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11 unusual facts about tree


California State Capitol Museum

The Apollo 14 Moon Tree, planted as a sapling in 1976 that was grown from a seed (among hundreds) carried by command module pilot Stuart Roosa during the 1971 mission.

House-Tree-Person test

Generally this test is administered as part of a series of personality and intelligence tests, like the Rorschach, TAT (or CAT for children), Bender, and Wechsler tests.

Oil-tree

It was probably the oleaster (Elaeagnus angustifolia), which grows abundantly in almost all parts of the Land of Israel, especially about Hebron and Samaria.

"It has a fine hard wood", says Tristram, "and yields an inferior oil, but it has no relationship to the olive, which, however, it resembles in general appearance".

The Ash-tree

It is soon discovered that the ancient ash tree outside his bedroom window is the root of the problem.

The Boldness of Style EP

Other guest musicians that appear on this EP are: "Walk On Water": John Dentino (organ) and Tree (saxophone), "If I": Connie Berunen (percussion) Sondra Christianson (piano) and Sabrina Judge (vocals)

The Fir-Tree

This was the first film produced by Kevin Sullivan who would go on to write, direct and produce the Anne of Green Gables movies.

The tale was adapted to a 28-minute video format in 1979 by Huntingwood Films produced by Kevin Sullivan, directed by Martin Hunter and filmed at Black Creek Pioneer Village, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The tale was first published 21 December 1844 with "The Snow Queen" in Copenhagen, Denmark by C.A. Reitzel.

The Gourd and the Palm-tree

However, not only is the poem very obviously derived from Meissner's German fable, but its original (and unacknowledged) Scottish author, Charles Mackay, nowhere credits it with an Eastern origin in the collection in which it first appeared.

The first recorder of the fable, Boniohannes de Messana, was from the Sicilian Crusader port now called Messina, so there is the possibility that it might originally have come from the Eastern Mediterranean.


1888 in archaeology

December: Discovery of three villages by Richard Wetherill and his brother-in-law Charlie Mason while tracking stray cattle: Cliff Palace, Spruce Tree House, and Square Tower House; now part of Mesa Verde National Park.

A. flava

Aesculus flava, the yellow buckeye, common buckeye or sweet buckeye, a tree species native to the Ohio Valley and Appalachian Mountains of the Eastern United States

Afrocarpus gracilior

It is an important timber tree in eastern Africa, used for building construction, panelling, flooring and furniture.

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.

Bay View Historical Society

They have restored the area surrounding the Pryor Avenue Iron Well and designated historical landmarks at the following locations: Beulah Brinton House, Bay View United Methodist Church, Bay View Rolling Mill, Puddler's Hall, St. Augustine School, St. Lucas Lutheran Church, Estes Home, Kneisler's White House Tavern, Club Garibaldi, Trowbridge Street School, Dover Street School, European Copper Beech Tree, Immaculate Conception Church, and the Keller Winery.

Borderline tree

It happens when a tree cannot be easily determined as in or out when using a prism or angle gauge.

Château Trpísty

The large formal garden was landscaped in the English style in the 19th century and contains today a rich collection of rare trees, among them a 19th century female Ginkgo tree.

Christmas Tree EXEC

Written by a student at the Clausthal University of Technology in the REXX scripting language, it drew a crude Christmas tree as text graphics, then sent itself to each entry in the target's email contacts file.

Derrubone

It was originally isolated from the Indian tree Derris robusta.

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.

Donkey walk

The procession was led by a wagon carrying "a beautiful tree whose branches are hung with apples and various other treats" and six boys singing Hosanna.

Duleek

The village’s four crosses and the lime tree on the village green are reminders of Duleek’s links to the struggle between William and James and to wider European unrest at the time of Louis XIV of France.

Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests

In the deciduous forests meanwhile the predominant tree species are Himalayan Maple (Acer campbellii), Juglans regia, Alnus nepalensis, Betula alnoides, Betula utilis, and Echinocarpus dasycarpus.

Endiandra introrsa

Endiandric acid C, isolated from the Endiandra introrsa tree, is reported to have better antibiotic activity than ampicillin.

Epipompilus insularis

insularis females hunt, usually in sunshine for retreat-making spiders in the concealed places where female spiders retreat to, such as rolled dead leaves; hollow plant stems; flax bushes; dead rolled fronds of tree-ferns; the abandoned cocoons of the bag-moth Liothula omnivora; deserted galleries of wood-boring beetles; and even the empty hatched galls of the moth Morova subfasciata in Muehlenbeckia australis and beneath loose bark on tree trunks.

F. aurea

Ficus aurea, the Florida strangler fig, golden fig or higuerón, a tree species native to Florida, the northern and western Caribbean, southern Mexico and Central America south to Panama

Ficus racemosa

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

Frappuccino

In Peru, as of 2011, there is the Algarrobina Frappuccino, made with Algarrobina, a syrup derived from the Black carob tree.

Ilex cookii

This tree is only known from a single specimen and a few seedlings in the cloud forests on Cerro de Punta and Monte Jayuya, both at Toro Negro State Forest in Puerto Rico.

Indian plum

Flacourtia jangomas, a rainforest tree in the willow family that is widely planted in Asia and Southeast Asia

Jacksonville Landing

The Landing hosts more than 300 events each year including Florida/Georgia Weekend Celebrations, the annual Christmas Tree Lighting, New Year’s Eve and Gator Bowl Celebrations, St. Patrick’s Day, the Jacksonville Jazz Festival and July 4th fireworks.

Khair

:For the desert tree of South Asia, see Capparis decidua.

Kicking Bird

However, with tensions still soaring after the arrest of Satanta, Big Tree, and Satank, Kicking Bird was able to achieve little success.

Korean cherry

Prunus japonica is widely cultivated as an ornamental tree or shrub

Korina

Terminalia superba, also known as Korina in the US, a large tree native to tropical western Africa.

Lands of Threepwood

Cotton cloth or linen was originally bleached by repeatedly steeping it in an alkaline solution or lye derived from ash tree or fern ashes, called 'bucking'.

Lang Lang

Cananga odorata, a tree valued for its perfume whose common names include Ylang-ylang and ilang-ilang

Lucknam Park

They used Lucknam Park's beech and lime tree lined driveway to park their Spitfires and Hurricanes – the huge trees providing camouflage.

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.

Milhan

Acacia citrinoviridis, the black mulga, river jam, milhan or wantan, a tree species endemic to Western Australia

Montague, Massachusetts

Montague has claimed to be the location of a maple tree that inspired poet Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918) to write the popular 1913 poem "Trees", however family accounts and documents establish the poem was written in Mahwah, New Jersey.

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.

Panch pallava

These five leaves used are generally from trees esteemed in Hindu belief, such as the kalamb, rui, agada, and umbar.

Project Learning Tree

Project Learning Tree (PLT) was created in 1976, after passage of the first National Environmental Education Act in 1970 and celebration of the first Earth Day in 1970, raised the profile of environmental education in the United States.

Ribes oxyacanthoides

This plant is an alternate host for the white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola), the vector of a pine tree disease.

Scourie

The "palms" in the grounds are actually Cordyline australis, a native New Zealand tree which is found in lowland and montane areas.

Simple API for XML

A DOM parser, in contrast, typically builds a tree representation of the entire document in memory to begin with, thus using memory that increases with the entire document length.

Sous

The natural vegetation in the Sous is savanna dominated by the Argan (Argania spinosa), a local endemic tree found nowhere else; part of the area is now a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve to protect this unique habitat.

Stanley, Hong Kong

The original Cantonese name of the village was believed to be based on a big tall cotton tree (Bombax malabaricum, Bombax ceiba 木棉樹) often covered with bright red blossoms at the time, hence red pillar (赤柱) in Hakka language.

Steiner point

The Fermat point of a triangle, the solution to the Steiner tree problem for the three vertices of the triangle

Strelitzia nicolai

This species is one of three tree-like Strelitzia species, the other two being S. caudata and S. alba.

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 Grange, Edinburgh

In 1835 Earl Grey (of Reform Bill fame) stayed with Sir Thomas Dick Lauder at The Grange House, and commemorated his visit by planting an oak-tree in a conspicuous spot in The Avenue, upon the bank of the north side, not very far from the ivy-clad arch.

The Halloween Tree

The Halloween Tree is illustrated by Joe Mugnaini, one of Bradbury's many collaborators over the years.

The Twelve Sisters

In Tambon Mon Nang, Phanat Nikhom District, Chonburi Province, there is a shrine to the Twelve Sisters with the rock they used as pillow when they wandered in the wilderness and a Carissa carandas tree.

Thyia

The name was applied to a type of fragrant tree called a Thuja.

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.

Villa de Merlo

"El Algarrobo Abuelo" ("the Grandfather Carob Tree") is a specimen more than a thousand years old and measuring more than 6 meters.

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

Willow Palisade

According to the Japanese traveler Inaba Iwakichi, who went through Weiyuanbao gate (in the eastern section of the system, near its junction with the other two sections near Kaiyuan) in 1907, and then again several years later through a gate in the Outer Palisade near Shibeiling (south of Changchun), there was nothing for him to see but a few old tree stumps.