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Trees
Above ground, trees and shrubs perform important environmental services by providing food and shelter to people and wildlife, oxygenating the air, and beautifying the landscape. Below ground, their roots open up critical passageways for the movement of air, moisture, and soil food web members.
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Is it justified to cut trees for factories and shelter?
No, it is not justified. Deforestation could lead to many problems like global warming, erosion of soil and desertification. Floods and droughts also occur due to deforestation. Trees filter the earth and if the filtration is stopped what could happen? Loss of biodiversity is another problem which will have to be faced if trees are cut down.
What is the advantage of planting trees on the slope?
That when the tree is fully grown it may lean on your house and have to get cut down which costs alot, but you can try make it straight by using strings to tie it or even new with wooden planks to hold it straight, also it depends of its a gum tree you will have to use wood planks to make it grow straight if small trees dont worry..
What do aspen leaves look like?
http://www.hubbardbrook.org/image_library/images/Bigtooth%20Aspen%20leaf.JPG
What is the best way to remove tree roots?
First, I try to not cut them. But if there would no option but without cuting i, I have to do that.
Do the roots of a oak tree keep growing after the tree is cut down?
Cutting a tree down dos not kill it. The roots are still alive and well and often put up shoots from the cut off trunk to replace the original trees canopy. Killing the root of a tree after it is cut down often entails digging the roots up or injecting the stump with herbicide or other poisons.
What is the botanical name of ashoka tree?
The botanical name of the ashoka tree is Saraca Indica.
The are found at the foot of the Eastern and central Himalayas as well as across plains in India.
Is pinewood soft or hard wood?
Pines are soft wooded trees. Easily broken during heavy winds or ice storm.
well of course they lose their leaves every tree does thats why you go to school to learn these things
What Vegetation type is dominated bye needle-leaf evergreen trees?
Forests dominated by trees with needle like leaves are Coniferous.
What does sustainable use of the forest mean?
it means you only take what can be replaced so that whats left for your children is still the same forest.
Redwood is considered a Softwood because it is a gymnosperm BUT Redwood for flooring is considered a hardwood and it is considered the median. Using the Janka scale, redwood is 1290 and used as a comparative standard. Brazilian Cherry is considered an exotic hardwood with a Janka of 2350 or roughly 80% harder than Redwood. Now becareful when generically using the term "Redwood" as other species like Brazilian Redwood are rated as 3190. Redwood became the median as it is the most readily available hardwoods (Softwood,potato-po-tat-o). Hardwood, scientifically is determined to be any wood from a broadleaf tree and considered angiosperms (reproduce by flowers). Asking if a species is a hardwood for the purpose of selecting a hardwood floor is the not the correct method. Many people confuse the scientific vs the flooring definition of hardwood. From a marketing perspective using "Softwood" would not be enticing, unless you fall frequently and think it won't hurt as much when you land. You should be asking how durable and resilient a species is to your application. Children and pets in the home, or a clumsy handyman, may determine if the hardwood is "practical."
Where do you find a sapodilla tree?
The sapodilla tree is found mainly in the tropical rain forests of the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and Guatemala
What is the big part of tree called?
inside the tree, u have the i leartwood, xylem, cambium, phloem, and then the bark. then u have the crown which is the very top of the tree where the leave are, u have the trunk and then lastly the roots. hope i could help! :)
What are the 2 different types of broad-leaved trees?
Deciduous (looses leaves during the Autumn), and evergreen (keeps leaves all year).
northern russia has this tree we can called leopdia tree
No, cactus is not a vine even though it may be herbaceous or woody. Bushes, shrubs, trees and vines maintain stems, trunks and twigs of woody tissue while herbs manifest fleshy tissue. A cactus plant offers fleshy, succulent, thickened stems and sometimes shrub-like heights even though only the cactus genus Pereskia shows mature bark-covered stems and persistent leaves.
How do you start a ficus tree?
Fig trees propagate quite easily by seed. So planting some fig seeds will do the trick.
Also, you could grow one by slip. Cut off a short growing shoot, dip its base in rooting compound and plant it in warm damp soil. The slip will grow roots and develop.
And if you're really high tech, you can grow figs by tissue culture. Its not how figs are usually grown, though many orchids are grown in this way.
You can also lay part of a branch (no breaks and still attached to the tree) on the ground and put a brick on it. It sould root.
What are coconut palm trees used for?
The leaves are used as walls or separater when weaved (mostly for beach shacks or stands at village festivities, or roof, the center nerve of the leaf is used as tooth pick, as frame for small kites in the carribeans.
The fruit, the coconut is used as beverage when green, the gelly inside is used as desert when thin , thicker than 1/8 it is grated and put in cakes , squeezed to get coconut milk to use as cooking ingredient in food or to make sauce, and when thick and hard it is used as chicken feed or grated and squezed to get coconut oil for cooking or skin oil or hair conditioner.
The top of the tree, about 3 feet down the top, the heart is comestible and used as desert.
The shell of the fruit is used to make artcraft and also as combustible for outdoor fires, BBQ or oven. The hard part of the shell is used to make artcraft and small recipients.
The rest of the tree is used as rollers under the boats by the fishermen to get their boats in and out of the water.
What are the properties of fir wood?
It comes from deciduous trees and therefore loses its leaves in the winter and the trees are typically broadleafed.
Hardwoods are typically denser and grow slower than softwoods, and usually have an open grain--like oak and ash, but can be closed grain-like maple and poplar. Hardwoods are typically not a knotty as softwoods, so have straighter, cleaner grain patterns.
There are exceptions of course. Both balsa and English brown oak are considered hardwoods and both are soft enough to damage with bare hands.
