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Scientific name - Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. Synonyms -- Popular names - Black gum, Tupelo, Distribution and Habitat - originally from Eastern and Central North America, grows on wet soil, light, alluvial, but also on small slopes and dry clay. Description - dioecious tree, 25 meters high. Dark brown bark with deep cracks. Glabra or slightly hairy stalk, thin, red-brown, smooth; mugurele terminal 3-5 mm, nested, 6-8 scales visible, few pubescent and Chile, bicolori with red edges and the rest suprafatei green. Crown pyramid. Leaves alternate, simple, 6-18 x 3-7 cm, pubescent or slightly ribbed tomentos, 1 cm long, limb obovata-lanceolata or elliptic, entire, toothed edges, top mucronata, the round, hairy surface of the ribs is low, with exceptthe main ribs is very pubescent. Flowers in bunches of 2-14, greenish white, female flowers are Sesi. Blooms in April-June. Fruit drupe, oval, dark blue to black, 1 cm long, 2-3 on a peduncle, peduncle 2-3 cm long. Growth rate - fast. Tolerances - drought and shade. It adapts to different soil types. Requirements - grows well in moist but well drained soil, pH 5.5-6.5, in full sun or semi-shade. Management - transplanteaza be difficult. The young plant is protected from the cold winds of winter. Skims are autumn. Propagation - by seeds, the seeds must be stratified in moist sand for 60-90 days, it looks like spring. Diseases and pests -- Natural partners and Garden - Gymnocladus dioica, Lagerstroemia indica, Liquidambar styraciflua, Persea borbonia, Quercus alba, Sassafras albidum, Viburnum nudum, Zelkova serrata. Cultivars and varieties - N. sylvatica var. biflora (Swamp Tupelo). N. sylvatica 'Miss Scarlet' red autumn leaves and large blue fruits. N. sylvatica 'Autumn Cascade'. Properties and Utition - is used as ornamental trees for color leaves, autumn. Myth, Legend and Folklore -- References Jacqueline Herit - Complete Trees, Shrubs and Hedges - Creative Homeowner, 2006 James S. Fralish, Scott B. Franklin - Taxonomy and Ecology of Woody Plants in North American Forests - WileyBlackwell, 2002 Melanie Choukas-Bradley, Tina Thieme Brown - Ann Illustrated Guide to Eastern Woodland Wildflowers and Trees - University of Virginia Press, 2004 Ray R. Hicks - Ecology and Management of Central Hardwood Forests - WileyBlackwell, 1998 Richard M. DeGraaf - Trees, Shrubs and Vines for Attracting Birds - University Press of New England, 2002 Susan A. Roth - Taylor's Guide to Trees - Mofflin Houghton, 2001
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![]() ![]() Deciduous tree, native (Romania), 15 m high. The stem is often crooked, irregular. Crown rare, bright, large and irregular. Bark is thick, deeply wrinkled, forming a cracked ritidom in rectangular plates, dark brown. ![]() Shrub or small tree, evergreen, 1-4 m high. Prostrata strain or upward. Green stalk, glabra, thin, flexible, geniculati. Leaves 2-6 cm long, oblong-elliptic, top obtuse or acute, margin fine teeth 3 ribs prominent upper front glabra, 12-15 mm long stalks. ![]() Leycesteria formosa, originating from the Himalayas and southwestern China. The species cultivated as ornamental gardens. ![]() Originally from Europe, grows spontaneously in the Netherlands, the soil rich in forests, and forest edge. Description - shrub, 1,3-3,5 m high; ritidom smooth, exfoliating in strips is, open gray on the outside, Brown -yellow on the inside, branched stem. Leaves opposite, 3-lobate, margin iregulat evening, the round or truncata, top acuminata, glabra on the upper face, lower face pubescent, dark green in summer, yellow-orange in autumn. ![]() Shrub 1.8-4 m tall, multiple stems, erect, clocks the fruit. Buds small, round, naked, brown-pubescent. Scaorta smooth lenticele, by burning aromatic, dark gray-brown. Leaves opposite, decidue, simple ovata to elliptic, entire, aromatic if they are broken, shiny, dense tomentoase inside, spring green, autumn is yellow or yellow-versa. ![]() ![]() Cerastium tomentosum - is a commonly grown rock-garden, often escape from cultivation. ![]() Dovyalis caffra - fruit edible, with a high vitamin C content (80-120 mg/g), potassium (600 mg), and makes an excellent jam. ![]() Herbaceous annual, monoecious, climbing, 1-4 m. Leaves alternate, palmate-lobate, lobes acute and angulosi-toothed, 7-20 x 7-15 cm, scabrous, 5-20 cm long stalks. Flowers unisexuat-mono, pentamere, calyx Vilos, 5 sepa narrow-triangular, 0.5-1 cm long; Corola campanulata, yellow-gold petals 2 cm long ![]() Leycesteria formosa, originating from the Himalayas and southwestern China. The species cultivated as ornamental gardens. ![]() Tellima grandiflora is a native herbaceous species in North America, grows in forests and on the walls umriti. Tellima genus name is an anagram for Mitella, belongs to the family Saxifragaceae. |
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