Sentences with phrase «tall conifers»

Vertical plants (think tall conifers, huge Cynara, Verbascum, etc) are used to create an apex, bushier ones for the middle layer and low, spreading ones are placed at the bottom.

While it's common for tall conifers to have transfusion tissue in upper crown leaves, the cross-sections of upper crown giant sequoia leaves measured in this study have three times more transfusion tissue than the leaves of the giant sequoia's super-tall relative, Sequoia sempervirens, the coast redwood.

So, when Saint Luke's Health System found that the 10 - story - tall conifer stood in the way of its planned hospital expansion, officials called tree - moving firm Environmental Design.

To address these questions, they published «Phenotypic plasticity of leaves enhances water - stress tolerance and promotes hydraulic conductivity in a tall conifer,» in a recent issue of the American Journal of Botany.

The Sequoiadendron canopy, from the American Journal of Botany article «Phenotypic plasticity of leaves enhances water - stress tolerance and promotes hydraulic conductivity in a tall conifer» by Alana R. O. Chin and Stephen C. Sillett.

Not exact matches

This makes it difficult to establish whether conifers were arming themselves against taller dinosaurs or against early mammals and birds that were also beginning to appear in the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods.

Conifers are the world's tallest, widest, and oldest trees.

Such genome duplications are believed to drive evolution, which the team reports, helps explain the wide genetic diversity of conifers, which together make up the world's oldest, thickets and tallest trees.

They tend to use tall, sturdy conifers that protrude above the forest canopy, providing easy flight access and good visibility.