Longleaf pine takes 100 to 150 years to become full size and may live to be 500 years old. When young, they grow a long taproot, which usually is 2–3 m (6.6–9.8 ft) long; by maturity they have a wide spreading lateral root system with several deep ‘sinker’ roots.–Wikipedia
Category: flora
Prunus × yedoensis
(March 26, 2016, Mr. Beaver’s call for civility was ignored. At least one tree was broken by climbers and stripped of flowers for personal adornment.)
In 1965 Democrat Lady Bird Johnson accepted a bunch more Yoshino trees from the Japanese Government. They were planted on the grounds of the Washington Monument.
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riparian buffer



Aralia spinosa

in the Garden

anisota senatoria



Differences between instars can often be seen in altered body proportions, colors, patterns, or changes in the number of body segments. —Wikipedia
pinus strobus

Cephalanthus occidentalis

lepidoptera
