### plant | tracheophyte | tree:

Large tree
* Most large trees can have extensive roots
  - grow on sites
* Most large trees have branches
  - full branches
  - large limbs
  - strong roots
* Most large trees provide food sources
  - oxygen
  - reach height
* Most large trees remain large trees
* Some large trees contain water
  - harbor prey
* Some large trees have low tolerance
  - produce nectar
* appear to be selectively cut, leaving all others to grow to maturity.
* are considered an important component of stands for western tanager
  - hard to cover
  - healthy and maintained and have no dead limbs
  - important habitat components
  - impressive in the spring when young leaves first emerge as a bright yellow-green
  - necessary for shade
  - underplanted with bulbs
* can be blackish and fissured at the base.
  - offer shade
  - tolerate higher levels of infestation
* have a strong, very vigorous growth habit
  - break limbs
  - unmanageable rootballs
* hold their full crowns in the canopy, prohibiting sunlight to plants below.
  - patches of shady cover
* tolerate some feeding injury without harm.

Larger tree
* are easy to feed with fertilizer in a stake form.
* can grow along better drained river valleys where the depth to permafrost is greater.
* have larger leaf surface areas, resulting in larger spruce budworm populations
  - thicker bark to protect the cambium and needles are higher above the heat source
* tolerate light to moderate infestations without apparent serious effects.

### plant | tracheophyte | tree:

Laurel
* Some laurels are classified as weeds.
* Some laurels grow as shrubs
  - small shrubs
* Some laurels have flowers
  - instinct
  - white flowers
  - suppress growth
* are also poor healers and many are pocked with half-closed wounds from pruning cuts
  - bushs
  - evergreen broadleaf shrubs or small trees
  - evergreens
  - for olive trees
  - the most common family of trees in the forest
  - wreaths
* bloom in springs.
* grow quickly and are often used as borders or hedges.
* includes bark
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - leaf nodes
  - nuclei
  - plasma membranes
  - sections
  - stumps
  - tree branches
  - treetops
  - trunks
  - vacuoles
  - xylem
* is symbolic of achievement, courage, and victory
  - the symbol of victory
* make good nesting sites for birds.
* plant in late springs
* strong yet lightweight lumber that's very easy to work, turn, carve and glue.

Laurel tree
* Most laurel trees produce fragrant leaves
* are common in home landscapes.

### plant | tracheophyte | tree | laurel:

Cassia
* add beauty to the summer landscape with their big clusters of yellow or pink flowers.
* are fast growing plants.

Locust tree
* Most locust trees produce flowers
  - many thorny suckers over their lifetime
  - pea flowers
* are used as timber.
* prefer full sun and tolerate reflected heat from structures.

Maidenhair tree
* are also tolerant of various soil pH levels.
* grow into tall trees with dense canopies.
* have distinctive leaves that flutter in the slightest breeze.

Male tree
* Most male trees produce smelly fruit.
* Some male trees produce seeds.
* are better to plant because the female trees produce messy and foul-smelling fruits.
* have flowers, but no berries.
* produce no fruit, and the flowers are shed after pollen is shed
  - pollen cones and sporophylls, with pollen sacs
* tend to have yellower foliage, and appear even yellower when they are laden with pollen.