“Cocoa Tree is famous worldwide for its beans used in making chocolate. It can grow up to 30 feet in height and its fruit is long, yellow when ripe and called a pod. The pod contains around 20 to 60 seeds that is the main ingredient of chocolate. The seed contains a significant amount of […]
Coastal Maire
“Coastal Maire is native to New Zealand and some surrounding islands. It can grow to 20 feet in height. The berries are eaten by birds and can be found from January to April. Its flowers are white in colour and found from October to January. It is an attractive tree and known for its hard […]
Cloud forest
“A Cloud forest is also called a fog forest. The sun has a hard time breaking through this thick veil of clouds and this causes a slower rate of evaporation thus providing the plants with a bounty of life-giving moisture. Much of the moisture available to plants arrives in the form of fog drip, where […]
Christmas Tree
Christmas Trees absorb methane, a very potent greenhouse gas. Researchers at Lund University and Stockholm University in Sweden discovered that spruces, pines and firs are exceptionally adept at absorbing methane. This study suggests that trees might be rising to the challenge by absorbing methane out of the atmosphere in addition to carbon dioxide. Methane is […]
Chinese Yellow Wood
Chinese Yellow Wood can grow to 50 feet in height. It is a slow-growing deciduous tree that can tolerate dry, cold and heavy soil. Its white flowers appear in late spring and is planted as a common street tree.
Chinese Tulip
“Chinese Tulip tree can grow to around 40 meters or 131 feet in height. It is an attractive deciduous tree with green and orange leaves and tulip-shaped flowers. Its flowers are olive green to yellow in colour and bloom from May to June. They can go unnoticed on large trees as the flowers appear after […]
Chinese Swamp Cypress
“Chinese Swamp Cypress can grow to 30 meters or around 100 feet tall. It can be found growing along river banks, ponds and swamps. It produces ‘cypress knees’ when growing in water that help transport oxygen to its roots. In traditional medicine, a decoction of the shoots is used to treat fever, hepatitis and animal […]
Chinese Box tree
“Chinese Box tree flowers all year round! It is native to Asia and can grow to 7 meters or 22 feet in height. Its fragrant flowers are borne in clusters containing up to eight flowers at the tips of the branches. It can be found often in response to rain but is most common from […]
China Tree
“China Tree is native to eastern parts of Asia. It is a deciduous tree growing to around 50 feet in height. Its flowers are yellow in colour with four petals growing in big panicles of 8 to 16 inches long. The fruit is initially green in colour that ripens to orange and pink in autumn. […]
Over 10,000 cherry trees blossom at Kitakami in Japan!
“Over 10,000 cherry trees blossom at Kitakami in Japan! Kitakami is a city located in Iwate Prefecture and is famous for its cherry blossoms. The trees are planted along pathways parallel to the river creating a tunnel of cherry blossoms. They generally bloom in April and last for around a week or two. During this […]
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