Sentence examples for tree genus from inspiring English sources

In North America, the most popular Christmas trees are various species of fir tree (genus Abies).

In the case of the Hymenea tree genus, this observation led to the discovery of antifungal chemicals.

Tahina palm (Tahina spectabilis), also called dimaka, sole member of the palm tree genus Tahina (family Arecaceae).

Like many other lobe-leafed plants commonly called oak, poison oak is not an oak tree (genus Quercus).

For centuries an oil derived from the seeds of the chaulmoogra tree (genus Hydnocarpus) had been used to treat leprosy and other skin conditions in India and China.

Box, In botany, an evergreen shrub or small tree (genus Buxus) of the box family (Buxaceae), best known for the ornamental and useful boxwoods.

The reddish brown wood of quebracho trees (genus Schinopsis, especially S. lorentzii) yields commercial tannin.

Food of the common iguana consists largely of leaves, buds, flowers, and fruits of fig trees (genus Ficus), although many other trees are also fed upon.

Researchers in the U.S. and Belgium identified two species of microbes growing on the inside of roots of poplar trees (genus Populus) that boost the trees' productivity on barren or contaminated soils.

However, in the forest trees genus Populus a family of NP-like proteins function as an important ecophysiological adaptation for inter- and intra-seasonal nitrogen storage and cycling.

Our tri-trophic study system comprises gall-inducing herbivorous wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae), whose distributions within the Western Palaearctic are tightly coupled to those of their host oak trees, genus Quercus [ 7], and parasitoid natural enemies [ 8].