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Ptelea trifoliata, commonly known as common hoptree, [4] wafer ash, [5] stinking ash, [6] [7] and skunk bush, [7] [8] is a species of flowering plant in the citrus family . It is native to North America, where it is found in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. It is a deciduous shrub or tree, [9] [10] with alternate, trifoliate leaves.
Ptelea is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, Rutaceae.The name, of Greek derivation, is the classical name of the elm tree. Carl Linnaeus used that word for this genus because of the resemblance of its fruit to that of the elm. [2]
Ptelea crenulata, commonly known as the California hoptree, [2] is a species of tree that is endemic to the state of California in the United States. It is found in the western Sierra Nevada and southern Cascade Range foothills, the northern California Coast Ranges , and the San Francisco Bay Area .
Ptelea aptera, the wingless ptelea, [citation needed] is a small flowering shrub native to Baja California Norte, Mexico.It is neighbored by the more northern Ptelea crenulata, the western hoptree.
The Sonoran Desert. The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert and ecoregion which covers large parts of the southwestern United States and of northwestern Mexico. With an area of 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 sq mi), it is the hottest desert in Mexico.
In some cases the seed is in the centre of the wing, as in the elms (genus Ulmus), the hoptree (Ptelea trifoliata), and the bushwillows (genus Combretum). In other cases the seed is on one side, with the wing extending to the other side, making the seed autorotate as it falls, as in the maples (genus Acer) and ash trees (genus Fraxinus). [4]
Kiidk'yaas in 1984. Kiidk'yaas (meaning "ancient tree" in the Haida language [1]), also known as the Golden Spruce, was a Sitka spruce tree (Picea sitchensis 'Aurea') that grew on the banks of the Yakoun River on the Haida Gwaii archipelago in British Columbia, Canada.
On March 15, 2019, Aurea Vazquez Rijos and her sister, Marcia Vazquez Rijos and an ex-boyfriend of hers, José Ferrer Sosa, were all sentenced to life in prison. [24] Áurea was assigned BOP#46255-069 and Marcia was given BOP#42102-069 and are now at FMC Carswell. Jose's status is unknown.