Post on 29-Mar-2016
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Here at The Seasons Reserve we strive to both preserve the natural excellence an beauty of a variety of trees, while informing and presenting them to you in an interesting fashion.This small booklet will hopefully be found informative as well as a beautiful keepsake for you to remember your time here.
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Around 400 Species knownNative to the Northern Hemisphere
Can reach heights of 11-15m tallOne of the fastest growing shade trees
Around 400 Species knownNative to the Northern Hemisphere
Can reach heights of 11-15m tallOne of the fastest growing shade trees
WILLOWSalix Babylonica
Less than twenty speciesNative to SouthWest EuropeGrowing to 1–9m tallMember of the large and mostly acridly poisonous “Order Euphorbiaceae”
BOXBuxus Sempervirens
Around ten speciesNative to Central EuropeGrow as tall as 30 - 40m
One of the oldest tree family of the worldIt lives for almost six hundred years
SYCAMOREPlatanaceae
ELMUlmaceae
30 to 40 speciesNative to Eastern North AmericaCan reach 38mBeen known to grow for more than 300 years
BeechFagaceae
Around just 10 speciesHomelands of North America and EurasiaReach heights of up to 37mKnown for its many and low branches that create a deep shadeChips of beech wood are used in the brewing of Budweiser beer as a fining agent
MapleAceraceae
Over 125 speciesNative to North America and Eurasia
Reach from 10-45m in heightBranches spread horizontally
and form a rounded headMaple is the most common
tree found in the United States
LarchLarix
PoplarPopulus
More than a dozen different typesNative home along the Bavarian AlpsExceed 20-45 m tallOne of the best wood materialsfor the building of residences
25-35 separate speciesNorth America and Eurasia
15-50m tallBase of 1-2m in diameter
The first tree to have itsfull DNA code sequenced
AshFraxinus
45-65 speciesGrow from the Arctic Circle to Turkey
15-25 feet in heightAsh is a hardwood and is; hard, dense,
tough, very strong yet elasticThe fourth commonest tree
species in Britain