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• Sapwood
  ...x|thumb|right|A section of a [[Taxus|Yew]] branch showing 27 annual growth rings, pale sapwood and dark heartwood, and [[pith]] (centre dark spot). The dark
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• Dendrochronology
  [[image:tree.ring.arp.jpg|thumb|right|240px|The growth rings of an unknown tree species, at Bristol Zoo, England]] ...ssx7358.JPG|thumb|right|240px|''Pinus taeda'' Cross section showing annual rings, [[Cheraw, South Carolina]]]]
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• Dendroclimatology
  ...er when conditions favor growth, narrower when times are hard. Using tree rings, scientists have estimated many local climates for hundreds to thousands of ...s opposed to other proxy methods such as [[borehole]]s. Furthermore, tree rings respond to multiple climatic effects (temperature, moisture, cloudiness) so
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• Date Palm
  Image:Phoenix dactylifera3.jpg|Cut stump showing lack of growth rings, Merzouga, Morocco
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• Teak
  ...s for sustainable, plantation-grown teak to perform nearly on par with old-growth teak. ...es a very good price. The age of the tree can be assessed from the annual rings formed every year inside the trunk. Teak is grown extensively by forest de
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• Pedunculate Oak
  ...semble of thin (~0.1 mm) yellow or light brown lines run across the growth rings.
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• Wood
  ...edu/distribution/naturalresources/components/6413ch1.html Lesson 1: ''Tree Growth and Wood Material'' at University of Minnesota Extension] </ref> ...rowth rings are annual rings. Where there is no seasonal difference growth rings are likely to be indistinct or absent.
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• Cereus Pasacana
  ...raight or curved; the young spines are clear brown, often with alternating rings of light and dark tissue, later gray, bulbose at the base: fls. from the la
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• Bletilla
  ...m long. The [[raceme]]s of flowers emerge from the center of the years new growth before it is mature, during spring and early summer. The [[flowers]] vary i .... They are grayish-white or yellowish-white in appearance, with concentric rings and brown rootlets. They have a hard texture and do not break easily.
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• Bignoniaceae
  ...e periphery into peculiar finger-like portions, or there may be concentric rings of wood.
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• Pinus thunbergii
  ...e cones are 1-2 cm long borne in clumps of 12-20 on the tips of the spring growth. Bark is gray on young trees and small branches, changing to black and pla ...e end of the branches, if seen from above, show alternate yellow and green rings, hence the name Oculus-draconis (dragon-eye). Var. variegata, Hort., has th
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• Evergreens
  ...choice of material and providing proper conditions and protection for its growth. There are many very low evergreen plants that may contribute much to the w ...roots over sufficient area to gather enough rainfall to sustain the normal growth. The extent of fibers in the ball is increased by transplanting and root-pr
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• Greenhouse cultivation of Carnations
  ...lop into a weak plant. Those taken from the base develop a large spreading growth known as "grassy." The cuttings are severed by an outward pull and are afte ...ness, produces the finest plants in the shortest time. In a heavy soil the growth will be heavier, but slower and less branching. Set the plants about 8 inch
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• Watering
  ...Such rules, however, are only for the novice. They presuppose activity of growth, and take into account only one consideration aside from this, and that is ...ent injury from becoming too dry. It is safest to allow no plant in active growth to flag.
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• Moss
  ...e:Moss in growth rings.jpg|thumb|Moss growing in the shelter of the growth rings of a stump]] === Inhibiting moss growth ===
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• Cycas
  ...the species of Cycas are arborescent, having a trunk marked with rings of growth and with the scars of fallen petioles. The trunk is usually simple and colu ...though they have nothing in common with a palm except the general habit of growth. In Florida, according to H. Nehrling who has a plantation at Gotha, near t
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• Pecan
  Under favorable conditions of growth, the pecan tree attains very large size, trunk diameters of 4 to 6 feet bei ...up to 12 to 15 inches at points 20 to 30 feet from the ground. An abundant growth of strong shoots was secured by hacking the bark of the trunk for some dist
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• Evaporating Fruit
  ...he modern industry is not yet a half-century old. Its almost inconceivable growth in America in this brief time is one of the industrial phenomena of the tim An idea of the dried-fruit industry in the United States and of its great growth in recent years may be obtained from the following figures from the census
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• Diospyros kaki
  '''Growth Habit''': The persimmon is a multitrunked or single-stemmed deciduous tree ...cally borne in threes. Commonly, 1 to 5 flowers per twig emerge as the new growth extends (typically March). Persimmon trees are usually either male or femal
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• Violet
  ...ed planting of the single varieties, on the whole there has been no marked growth in the actual area under cultivation. The violet still offers some unique o ...object is to secure a good strong healthy compact plant and to induce free growth at all times, as with such strong free-growing plants developed by October
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