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Acer negundo, also known as the box elder, boxelder maple, Manitoba maple or ash-leaved maple, is a species of maple native to North America from Canada to Honduras. [3] It is a fast-growing, short-lived tree with opposite, ash-like compound leaves.
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The tree could only safely be cut while chanting a rhyme to the Elder Mother. [34] Romani people believe burning elder wood brings bad luck. [35] A wand made from the branch of an elder tree plays a pivotal role in the final book of the Harry Potter series, which was almost named Harry Potter and the Elder Wand. [36] [37]
Common names include box and boxwood. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The boxes are native to western and southern Europe, southwest, southern and eastern Asia, Africa, Madagascar, northernmost South America, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean, with the majority of species being tropical or subtropical; only the European and some Asian species are ...
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Cydalima perspectalis or the box tree moth is a species of moth of the family Crambidae, first described by Francis Walker, the English entomologist, in 1859.Native to Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, far-east Russia and India, [1] it has invaded Europe; first recorded in Germany in 2006, then Switzerland and the Netherlands in 2007, Great Britain in 2008, France and Austria in 2009, [2] [3] [4 ...
The petioles are prickly with swollen bases. In the autumn the leaves turn to a peculiar bronze red (touched with yellow) that makes the tree conspicuous and attractive. [2] The habit of growth and general appearance of Aralia spinosa and related tree-forming Aralia species are unique. It is usually found as a group of unbranched stems, rising ...
Sambucus racemosa is medium-sized shrub growing 2–4 m (7–13 ft) (rarely 6 m (20 ft)) tall. The stems are soft, with a broad pith.. Each individual leaf is composed of 5 to 7 leaflike leaflets, each of which is up to 4–8 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 3 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) (rarely to 16 cm (6 + 1 ⁄ 4 in)) long, lance-shaped to narrowly oval, and irregularly serrated along the edges.