Sugar pine is the largest of all the pine trees growing to 65 meters tall and up to 180cm in diameter, straight, with long almost horizontal branches. The bark is 5-8cm thick, grey-brown with deep furrows. Leaves and shoots have a sweet grapefruit-like aroma. Sugar pine is native to the mountain ranges of Oregon and [...]

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Billy goat plum , terminalia ferdinandiana or kakadu plum is a slender, hardy, small to medium, deciduous tree found at the northern parts of Australia. It belongs to the family Combretaceae and it has a remarkable fruit content of vitamin C – well documented – one hundred times that of an orange, 3000mg per 100g. [...]

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The Almond tree Prunus dulcis or Amygdalus communis, is a small deciduous tree native to southwestern Asia, belonging to the family Rosaceae. It grows 4-9 m tall, and it is one of the earliest domesticated (fruit) nut-trees. Like the olive tree, the almond tree provided a crop for both food and oil with not to [...]

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The Walnut tree, genus junglans belongs to the order of shrubs and trees known as Juglandeae, representing five genera and twenty one species, spread across the northern temperate climate of the Old World to the southeast Europe and east to Japan. Its original home is believed to be the north of Iran (Persia). // < [...]

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