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Cladrastis kentukea, the Kentucky yellowwood or American yellowwood (syn. C. lutea, C. tinctoria), is a species of Cladrastis native to the Southeastern United States, with a restricted range from western North Carolina west to eastern Oklahoma, and from southern Missouri and Indiana south to central Alabama. The tree is sometimes also called ...
Common names include common yellowwood, bastard yellowwood, outeniqua yellowwood, [2] African pine tree, weeping yew, [3] Afrikaans: outeniekwageelhout, kalander, Sotho: mogôbagôba, Xhosa: umkhoba and Zulu: umsonti. [4] It is widespread, in some areas abundant, and not considered threatened, [1] but it is a protected tree in South Africa. [4]
The yellowwood groves make up only 200 acres (80 ha) of the park, although one tree has been planted by the forest office. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The forest preserve was established during the Great Depression , when work crews from the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration built many of the structures still in use today.
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Cassine crocea, yellowwood, saffron wood; Cladrastis spp., a genus of trees in the family Fabaceae; Cladrastis kentukea spp., a tree indigenous to the south eastern United States, American, Kentucky yellowwood; Cladrastis delavayi (Syn.: Cladrastis sinensis), Chinese yellowwood; Coprosma linariifolia, a shrub or small tree of New Zealand
The tree produces spiky green fruits about the size of a golf ball, which turn brown and drop off the tree over an extended period beginning in fall and continuing over the winter.
3. Catalpa. This handsome tree has pretty heart-shaped leaves and fragrant white flowers, but it drops dark brown seedpods in large numbers, which makes it a messy tree for lawns and home gardens ...
The Sonochromatic Music Scale is a microtonal and logarithmic scale with 360 notes in an octave. Each note corresponds to a specific degree of the color wheel. [6] Harbisson's Pure Sonochromatic Scale is a non-logarithmic scale based on the transposition of light frequencies to sound frequencies. The scale includes infrareds and ultraviolets ...