It is a shade tree that grows well in areas without much rain.
Food is best when it comes out of the ground, is picked ripe from a tree or caught, cooked and eaten while it is still fresh.
The labour of love of eccentric English aristocrat Sir Stewart Gore-Brown, it is approached down a long, tree-lined drive, flanked by farm buildings, settlements and workers houses, giving it the air of an old feudal domain.
Fortuny's family tree is reproduced on a wall at the entrance of the exhibit, and it is the fruit of this tree that so elegantly fills two floors at the institute.
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At 5.5km long it is easily seen on foot, with a tree-lined walkway along the water.
In nature, a moth that is camouflaged to look like a certain kind of tree knows that it must land on that tree in order to evade detection by predators.
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Sandalwood essence, for example, is a terpene, and the demand for its potent smell means the tree it comes from is becoming rare.
It is said that the Romans often cut down a fir tree to keep in their houses during the sparse winter months as a form of appeasement to the goddess Ceres (originally Demeter, Greek goddess of the hearth).
And being made from the straightest of the straight-grained hinoki tree (Japanese cypress), it is a formidably expensive piece of wood.
Simpson's defense attempted to suggest Wednesday hair analysis is so vague it is like picking up a leaf and attempting to tell which tree it fell from.
It is known to have, or believed to have, healing powers as a tree.
If the new tree is a better fit for the leaves, it is taken as the starting point for the next spin.
It is a baffling combination of towers, hemicycles, courtyards, conference rooms and tree-filled atriums, all linked together by glass lifts and dark, leather-lined corridors.
"It gives drivers sufficient time to react if there is, for example, a fallen tree on the line, " she said.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Is a Christmas tree motif indicative of a Christian recipient, even though it has arguably become a standard holiday symbol across religions?
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Ginkgo, made from the nuts and leaves of a tree, is a rich source of antioxidants - substances which it is thought can neutralise free radicals.
"I think it's unlikely that further barking up the tree of LDL is going to show a substantial benefit, " says Allen Taylor, chief of cardiovascular research at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
It is a thought that never intrudes when looking at his luminous variations on the theme of the cherry tree.
It may simply be that each tree, like each person, is an individual, and has a personality that's a product of both nature and nurture.
It is based on the Bible story of Zacchaeus, the cheating chief tax collector who climbed a sycamore tree to get a better view of Jesus.
The main tree you see in this image is a large oak, and I used it to frame the shafts of light.
It is best to follow a Greenway -- quiet routes through Royal Parks and back streets or meandering along tree-lined canal paths.
"It's very significant to find a new clone variety because the tree's gene pool is very restricted and that is a disadvantage if they are threatened by disease as these are, " she said.
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Caijing is a woodpecker, she says, forever hammering at a tree, trying not to knock it down but to make it grow straighter.
It is a structural British problem, too: only on our side of the English Channel can you be a tree-hugging centrist and Eurosceptic.
The good news for human firefighters is that at least a few of their traditional tasks still remain beyond the robosnake's capabilities -- well, until it's able to climb a tree and rescue a stranded cat without breaking its neck, that is.
First it was sub zero temperatures, now what is believed to be the world's most northerly grove of a Jurassic tree has weathered one of the wettest Julys.
Thus, my question this morning is akin to the age old dilemma relating to whether or not a tree falling in the woods actually makes any sound if no one is there to hear it.
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