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A pondside iris at Crosby Arboretum. The Crosby Arboretum is located in Picayune, Mississippi, United States, and is affiliated with Mississippi State University. [1] It contains 64 acres (259,000 m 2) in its interpretive center, plus over 700 acres (2.8 km 2) in seven additional natural areas, sheltering over 300 species of indigenous trees and shrubs.
Hardwood from North American trees has a variety of commercial uses, including in furniture, carpentry, tools and musical instruments. Some timber is milled for plywood , wood veneer and construction framing , including structural support beams and studs .
Typical trees are American beech, tulip tree, various oaks and hickories, and several other hardwoods. Understory trees include American hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana), flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), and American strawberry-bush (Euonymus americanus). [8] Small stands of Mesic mixed hardwood forest extend into North Florida.
A magnolia tree on the west side of Jackson City Hall in Jackson, Miss., seen Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, is just one of a number trees in metro Jackson lost to the drought conditions last summer.
The nature area has a mix of hardwood and pine forest with large beech and magnolia trees. The park includes the world record Mexican plum and bigleaf snowbell and the state of Mississippi record hophornbeam. Several uncommon trees that can be seen are Southern sugar maple, serviceberry, umbrella tree, pyramid magnolia, chinquapin oak and witch ...
The related east Gulf coastal plain northern mesic hardwood slope forest occurs to the north and has more deciduous trees. [14] On the inland east Gulf coastal plain, mesic slope forest consists of deciduous hardwood forests found in slopes and ravines. They inhabit mesic sites between drier uplands and moister streams.
The Asian longhorned beetle is a wood-boring insect that attacks 12 types of hardwood trees in North America, including maples, elms, buckeyes, birches and willows. Infested trees do not recover ...
“The lumber industry of northern New York: a geographical examination of its history and technology.” ( Syracuse University; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1963. 6405650). Fox, William Freeman. A history of the lumber industry in the state of New York (US Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Forestry, 1902) online