Plants

Holley- Pine Tree


 * A Pine Tree can grow to be over sixty feet tall and thirty feet wide!
 * They reproduce from seeds in a cone called pine cones.
 * To grow a Pine Tree they have to have any type of soil, full sun, but once they are grown they need very little water.
 * The Southern Pine Beetle is the most destructive pest for the Pine Tree.
 * At one time around 1,000 Southern Pine Beetles attack one Pine Tree.
 * There are over one hundred different types of Pine Trees!
 *  Pine Trees Are Used For Furniture and lawn decoration.
 * The most common types of pine trees are:


 * 1)  White Pine
 * 2)  Long Leaf Pine
 * 3)  Shortleaf Pin
 * 4) Sugar pine
 * 5) Red Pine
 * 6)  Bristlecone Pine
 * 7) <span style="color: #0089ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;"> Foxtale Pine
 * 8) <span style="color: #0089ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;"> Pinyon Pine
 * 9) <span style="color: #0089ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;"> Jeffrey Pine
 * 10) <span style="color: #0089ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Lodgepole Pine
 * 11) <span style="color: #0089ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;"> Eastern White Pine
 * 12) <span style="color: #0089ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;"> Western White Pine
 * 13) <span style="color: #0089ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;"> Pitch Pine
 * 14) <span style="color: #0089ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;"> Jack Pine
 * 15) <span style="color: #0089ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;"> Loblolly Pine
 * 16) <span style="color: #0089ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;"> Slash Pine
 * 17) <span style="color: #0089ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Virginia Pine
 * 18) <span style="color: #0089ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;"> Ponderosa Pine

<span style="color: #12ba12; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Dakota -Oak



 * <span style="color: #2aa72a; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Oak timber will always be of peculiar value for many purposes
 * <span style="color: #2aa72a; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Rugged bark
 * <span style="color: #2aa72a; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Deciduous Trees
 * <span style="color: #2aa72a; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Have broad leaves and are widely spread
 * <span style="color: #2aa72a; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Drink up to 50 or more gallons of water per day
 * <span style="color: #2aa72a; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Oak trees may live to be more than 200 years old
 * <span style="color: #2aa72a; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Acorns increase year after year
 * <span style="color: #2aa72a; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Take up water through their root system

<span style="color: #12ba12; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Eliza​- Arctic Willow
<span style="color: #2aa72a; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Salix Arctica · In the North American tundra · 15-35 cm of precipitation a year · Prefers a dry cold open place · 15-20cm in height · Long trailing branches · Oval shaped leaves light green on top dark on the bottom · Long hair on leaves · Net like vines · Blooms in the spring · In its strongest growth season it forms a pesticide to keep the Arctic wooly bear away. · Many studies are being preformed on it · It has a shallow root depth · No fruit · Leaves 15-50 mm in length · Plentiful in the wild · Short growing season · Frozen ground under the permafrost causes the roots to be shallow · The flowers are upright spikes and are unisexual. No petals and are brown or pink. 5cm in length.

Hunter -Birch Tree



 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Forty to fifty feet high
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Grows at an altitude of 9,000
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">A foot in diameter
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">They can grow in the Arctic Circle
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Silvery-white bark
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Birch trees can survive where many organisms cannot survive
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Grows best in light soil
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">They seeds are moved by wind
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">You can make root beer from this tree

Jacob - Arctic Poppy



The arctic poppy is extremely tough, but its flower petals are delicate. It is yellow and can grow up to 25 cm in height. The arctic poppy is covered in black hair. The arctic poppy is heliotropic meaning it turns its face to follow the sun. It does this to attract insects to the centre of its bloom. The arctic poppy is mainly inhabited in the arctic meadows. This plant likes to grow in rocks because rocks absorb the heat it needs to warmth itself.

Braden -Moss
<span style="color: #008080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mosses are small green plants growing in dense clusters in damp, shady places. Mosses can look like a green carpet. It will grow on fallen logs and at the base of trees. These nonvascular plants have an ancient lineage. Moss plants are the most common of bryophytes and have about 24,000 species. The bryophytes are structurally the simplest of all land plants. A moss plant body has no __ roots and has tiny cellular threads that serve as anchors. It also has 24,000 species! __ __ thin and delicate structure of the "leaves" causes them to lose water very easily. Mosses affect the communities in which they live as they supply food and shelter for small animals __ __ and insects. __

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