The second observation of tool use in wild gorillas, recorded in the same paper, involved another adult female called "Efi" who picked up a shrub trunk and placed it on swampy ground in front of her as a bridge.
Push a slight depression into the soil around the new shrub's trunk for holding water.
Press a slight depression into the soil around the new shrub's trunk for holding water.
It is distinguishable by having the morphological characteristics of a shrub, an unremarkable trunk, and lanceolate cataphylls and is distributed in the Yunnan Province of China, Laos, Northern Thailand, and Vietnam.
Loosen the burlap from the shrub at the trunk.
But what we take for a grove of elderberry is, in fact, a single shrub with a bent main trunk, its lateral branches shooting up and creating a thicket.
Do go for the etymological dictionary for epithets that feel historical: like, membrum virile, arbor vitae (from the late 18th century, for a type of evergreen shrub), wrinkly (early 15th century) or bole (early 14th century, from Old Norse bolr meaning tree trunk).
Monitor for pests: without the distraction of leaves, you can inspect twigs, branches and trunks of trees and shrubs for egg masses, scale and borer holes.
Turkey tails Fungi that grow on the trunks of hardwoods and shrubs, so named for their fan-like, colorful shapes, which resemble turkey feathers.
"I doubt that the Chinese were very concerned about the beauty of Camellia oleifera," he said early in December in the arboretum, leaning companionably against a trunk of this giant shrub.
