What plant is a tree? An introduction to the botanical classification of trees
Trees are among the plants we see most often in daily life, so what plant exactly is a tree? Let's take a look!
1. What plant is a tree
A tree is the general term for woody plants, mainly composed of roots, trunk, branches, leaves, flowers and fruit. A tree is a perennial plant with a woody trunk and branches. Generally, arbor trees are called trees; the main trunk is single, and the branches are set at a relatively high distance from the ground, allowing a crown to form. There are many kinds of trees.
In common speech, relatively large shrubs are also called “trees”, such as the pomegranate tree (classified as a deciduous shrub or small tree) and the tea plant (classified as a shrub or small tree). The national tree of China: ginkgo. Among plants, trees are distinguished from grasses.
2. What plant is the banyan tree?
The banyan tree (Ficus microcarpa) is a large arbor tree, reaching 15-25 m tall, with a diameter at breast height of up to 50 cm and a broad, spreading crown; old trees often have rust-brown aerial roots. The bark is dark gray. The leaves are thinly leathery, narrowly elliptic, dark green and glossy on the surface, with entire margins. The figs are borne in pairs in the leaf axils or on the leaf axils of branches that have already lost their leaves; when ripe they are yellow or slightly red, oblate, with 3 basal bracts, broadly ovate, persistent; male flowers, female flowers and gall flowers all grow together inside one fig, with a few short bristles among the flowers; there are 3 perianth segments, broadly ovate, the style is nearly lateral, and the stigma is short and club-shaped. The achene is ovate. The flowering period is May-June.
It is mainly distributed in China, Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Japan, Papua New Guinea and Australia, and as far as the Caroline Islands.
3. What plant is the Chinese dove tree?
The “Chinese dove tree”, also known as dove tree (Davidia involucrata), and also called water pear and dove tree, originated in our country. The dove tree is about ten to twenty meters tall, with a tall and upright form; it is a very beautiful deciduous arbor tree and a world-famous ornamental tree species.