Redwood

Nicholas J. Vacanti institute I.D. 12/10/2012 Term Project Plant fellowship: sequoia FOREST * The plant community I have selected, as a guide for creating my garden, is the sequoia Forest. REDWOOD FOREST SPECIES * Redwood (sequoia sempervirens) * Sequoia sempervirens is the sole living species of the genus Sequoia in the cypress family Cupressaceae. Common names include seashore redwood, California redwood, and ogre redwood. It is an evergreen, broad-lived, monoecious tree living 12001800 years or more. This species includes the tallest trees on Earth, reaching up to 379 feet in tip (without the roots) and up to 26 feet in diam at pap height. Before commercialised logging and clearing began by the 1850s, this huge tree occurred by nature in an estimated 2,100,000 acres along much of coastal northerly California and the southwestern recess of coastal Oregon. An estimated 95% or more of the original old-growth redwood forest has been cut dow n, repayable to its excellent properties for use as lumber in construction. * pacific Dogwood (genus Cornus nuttallii) * The Pacific dogwood, Cornus nuttallii (syn.

Benthamidia nuttallii), is a species of dogwood immanent to western North the States from the lowlands of southern British capital of South Carolina to the mountains of southern California, with an interior population in central Idaho. The leaves argon opposite, simple, oval, 8-12 cm long and 5-8 cm broad. The flowers are individually lesser and inconspicuous, 2-3 mm across, produced in a dense, rounded, greenish- sportsmanlike flo werhead 2 cm diameter; the 4-8 large white p! etals are actually bracts, each bract 4-7 cm long and broad. The ingathering is a compound pink-red berry closely 3 cm diameter, containing 50-100 small seeds; it is edible, though not in truth palatable. most Plateau Indian tribes used the bark as a laxative and to induce vomiting. * The lovely, butterflylike blooms of dogwoods herald the beginning of spring, and the rise continues into wintertime with the...If you want to get a full essay, pronounce it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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