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  2. Boscia albitrunca - Wikipedia

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    Boscia albitrunca, commonly known as the shepherd tree or shepherd's tree (Afrikaans: Witgat, Sotho: Mohlôpi, Tswana: Motlôpi, Venda: Muvhombwe, Xhosa: Umgqomogqomo, Zulu: Umvithi), is a protected species of South African tree in the caper family. [1] It is known for having the deepest known root structure of any plant at: -68 metres (223 ft ...

  3. Pando (tree) - Wikipedia

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    A male clonal organism, Pando has an estimated 47,000 stems (ramets) that appear to be individual trees, but are connected by a root system that spans 42.8 ha (106 acres). Pando is the largest tree by weight and landmass and the largest known aspen clone.

  4. Sassafras - Wikipedia

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    Sassafras, once a key ingredient in commercial American root beers, is no longer used, as its oil was banned in 1960 by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in all commercially mass-produced foods and medications. The FDA's directive was in response to health concerns about the carcinogenicity of safrole, a major constituent of sassafras ...

  5. Banyan - Wikipedia

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    One who knows this tree is the knower of the Vedas." (Bg 15.1) Here the material world is described as a tree whose roots are upwards and branches are below. We have experience of a tree whose roots are upward: if one stands on the bank of a river or any reservoir of water, he can see that the trees reflected in the water are upside down.

  6. Tree Roots - Wikipedia

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    Tree Roots is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh that he painted in July 1890 when he lived in Auvers-sur-Oise, France. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Likely Van Gogh's final painting, it is an example of the double-square canvases that he employed in his last landscapes.

  7. Tree - Wikipedia

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    The roots require oxygen to respire and only a few species such as mangroves and the pond cypress (Taxodium ascendens) can live in permanently waterlogged soil. [50] In the soil, the roots encounter the hyphae of fungi. Many of these are known as mycorrhiza and form a mutualistic relationship with the tree roots. Some are specific to a single ...

  8. Buttress root - Wikipedia

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    Buttress roots vary greatly in size from barely discernable to many square yards (square meters) of surface. The largest for which there is photographic evidence is a Moreton Bay Fig ( Ficus macrophylla ) at Fig Tree Pocket (an outlying district of Brisbane , Queensland ) which was photographed in 1866 with an adult man.

  9. Aerial root - Wikipedia

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    The grey mangrove (Avicennia marina)'s pneumatophorous aerial roots A Heptapleurum arboricola indoor bonsai soon after branch pruning to show extensive aerial roots.Banyan tree of undetermined species in Fort Myers, Florida European beech with aerial roots in a wet Scottish Glen.