap than sugar maples |
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-light but STRONG wood
-used for baseball bats, hockey sticks, bushel baskets |
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-legume
-twice as durable as oak
-attacked by larval borer
-used for fence posts
-make own fertilizer
-#1 firewood |
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-extremely hard wood, harder than oak
-invasive in Australia: huge thorns
-MacConnell's curse: pest in Australia
-one of few legumes NOT to have a relationship with nitrogen fixers |
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-hummingbirds love it
-flower for one month or more
-aggressive exotic |
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-brought in for the silk trade
-one or two teeth at base of leaflet
-alleliopathic: makes poisons that poison other plants
-male pollen STINKS |
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-hairy stem
-big red fruit
-turn purple
-named for buck antler velvet
-hollow stems |
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-Rowan trees: in almost every cemetary in UK
-Hermione's wand |
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-beautiful and valuable: veneer
-poached
-doesn't warp
-used for rifle stocks
-stain = orange |
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-extremely hard wood: used for golf club heads, bobbins
-tend to be in understory
-used as a toothbrush
-curved veins |
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-soft maple
-silverish in underside
-V's |
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-soft maple
-leaves turn crimson
-swamp maple: grows on wettest ground |
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-hard maple
-grow slowly, dense wood
-much denser than ash
-climax plant at dunes |
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-hard maple
-resistant to pollution
-backs of Stradivarius violins |
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-Indian Bean Tree
-Sphinx Moth caterpillars |
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-ornamental
-Judas hanged himself: branches sag
-beautiful pink flowers |
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-1st export from Roanoke, Jamestown
-oil: panacia, cure-all
-pockets of resin: pop when burned
-file powder: ground spice for gumbo |
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-understory plant at dunes
-Zebra Swallowtail likes to eat
-displaced by bananas
-stranded species; no close ancestors |
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-almost disease free
-pollenately by beetles
-one of the first flowering plants |
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-extremely hard wood: used for piano keys
-poached around Christmas |
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-***** nut gum
-dunes climax species
-Shakespeare: people in plays carve into trees
-smooth bark |
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-big exclamation points
-gopher wood: have to "go fer" more
-come from Italy
-propagate vegetatively
-planted in bad soil |
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-also grow in West: used to hang people
-thick bark to survive prairie fires
-fastest growing tree in the US, live about 150 years |
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-widespread: Alaska to Mexico
-Indiana legends about quivering
-#1 food for beaver
-sprout from cut down stump
-41,000 acres: 1 cloned tree
-pulped for paper |
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-most beautiful wood of all poplars
-firm thick leaf |
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-exotic
-white velvet on bottom
-can look like maple leaves |
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-bee trees: ******** honey in Europe
-favorite wood of wood carvers |
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-spread by birds: eat berries
-insect galls: warts on leaves
-witches broom branches |
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-silkworm trade
-loved & spread by birds |
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-more species in North America than any other continent
-arctic=dwarf
-used to weave wicker furniture
-asprin in bark
-first to green in spring
-reproduce asexually |
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-prunus w/thorns
-native fruits:not eaten
-many cultivars |
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-no thorns
-long tapering tip
-George Washington's tree: exotic |
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-good lumber: pilings for piers, etc
-hated for firewood: cross fibers don't split
-grow like a fountain
-used for chair seats, black smith ambles |
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-reddish inner bark
-poultices: herb packets to cure wounds
-medicinal uses: cough drops, etc
-Washington and crew: survived Valley Forge by eating inner bark |
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-resistant to Dutch Elm Disease
-not as beautiful; spindly, messy |
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-white bark
-hydrophyte
-sprouts after forest fires
-catkins: pollen |
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-most important native american tree
-used for canoes
-Mother's Day tree
-wood rots, but bark resistant
-catkins: pollen
-too hot, dry in Chicago |
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-#1 lumber hardwood tree
-dense
-Old Ironside Boats: U.S.S. Constiution
-1 year to make fruits |
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-2 years to make fruits
-pointy lobes
-not as good as other species for lumber |
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-#2 most important lumber in lower US
-"liquid amber" |
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-large enough that inside rots out, hollowed, big enough to live in
-biggest leaf of any broadleaf
-astronauts: could see from space
-most massive broadleaf |
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-big beautiful yellow flowers
-tallest broadleaf tree
-"yellow poplar" |
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-big sharp thorns
-cardiotonic |
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-furry bottom
-leaves not uniform |
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-big flower buds
-similar to poplars
-symmetrical |
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-Andrew Jackson's namesake
-sumpler beam in houses
-climax forests around Chicago
-fruits:nuts |
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