Beneath the Bough

Rebuild our home, one tree at a time

Tag: clean air

  • Samanea Saman

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    Hannah Ko
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    Common name(s): Monkeypod Tree, Rain Tree Phonetic Spelling:  Suh-MAY-nee-uh suh-MAHN Description: Stands at around 30 meters tall but can reach up to 60 meters tall in native regions. Is characterized by its umbrella-shaped crown and its leaflets that fold up in the early evening and during cloudy weather during the day. Has a lifespan of…

  • Manchurian Walnut Tree

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    Juglans mandshurica, also known as monkey nuts, or tigernut, is a species of deciduous tree in the walnut family Juglandacea, native to the Eastern Asiatic Region (China, Russian Far East, North Korea and South Korea). It grows to about 25 m. This species was first described by the Russian botanist Carl Johann Maximowicz, in Bulletin de la Classe Physico-Mathématique de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg,…