Consider the verb defer. There is no verb stem *fer. Fer is a verbal root. It is found in refer, infer, prefer, differ, prefer, offer. The forms to the left of -fer are prefixes which cannot occur in ...

Curated by University of Colorado Boulder students under the direction of Sean Babbs (Instruction Coordinator for the Libraries' Rare and Distinctive Collections) and Suzanne Magnanini (Associate ...

Bonsai trees should be planted in shallow containers with good drainage. Look for a pot that is just slightly larger than the root ball of your juniper. Terra-cotta pots are a good choice because ...

We don’t often think about the roots of trees until there is a problem. A forester friend of mine called it a “fencepost mentality.” Being underground, they are often out of sight out of mind.

Examples include fruiting trees and most annual and perennial flowering plants. ectorhizosphere - the area surrounding (extracellularly) the root where microbes fed by root derived compounds may ...

An old Qilian juniper (Juniperus przewalskii) tree growing on Delingha region on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

In the past few decades, there has been a shift in how we think about plants and garden planning. Native species — especially ...

Shoes of every stripe festoon a juniper tree beside a lonely stretch of highway ... and spread by sending up shoots from an expanding root system. (Pando is Latin for “I spread.”) ...

Although tree roots appearing at the surface of the lawn might seem problematic for us, for the trees, it’s natural.