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The main conservation threats are the replacement of forests by rubber plantations, and more recently by oil palm plantations, mining, lumbering, unsustainable firewood collection, charcoal production, the introduction of alien species, slash-and-burn cultivation practices and the uncontrolled hunting and harvesting of wild animals and plants ...
Plumeria trees are small or low shrubs. The leaves grow at tips of their branches. Various species and cultivar have various leaf shape and arrangements. [10] [3] The leaves of P. alba are narrow and corrugated, whereas leaves of P. pudica have an elongated shape and glossy, dark-green color.
Vaccinium ovatum is an erect shrub that grows from 0.5 to 3 meters tall and is considered a slow growing plant. [3] The shrub has woody stems with bright red bark. [1] The leaves are waxy, alternately arranged with margins of about 2–5 cm, and are egg-shaped. [2]
Many botanical groups have species that are shrubs, and others that are trees and herbaceous plants instead. Some define a shrub as less than 6 m (20 ft) and a tree as over 6 m. Others use 10 m (33 ft) as the cutoff point for classification. [2] Many trees do not reach this mature height because of hostile, less than ideal growing conditions ...
In addition to its use in ecology, the term "forb" may be used for subdividing popular guides to wildflowers, [6] distinguishing them from other categories such as grasses, sedges, shrubs, and trees. [7] Some examples of forbs are clovers, sunflowers, daylilies, and milkweed.
Dendrology (Ancient Greek: δένδρον, dendron, "tree"; and Ancient Greek: -λογία, -logia, science of or study of) or xylology (Ancient Greek: ξύλον, ksulon, "wood") is the science and study of woody plants (trees, shrubs, and lianas), specifically, their taxonomic classifications. [1]
The Onagraceae are a family of flowering plants known as the willowherb family or evening primrose family. They include about 650 species of herbs , shrubs , and trees [ 4 ] in 17 genera. [ 5 ] The family is widespread, occurring on every continent from boreal to tropical regions.
Fruits. It is an evergreen shrub growing to 8–9 m tall, free-standing, or clinging to the trunks of other trees as an epiphyte.The leaves are palmately compound, with 7–9 leaflets, the leaflets 9–20 cm long and 4–10 cm broad (though often smaller in cultivation) with a wedge-shaped base, entire margin, and an obtuse or acute apex, sometimes emarginate.