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www.theseasonsreserve.com
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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.
WELCOMETo The Seasons Reserve
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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
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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
WILLOWSalix Babylonica
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Less than twenty speciesNative to SouthWest EuropeGrowing to 1–9m tallMember of the large and mostly acridly poisonous “Order Euphorbiaceae”
BOXBuxus Sempervirens
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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
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ELMUlmaceae
30 to 40 speciesNative to Eastern North AmericaCan reach 38mBeen known to grow for more than 300 years
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BeechFagaceae
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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
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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
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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
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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
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