Pterocarya


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Noun 1. Pterocarya - Asiatic nut trees: wing nuts
dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
family Juglandaceae, Juglandaceae, walnut family - trees having usually edible nuts: butternuts; walnuts; hickories; pecans
wing nut, wing-nut - any tree of the genus Pterocarya; fruit is a small winged nutlet; Caucasus to southeastern Asia
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The dominant trees included Pterocarya stenoptera, Liquidambar formosana, Castanopsis carlesii, Pinus massoniana, some scattered bamboo forests, and others.
In addition to the more common species in the genera Ginkgo, Sequoia, Alnus, Carya, Cercidiphyllum, Fagus, Platanus, Quercus, Salix, Ulmus, and Zizyphoides, several new occurrences have been noted, including Acer, Ceanothus, Cornus, Hiraea, Liquidambar, Magnolia, Mahonia, Nymphaea, Pterocarya, Smilax, and the first North American fossil occurrence of Cotinus.
8 Platycarya strobilacea Siebold & Zuccarini 14 Pterocarya stenoptera C.
The main plants were as follows: fluitantes as diatom, Cyanophyta, and chlorella, and so forth; floating plants as Eichhornia crassipes, Nymphaeales, Floral Aquatic, Salvinia natans, and so forth; submerged plants as Ceratophyllum demersum, Potamogeton distinctus; water woody plants as Taxodium ascendens, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, dryland willow, Pterocarya stenoptera, italian popular, and so forth; water herbage as Iris wilsonii, Typha orientalis, reed, Erigeron annuus, Indian Kalimeris Herb, Common hogfenneI root, and so forth.
The understory woody plant was mainly Pterocarya stenoptera in the thinned and unthinned treatments, and it was B.
The forests in this plan are located at the altitude of 120 - 950 m, between 50[degrees] 17'10" and 50[degrees],14',40" east longitude and 37[degrees] 30'20" and36[degrees]58' north latitude belonged to the middle sector of the forests area.Generally these forests are of Carpinus betulus species mixed with species such as Parrotia persica , Alnus subcordata ,Fagus orientalis ,Acer insigne, Acer cappadocicum , Diospyros lotus and Pterocarya fraxionifolia .
En este sentido, muchas de las especies que prosperan con exito en estos ecosistemas estan perfectamente adaptadas al transporte hidrico de sus diasporas con mecanismos como la regeneracion a partir de fragmentos vegetativos (Fallopia japonica), semillas o frutos flotantes (Pterocarya x rehderiana, Bidens frondosa) o con una morfologia adaptada a la fijacion sobre diversas superficies (Xanthium strumarium, Bidens fron dosa).
This study evaluated air-dry density, some selected mechanical properties, and surface roughness of laminated veneer lumber (LVL) from Pterocarya fraxinifolia (Lam.) Spach wood.
(6) Abbotsbury still contains many of his rarities today, including the tallest Pterocarya fraxinifolia in the country and the only Villarsia mucronata known growing outdoors in Britain, besides the largest British specimen of Stranvaesia nussia (in the genus named after him, now renamed Photinia).

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