On May 31, 2006, we collected leaves from shaded branches of 18 cultivated trees and from the lowest branches (often 20 to 25 m high) of 11 wild trees.
Be ruthless with sprout removal, because if too many new branches crowd one another, the tree will be back where it started, with shaded, dank branches.
He painted the windows of his home black, and cut the shading branches of a pitiable birch tree on his lawn down to lifeless stumps.
The resinous leaves of the fertile branches occur in four ranks and are up to 8 cm (about 3 inches) long, stiff, flattened, and narrowly strap-shaped; those of shade branches and juveniles are two-ranked, shorter, and narrower.
If the tree is growing in an open space, it will branch out near the ground and grow a crown that measures between 60 feet (18.3 m) and 80 feet (24.4 m) in diameter; however, a tree that is growing in a cramped and shaded space will branch higher from the ground and bear a narrower crown.
This suggests that the underside of L. kotschyanum was lower-light acclimated, in a similar manner to self-shaded branch bases in the temperate coralline alga Lithothamnion glaciale[ 12].
"It's 84 steps," said a smiling Tiger, the manager of House 2, the restored, early 20th-century villa where I'd be staying, as we peered up at the rickety stone staircase shaded by drooping branches of bamboo.
Behind a high stone wall, in twin graveyards shaded by the heavy branches of gnarled ficus and eucalyptus trees, lie the missionaries and mercenaries who were the first Americans in Egypt.
The picnic area, shaded by large tree branches, was littered with trash and covered in graffiti Thursday afternoon.
Based on their host types, the branches are shaded red (vertebrate-specific), yellow (vertebrate and arthropod), green (plant and arthropod), blue (non-arthropod invertebrates), or black (arthropod only).
