Sentence examples for umbrella tree from inspiring English sources

A young black man was dead, hanged on an umbrella tree in his grandmother's yard.

Among the many broad-leaved woody evergreens used as houseplants is Brassaia actinophylla, the umbrella tree, better known as Schefflera.

The most common schefflera is the Australian umbrella tree (S. actinophylla, or Brassaia actinophylla), which can grow up to 12 m.

Valuable timber is derived from several other species, including Maesopsis eminii (African umbrella tree), Ziziphus mauritiana (Indian jujube, or Chinese apple), Z. spina-christi (Arabian jujube), and Pomaderris apetala (Australian hazel).

Schefflera (1,600 species) is the largest genus in the family and includes tropical ornamental and potted plant species such as S. actinophylla (umbrella tree, or octopus plant) and S. elegantissima (false aralia).

The light wood of Musanga cecropioides (umbrella tree) is used as a substitute for cork in floats and rafts, insulation, and model making; it is a short-lived tree, suitable for plantation culture.

Twenty-four generousuiteses are laced around mango, frangipani and umbrella trees.

We walked high into the mountains, where small plants protruded from cracks in the rocks under canopies of umbrella trees - like giant carrots - pink-flowering bottle trees and cucumber trees.

You are funnelled in from Tasso Square along a bowered avenue – more oranges and lemons, ruined statuary, magnificent umbrella trees – and find yourself in a noble villa that seems to own the bay.

From the porch of my little bungalow at the Baan Krating hotel in Khao Lak, where leafy palms and umbrella trees clung to the cliff beneath me, towering above the egg-like rocks bathed in clear water below, there was no sign of trouble whatsoever.

The sets are spare, almost abstract, with just minimal, playfully designed props — tables, umbrellas, trees and such — seen against distant flat backdrops of shifting colors and expansive vistas.