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* Depending on the growing conditions, live oaks vary from the shrubby to large and spreading: typical open-grown trees reach 15 meters (50 feet) in height, but may span nearly 50 meters.

Giant chinkapin (Castanopsis chrysophylla), also called golden chinkapin, giant evergreen-chinkapin, and goldenleaf chestnut, is an interesting hardwood species in a landscape dominated by coniferous forests.

* A species of Albizia , native to tropical southern Asia , and widely cultivated and naturalised in other tropical and subtropical regions. * A tropical tree with compound leaves and clustered yellow-green flowers.

It is used for making tools. * The fruit is a source of oil. * An easily grown plant, it succeeds in any soil of good or moderate fertility, ranging from acid to shallow chalk. * This species is closely related to C.

* Habitat and Range: sandy, gravelly, or rocky slopes, often growing in areas underlain by limestone bedrock. A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of kidney complaints and TB.

* The wood is hard, heavy, rather strong, tough, elastic, brittle, coarse-grained. Used for tool handles, furniture etc. * A fairly wind resistant tree, it can be grown as part of a shelterbelt planting.

The species is often smaller, stunted and twisted in coastal exposures. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. * Of symmetrical conical habit; needles stiff, often twisted, dark green, to 7"; cones 2-4 1/2"; native to California, where it is used...

* The Canary Island Pine ( Pinus canariensis ) is a species in the genus Pinus , family Pinaceae , native and endemic to the outer Canary Islands ( Gran Canaria , Tenerife , Hierro and La Palma ) in the Atlantic Ocean .

On the Pacific coast of Mexico, throughout Central America and the Caribbean, to the lowlands and foothills of most of South America up to 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) altitude, finding its southern limit at about latitude 28°S in Argentina.

It is a moderately long-lived hardwood with a light-colored wood, yellowish gray to light brown with yellow streaks. * Ridjica and Sombor in Serbia (where it is called kustelic or galagunja) and Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, is known for the extensive...

* The acorns of the chestnut oak are 1.5–3 cm long and 1–2 cm broad, among the largest of native American oaks, surpassed in size only by the bur oak and possibly swamp chestnut oak.

Scrub jays prefer burned sites for acorn caching. Scrub jays cache about 5,000 acorns each year over an average home range of about 6.2 acres (2.5 ha), effectively seedling at a rate of 800 acorns per acre (2,000 per ha).

As a Bonsai, the Holm Oak will not produce many flowers or acorns. * It is a member of the white oak section of the genus, with acorns that mature in a single summer. Oaks grown for bonsai needs about 4 hours of direct sun/day but should be in partial...

* It grows with various species of Quercus and a variety of other pines . * Pinus lawsonii occurs in forest and woodland at 1300-2600 m elevation. * Climate is warm-temperate to temperate with 600-1500 mm annual precipitation and a November to May dry...

It has also been introduced to Belize , Costa Rica and Nicaragua , growing at 1200–3000 m altitude. * Often has drooping branchlets; foliage green; half-inch cones; native to Mexico and Central America.

* Prosopis chilensis , carob , is a species of South American legume family which dwells mainly central Chile, south of Peru , Andean- Chaco ecotone in Argentina . It has a highly developed root system so it is very time consuming when you want to remove...

* It often has several trunks, the shoots are green, often with a whitish to pink or violet waxy coating wen young. * Compound leaves, stems green or purple with a glaucous "bloom"; grows most often along streams and ditches but does well elsewhere; female...

* Can tolerate dry and warm sites, can grow on various types of soil. * The cones are cylindrical, 9-18 cm long, greenish-pink to purple before maturity. * Growing up to 25-30m high and up to 1m in diameter.

* Buddhist legend tells that Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment (bodhi) while meditating underneath a Ficus religiosa. Peepal tree is of great medicinal value. The fruits are small figs 1–1.5 cm in diameter, green ripening to purple.

* Can tolerate dry and warm sites, can grow on various types of soil. * The cones are cylindrical, 9-18 cm long, greenish-pink to purple before maturity. * Growing up to 25-30m high and up to 1m in diameter.

* Carpinus orientalis (Oriental Hornbeam) is a hornbeam native from southeastern Europe to northern Iran and occurs usually on hot dry sites at lower altitudes in comparison to the European Hornbeam.

* Cultivated in China for the rutin contained in its leaves and ovaries. * A yellow dye is obtained from the seedpods and the flowers * S. * Used to make the strong, springy curved "enju wood" handle used on the traditional Japanese woodworking adze,...

* Myrtle oak features shiny, leathery leaves (to 2” long) which are dark green above and yellow-green to orange-brown beneath. Foliage is considered to be evergreen (leaves persist on the tree until new growth commences in spring).

* The Eldar pine is treated as a species (Pinus eldarica) by some authors; it is adapted to a drier climate with a summer rainfall peak. * The Afghan pine prefers warmer temperatures than most of the Pinus genus.

* Cupressus bakeri , the Modoc Cypress , Siskiyou Cypress or Baker Cypress , is a species of cypress native to the United States , in a restricted area of northern California ( Siskiyou , Modoc , Shasta and Plumas Counties) and southwest Oregon (very...

* A decidious Tree growing to 30 m. * A species of maple native to the hardwood forests of northeastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Ontario, and south to Georgia and Texas.

The red seed pods are brilliant, opening to revel shiny black seeds. * Common in thickets and in thin secondary forests in lowlands and low mountains of central and southern Japan.