Sentences with phrase «dense rhododendron»

The forest floor becomes a dark, barren place devoid of life apart from the dense rhododendron stems barring the way in all directions,» she says.

Working in the Atlantic oak woodlands of Argyll, Kintyre and Lochaber on Scotland's west coast, researchers from the James Hutton Institute, the University of Aberdeen and Scottish Natural Heritage studied plots that had never been invaded, others covered in dense rhododendron thickets, plus a time - series of sites cleared of rhododendron at different periods between 1984 and 2014.

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The mountains» lower slopes were dense with oaks, maple and magnolia trees, wild lilacs and hydrangeas, and dozens of different rhododendrons — many of which Wilson collected and are now found in pure or hybridized varieties in Western gardens.

Very dense generally, plus ferns, rhododendrons, douglas and noble firs well over 100 ′, etc..