### plant | tracheophyte | tree | birch tree:

Yellow birch
* grow in the northern half of Wisconsin on rich, moist soils in upland areas.
* has a pale white sapwood and a darker reddish brown heartwood
  - very fine shreddy bark that peels into small strips
  - abundant seed bearing catkins
  - white sapwood and light reddish-brown heartwood
* is an attractive shade tree with golden-satin bark
  - browsed by moose, white-tailed deer, and snowshoe hares
  - the hardest birch and is quite hard

### plant | tracheophyte | tree:

Black mangrove
* Most black mangroves have seeds
  - produce seeds
* Some black mangroves grow in intertidal zones
  - have roots
* adapts to high salinity conditions prevalent in some areas of the estuary.
* are further inland but are filled with sea water at high tide
  - trees
* blossom in spring and early summer, producing white flowers.
* can occur farther north in Florida than the other two species.
* grow closer to the shore where they are reached only by high tides
  - farther inland
* has hundreds of roots the size of pencils that grow up from the soil.
* occur together with cordgrass, particularly along the eastern shore.
* take over the intertidal zone and predominate area covered by high tides.
* utilize a different strategy for aeration of root tissues.
+ Aerial root: Plant anatomy
  * Black mangroves have such roots, for example.

Bonsai tree
* are trained to grow as dwarfs but the seeds still produce regualr trees
  - into a shape that is pleasing to look at
* can come from temperate or tropical regions.
  * are trained to grow into a shape that is pleasing to look at. The best bonsai trees appear to be old, and to have a shape that seems like a real tree except much smaller.

Broadleaf tree
* are the most numerous and varied
  - trees with leaves that are shed annually
* bear many different kinds of fruit.
* have flowers that develop fruit
  - large, flat leaves as opposed to the thin needles of the conifers
  - thin, flat leaves that are usually lost in the fall
* tend to be nutrient-demanding and their leaves bind the major nutrient bases.

Buckeye
* All buckeyes have large palmately compound leaves.
* are distant relatives to chestnuts
  - often small trees, with a spread nearly equal to their height
  - similar to chestnuts and grow on trees
  - trees native to temperate areas in North America, Europe and eastern Asia
* favor cool canyons, stream corridors, and moist north facing slopes.
* fly like cannon fire from their arms.
* grow natively in the state of Ohio, and look like chestnuts.

Canopy tree
* Most canopy trees grow to feet.
* Most canopy trees have leaves
  - oval leaves
  - smooth, oval leaves that come to a point
  - provide habitats

Casuarina
* Some casuarinas can become pests.
* are actually typical angiosperms with simplified and reduced unisexual flowers
  - plants
  - wind-pollinated
* have fruits which attract seed-eating parrots.

Catalpa
* has similar foliage but has continuous pith.
* worm with cocoons of wasp parasite.

Chestnut tree
* Most chestnut trees adapt to environments.
* are deciduous plants
  - insect-pollinated
* aren t very popular because they take so long to mature.
* produce a marketable crop by the fourth or fifth leaf.
* require relatively little pruning.

Coco
* Some cocos contain nutrients.
* are bands
  - countries
* diaper wearing banana eater.
* family cat name.
* includes bark
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - kernels
  - leaf nodes
  - nuclei
  - plasma membranes
  - sections
  - stumps
  - tree branches
  - treetops
  - trunks
  - vacuoles
  - xylem
* light brown rabbit with dark speckles.
* palm tree

Cocoa bean
* are a delicate crop, requiring high temperatures and plenty of rainfall
  - like coffee beans in that crops vary from year to year and region to region
* come from cocoa trees.
* grow in pods that sprout off of the trunk and branches of cocoa trees.