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2 unusual facts about The Tree


Phyllis Quek

She subsequently followed this up with a supporting role as a policewoman in another Raintree Pictures film, The Tree (孩子树).

She then released her debut album, Phyllis, under Hype Records which contained primarily dance tunes and singles from the soundtrack of The Tree and Beyond The Axis Of Truth (法医X档案).


Aden Young

Young appeared as Charlotte Gainsbourg's husband on French/Australian/Italian co-production from director Julie Bertucelli, The Tree (2010) – the story of 8-year-old Simone who believes her dead father's spirit has taken up residence in a Moreton Bay fig tree on the family property.


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Anabasine

Anabasine is a pyridine and piperidine alkaloid found in the Tree Tobacco (Nicotiana glauca) plant, a close relative of the common tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum).

Bale Oak

The Lord of the Manor Sir Willoughby Jones ordered the tree removed and, with much local mourning, the remains taken carted to Cranmer Hall at Fakenham.

Birmingham Blitz

On 8 October 2005 a memorial sculpture, named 'The Tree of Life' sculpted by Lorenzo Quinn, dedicated to the victims of the Blitz was unveiled adjacent to St Martin’s Church.

Blue spruce

Canker caused by Cytospora attacks one of the lower branches first and progressively makes its way higher up the tree.

Butterhill

This Is My Father; the tree featured on the cover of the film, and used in the final scene, is the oak tree perched atop of Butterhill Mound.

Caesalpinia echinata

The tree is also known by other names, as ibirapitanga, Tupi for "red wood"; or pau de pernambuco, named after the Brazilian state of Pernambuco.

California Capitol Christmas Tree

In December 1999, during his first Christmas season in office, Governor Gray Davis changed the name of the tree to the California Capitol Holiday Tree, for specifically unknown reasons.

Carnival of Conache

Palo Cilulo, the people dance around a tree decorated with presents and other carnival things, this tree is also called "unsha", "Yunza", "Corta monte", or "Umisha", and while the people dance around someone turns to cut the tree little by little with an Axe for a little while then more people makes the same until it falls down.

Devil's Tree

In 2013 Dread Central announced that director Joshua Petrino would begin work on a feature film based upon the tree.

Dichotomic search

Some dichotomic searches only have results at the leaves of the tree, such as the Huffman tree used in Huffman compression, or the implicit classification tree used in Twenty Questions.

Diospyros clementium

The tree is named for American husband-and-wife plant collectors Joseph Clemens and Mary Strong Clemens.

Dried fruit

Drying or dehydration also happened to be the earliest form of food preservation: grapes, dates and figs that fell from the tree or vine would dry in the hot sun.

Eugenia woodburyana

The tree grows in the Sierra Bermeja and the Guánica State Forest of Puerto Rico, and there is reportedly one individual in the Cabo Rojo National Wildlife Refuge.

Ficus racemosa

Both the tree and the flower are referred to as the udumbara (Sanskrit, Pali; Devanagari: उडुम्बर) in Buddhism.

Flindersia brayleyana

The tree is generally protected since the main areas in which this tree occurs have received World Heritage listing.

Fruit tree propagation

Bind with raffia or polythene tape or wind around with a 5mm wide strip of elastic band (this is particularly successful because it keeps pressure on the cambium layers to be joined and eventually falls away without cutting into the bark as the tree grows) and seal with grafting wax.

Gamboge

The tree most commonly used is the gamboge tree (genus Garcinia), including G. hanburyi (Cambodia and Thailand), G. morella (India and Sri Lanka), and G. elliptica and G. heterandra (Myanmar).

Guilty Chinese Scholartree

The original tree was uprooted during the Cultural Revolution and the tree that is currently standing at the site is a replacement.

Horizontal gene transfer in evolution

In his article Uprooting the Tree of Life, W. Ford Doolittle discusses the Last Universal Common Ancestor – the root of the Tree of Life – and the problems with that concept posed by HGT.

International Festival of Animated Objects

Past programming has included Canadian marionette superstar Ronnie Burkett, BC spectacle artists Three on the Tree, Tsimphisan carver Victor Reece, Cirque du Soleil artist Mooky Cornish, Phillip Huber (of "Being John Malkovich" marionette fame), Frank Meschkuleit ("Bride of Chucky", "The Left Hand of Frank"), Calgary's The Old Trout Puppet Workshop, Red Smarteez, and Czech group Buchty a Loutky, amongst others.

Isavella Dara

During the 2004 Summer Olympics, the model visited the Water Plaza fun park, an Olympic venue, which housed the sculpture "The Olive: The Tree of Athens", on which she and many other celebrities signed their names.

King Philip's War

The legend of Connecticut's Charter Oak stems from the belief that a cavity within the tree was used in late 1687 as a hiding place for the colony's charter as Andros tried unsuccessfully to revoke its charter and take over the militia.

Lactarius rupestris

Although the fungus is suspected to be mycorrhizal (like all Lactarius), there was a wide diversity of plant species growing in the open, dry forest where the mushroom was found (including members of the tree families Euphorbiaceae, Fabaceae, Myrtaceae, Nyctaginaceae, and Polygonaceae—all known to form mycorrhizal associations), so the authors did not speculate on any specific interactions.

M. dentatus

Melicytus dentatus, the tree violet, a shrub species native to south-east Australia

M. Karagatsis

The word "Karagatsis" comes from the tree "Karagatsi" under the shadow of which he used to write as a young writer.

Maackia amurensis

The species epithet and common names are from the Amur River region, where the tree originated; it occurs in northeastern China, Korea, and Russia.

Martti Rautanen

In turn Schinz was impressed by Rautanen and named the tree Ricinodendron rautanenii after him, while the German botanist and authority on Lythraceae, Bernhard Koehne, commemorated him in Nesaea rautanenii.

Metatron's Cube

The derivation of Metatron's cube from the tree of life, which the Talmud clearly states was excluded from human experience during the exile from Eden, has led some scholars (including Johann Andreas Eisenmenger) to portray Metatron as the means by which humanity was given knowledge of YHVH; presumably implying that study of Metatron's cube would be necessary to understanding the tree of life.

Milicia regia

Attempts to grow the tree in plantations have been unsuccessful because the buds are attacked by the psyllid fly Phytolyma lata.

Neukom Vivarium

According to the Seattle Art Museum, which operates the park, the tree "inhabits an art system" consisting of bacteria, fungi, insects, lichen and plants.

Origin: Spirits of the Past

Three hundred years later, Japan is a dystopia covered by the Forest, a huge expanse of sapient trees, and ruled by the tree-like Zruids, which inhabit the planet and control the water supply of both trees and humans.

Palisády Street

The tree represented a symbol to so called Ľudovít Štúr - movements - the linden is considered to be a symbol of Slavs.

Pinyon pine

The Pinyon Jay (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus) takes its name from the tree, and pinyon nuts form an important part of its diet.

Platypleura sylvia

This cicada is found in closed bushveld that includes the tree Vitex obovata, a member of the Verbenaceae, a tree also endemic to South Africa and Swaziland, and with which it has a close and exclusive relationship.

Rollinia

A common pest of Rollinia are Arsenura armida, who like to gather in large masses during the day on the trunk of the tree.

Rumskulla oak

The hollow trunk of the tree was the location for sex scenes in I Am Curious (Yellow), a 1967 film by Vilgot Sjöman.

Searches for Noah's Ark

In 1876, James Bryce, historian, statesman, diplomat, explorer, and Professor of Civil Law at Oxford, climbed above the tree line and found a slab of hand-hewn timber, four feet long and five inches thick, which he identified as being from the Ark.

Senegalia caffra

In common with other Acacias and Senegalias, the bark and leaves are rich in tannins, while parts of the tree are used by the Bantu in traditional herbal medicine for curing a large range of complaints.

South Baddesley

Within a few weeks the fame of the tree was such that people came from far and wide to listen to the tree, including Frederick, Prince of Wales and Princess Augusta.

Spearfinger

Once, Spearfinger undertook a "great rock bridge through the air from Nûñyû'-tlu`gûñ'yï, the 'Tree rock', on Hiwassee, over to Sanigilâ'gï," which is Whiteside Mountain located on the Blue Ridge.

The Crows of Pearblossom

Due to the Rattlesnake living at the bottom of the tree, Mrs. Crow's eggs are never able to hatch.

The National Tree

Finally the President of the United States calls the Park ranger on his cell phone and tells him to plant the tree.

Tree Island, South China Sea

For the "Tree Island" in Tuen Mun District, New Territories, Hong Kong, see Pak Chau.

Tree stand

The part that wraps around the tree is fastened to the stand with a bolt or pin for easy adjustment for different tree sizes.

Ulmus 'Lobel'

The tree is named for Matthias de L'obel, the Flemish botanist also commemorated by the genus Lobelia.

Ulmus 'Nana'

The low height of the tree should ensure that it avoids colonization by the Scolytus bark beetles and thus remain free of Dutch elm disease.

Ulmus mexicana

In Costa Rica the Mexican Elm is known as Tirrá; the neighbourhood (district) of Tirrases in Curridabat, San José, takes its name from the tree.

Whitebeam

The surface of the leaf is an unremarkable mid-green, but the underside is almost white (hence the name) transforming the appearance of the tree in strong winds, as noted by the poet Meredith: "flashing as in gusts the sudden-lighted whitebeam".

William Kreutzer, Jr.

Kreutzer was hiding in the tree line, adjacent to a housing area, alongside Towle Stadium APF field, and eventually wounded 18 soldiers with a .223 caliber/5.56 Ball NATO AR-15/ M-16 A1, a .22

Wye Oak

Dr. Frank Gouin, Professor Emeritus of Horticulture at the University of Maryland, College Park, impressed both by the age and size of the tree, as well as its unusual resistance to oak wilt fungus and the gypsy moth, led a successful effort to clone the Wye Oak.