| The tree's handsome pyramidal shape has a somewhat unusual branch structure. |
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| A tree's roots had grown into the dam, and it was riddled with holes and in a very precarious condition. |
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| I realized she was assessing my back muscles, judging their strength, reading them the way a botanist reads the rings of a tree's trunk. |
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| Throughout the growing season, hollow vessels in a tree's sapwood, or xylem, conduct water and nutrients up from the roots to the leaves. |
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| Attached to the tree's skewed limbs are artificial-looking yellow blossoms, while four baby-blue petals lie on the surrounding brown dirt. |
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| This tree's balsam scent is most potent when you brush against its extra-long, deep green needles. |
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| The tree's bark has started to peel, a sure sign that it is dying, Griffiths adds. |
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| The resins flow rate and total production influence the pine tree's ability to physically repel a bark beetle attack. |
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| Heavy equipment or materials such as pallets of payers can squash a tree's shallow surface roots. |
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| Again and again, chronologers applied the same techniques to the materials they assembled along the tree's trunk and branches. |
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| Twenty or thirty large, gently fluted pods grow directly from the tree's trunk and branches, dangling like holiday ornaments. |
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| Plants show similar repetitive structures in, for example, the veins on a leaf or a tree's branching limbs. |
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| The shrike had pinned smaller birds on the tree's black thorns and the sun had stripped them of their feathers. |
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| The fungus plugs up the tree's vascular system, the collection of tiny vessels that transports water and nutrients to the plant cells. |
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| The tree's branches structurally support the third-floor oriel extending halfway up the fourth floor or gable above it. |
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| The surveys concluded that the tree's trunk was essentially hollow and there were large areas of deadwood within its crown. |
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| The tree's low, sweeping branches moderate ground-level temperatures in winter, helping keep streams ice-free. |
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| I discovered three of them eating the immature fruits in the tree's spreading crown. |
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| If seeds are planted where the trees will be expected to grow later, consider the tree's sun and shade requirements. |
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| Nowadays, the Queen and her family usually put the finishing touches to the tree's decorations. |
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| Every buyer gets a certificate and plaques in the wood will show each tree's location. |
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| At this ripe old age, the tree's enormous limbs are supported by steel columns and cables. |
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| Rev Snuggs claimed just three of the yew tree's poisonous berries would be enough to kill a child. |
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| The tree's main stem or stems is called a leader, a continuation of the trunk. |
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| She pulled several long willow tendrils from the tree's branches. |
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| He secures the end of each rope to the tree's bottom with a U-shaped staple, then wraps the tree from the bottom up, turning the cardboard slowly as he goes. |
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| The tree's bright green foliage contrasted with the swing, whose wood had long perished, cut off from its source of life, and was now numb to the world. |
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| Replacement values typically are calculated using an arboricultural industry formula based on a particular tree's intrinsic value for size, species, and health. |
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| We believe that it may be suffering from an aphid attack as it is covered in cotton wool-like clusters which have formed on the underside of the tree's branches. |
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| Mildew destroys new shoots on apples and gradually saps the tree's vigor. |
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| The huge Oakwood tree's leaves rustle as a strong gust of wind blew. |
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| A little squirrel lost its tail, had its fur burnt off and went blind, but gnawed at the tree's branches until the heavenly globe could rise again. |
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| Lady Peacemaker was surprised to find herself looking into the eyes of a human face composed entirely from the bumps and gnarls of the tree's trunk. |
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| The fruit of the coconut tree includes the buoyant husk surrounding the coconut, which helps the seeds float downstream and spread the tree's offspring far and wide. |
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| But it's the ancient image of the tree's needles and branches that make an impression on paleobotanists. |
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| Furthermore, the tree's triumph over death is celebrated by adorning the cross with gold and jewels. |
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| Saplings, certified as grown from the tree's acorns are actually available from the English Heritage shop at Boscobel House. |
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| In commemoration of the tree's significance in British history, a number of places and things have been named after the Royal Oak. |
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| The loblolly pine pollen that coated your home, car, and pets this spring is the tree's attempt to spread its genes far and wide. |
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| A flake of biotite near the tree's roots provided nourishment and was the only source of potassium in the soil, Bonneville says. |
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| According to McGovern, early Mesoamericans likely consumed the cacao tree's fruit because the seeds were bitter. |
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| The tree's leaflessness made it look scrawny, though in summer it seemed full and bushy. |
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| This tree's roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground. |
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| According to a common Heathen belief based on references in Old Norse sources, three sisters known as the Norns sit at the end of the world tree's root. |
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| For instance, a tree can convert the amino acid phenylalanine into cinnamic acid, a precursor to compounds thought to be important to the tree's defense system. |
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