Redwood

Nicholas J. Vacanti embed I.D. 12/10/2012 Term Project Plant fellowship: redwood FOREST * The plant community I have selected, as a guide for creating my garden, is the sequoia Forest. REDWOOD FOREST SPECIES * Redwood (sequoia sempervirens) * Sequoia sempervirens is the sole living species of the genus Sequoia in the cypress family Cupressaceae. Common names include soaring redwood, California redwood, and ogre redwood. It is an evergreen, presbyopic-lived, monoecious tree living 12001800 historic period or more. This species includes the tallest trees on Earth, reaching up to 379 feet in pinnacle (without the roots) and up to 26 feet in diam at embrace height. Before commercialised logging and clearing began by the 1850s, this massive tree occurred by nature in an estimated 2,100,000 acres on much of coastal northerly California and the southwestern street corner of coastal Oregon. An estimated 95% or more of the original old-growth re dwood forest has been cut down, repayable to its excellent properties for use as lumber in construction. * pacific Dogwood (genus Cornus nuttallii) * The Pacific dogwood, Cornus nuttallii (syn.

Benthamidia nuttallii), is a species of dogwood immanent to western North the States from the lowlands of southern British capital of South Carolina to the mountains of southern California, with an upcountry population in central Idaho. The leaves argon opposite, simple, oval, 8-12 cm long and 5-8 cm broad. The flowers are individually lesser and inconspicuous, 2-3 mm across, produced in a dense, rounde d, greenish- whiten flowerhead 2 cm diameter! ; the 4-8 large white petals are actually bracts, each bract 4-7 cm long and broad. The harvest-home is a compound pink-red berry closely 3 cm diameter, containing 50-100 small seeds; it is edible, though not in truth palatable. somewhat Plateau Indian tribes used the bark as a laxative and to induce vomiting. * The lovely, butterflylike blooms of dogwoods herald the beginning of spring, and the rise continues into overwinter with the...If you want to get a full essay, pronounce it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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