4/1/2017 TreeWikipedia

4 Partsandfunction
4.1 Roots
4.2 Trunk
4.3 Budsandgrowth
4.4 Leaves
4.5 Reproduction
4.6 Seeds
5 Evolutionaryhistory
6 Treeecology
7 Uses
7.1 Food
7.2 Fuel
7.3 Timber
7.4 Art
7.4.1 Bonsai
7.4.2 Treeshaping
7.5 Bark
7.6 Ornamentaltrees
7.7 Otheruses
8 Care Lepidodendron,anextinct
9 Mythology lycophytetree
10 Superlativetrees
11 Seealso
12 Notes
13 References

Definition
Although"tree"isatermofcommonparlance,thereisnouniversally
recognisedprecisedefinitionofwhatatreeis,eitherbotanicallyorin
commonlanguage.[2]Initsbroadestsense,atreeisanyplantwiththe
generalformofanelongatedstem,ortrunk,whichsupportsthe
photosyntheticleavesorbranchesatsomedistanceabovetheground.[3]
Treesarealsotypicallydefinedbyheight,[4]withsmallerplantsfrom0.5to
10m(1.6to32.8ft)beingcalledshrubs,[5]sotheminimumheightofatree
isonlylooselydefined.[4]Largeherbaceousplantssuchaspapayaand
bananasaretreesinthisbroadsense.[2][6]

Acommonlyappliednarrowerdefinitionisthatatreehasawoodytrunk
formedbysecondarygrowth,meaningthatthetrunkthickenseachyearby
growingoutwards,inadditiontotheprimaryupwardsgrowthfromthe
growingtip.[4][7]Undersuchadefinition,herbaceousplantssuchaspalms, Diagramofsecondarygrowthina
bananasandpapayasarenotconsideredtreesregardlessoftheirheight, eudicotorconiferoustreeshowing
growthformorstemgirth.Certainmonocotsmaybeconsideredtreesunder idealisedverticalandhorizontal
aslightlylooserdefinition[8]whiletheJoshuatree,bamboosandpalmsdo sections.Anewlayerofwoodis
nothavesecondarygrowthandneverproducetruewoodwithgrowth addedineachgrowingseason,
thickeningthestem,existingbranches
rings,[9][10]theymayproduce"pseudowood"bylignifyingcellsformedby androots.
primarygrowth.[11]

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