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black alder
noun
A tree, , of many practical uses, growing in moist circumstances in Europe.
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The name black alder is also applied to winterberry, a type of holly.
That allows a dense forest cover of oak, beech, hornbeam, maple, poplar, and black alder.
The central region is characterized by large tracts of oak trees, with elegant birch forests in the northern portions, as well as distinctive black alder and aspen groves.
In England the inner bark of A. glutinosa (black alder) is employed as a mouthwash and as a treatment for inflamed gums or toothache.
We turn down a small dirt road, past small stands of black alder and Virginia pine, into a grove of young black locust trees.
The European alder (A. glutinosa), sometimes known as black alder for its dark bark and cones, is widespread throughout Eurasia and is cultivated in several varieties in North America.
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It is a serious pest of currants, gooseberries, black alders, and sumacs.
Nothing remains of the old-growth forest that settlers found here, but there are balsam fir, sugar maple and red maple trees, along with red and black spruce, alder and others.
In its natural state, the forest consists mainly of three tree species, Douglas-fir, western hemlock, and western red cedar, and smaller numbers of grand fir, black cottonwood, red alder, bigleaf maple, madrone, and western yew.
Some branches that are poisonous to parrots big and small are: Alder, Black Locust, Mango(only the leaves and wood), Umbrella, and Weeping fig. Make sure the parrot's claws do not wrap around the perch and touch the opposite toes or claws--this is a sign of a perch that is too small and it may harm your parrots feet.
Pink-footed geese fly overhead on their way back to Greenland, rooks caw in the beech trees, a charm of chaffinches sing from the dead branches of an alder, and black-headed gulls follow a tractor ploughing in the distance.
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