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well as at the more specific Glossary of plant morphology and Glossary of leaf morphology. For other related terms, see Glossary of phytopathology, Glossary...

Maple Leaf Gardens is a historic building located at the northwest corner of Carlton Street and Church Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The building...

trunk up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in diameter. The trunk develops aerial and buttressing roots to anchor it in the soil and help support heavy branches. It has...

Moreton Bay in Queensland, Australia. It is best known for its imposing buttress roots. Ficus macrophylla is called a strangler fig because seed germination...

and the species does best in a well-drained acidic soil. Compound leaf Buttress roots and rough bark Base of the petiole Foliage "Species profile—Dysoxylum...

in English. T. arjuna grows to about 20–25 metres tall; usually has a buttressed trunk, and forms a wide canopy at the crown, from which branches drop...

arch in turn led to the development of the pointed rib vault and flying buttresses, combined with elaborate tracery and stained glass windows. At the Abbey...

and trunk diameters of 30 to 80 cm (12 to 31 inches). It sometimes forms buttress roots. The bark of the jackfruit tree is reddish-brown and smooth. In the...

dense with small leaves, above a tall straight trunk. Large trees are buttressed at the base. The bark is red brown, light grey or pinkish grey with soft...

rows of columns and outside the walls to another innovation, the flying buttress. Gothic appeared in the Île-de-France region of France, around Paris, and...

pentandra, but the Old World Bombax ceiba. Canopy Underside of single leaf Thorny buttress roots and trunk base Flowers in profile Fruit close-up Twigs laden...

Romanesque style, particularly its pioneering use of the rib vault and flying buttress, its enormous and colourful rose windows, and the naturalism and abundance...

largely branchless trunk that culminates in a huge, spreading canopy, and buttress roots that can be taller than a grown person. The best-known, and most...

earliest example of the barbed quatrefoil appears on the south transept buttresses of 1260 in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. Similarly, the trefoil...

is straight, grey and cylindrical, up to 75 cm in diameter. It is not buttressed at the base. The twigs are hairy, brown and smooth. The leaves are hairy...

Heavily buttressed at the base. The bark is smooth and grey with various bumps and lenticels on the trunk. Small branches smooth, but with scars of leaf stipules...

Malaysia, the species has been recorded roosting in a cave and in the hollow buttress of a tree and shares its roosting site with Hipposideros ridleyi (Kingston...

tree with buttress roots that can reach 60 meters (200 ft) in height Rusty fig (Ficus rubiginosa), also known as Port Jackson fig or little-leaf fig Weeping...

tropical rainforests is the distinct buttress roots of trees. Instead of penetrating to deeper soil layers, buttress roots create a widespread root network...

next-to-bark measurement, pushing the tape in and out over every crevice and buttress. The measurements could also be influenced by deviation of the tape measure...