"Aston Villa F.C.–West Bromwich Albion F.C. rivalry Aston Villa F.C. and West Bromwich Albion F.C. are two English football clubs from the West Midlands who share a local rivalry. The matches between them are known as West Midlands derbies. Their stadiums, Villa Park and The Hawthorns respectively, are four miles away from each other. Both clubs have bigger rivals—Birmingham City for the former in the Second City derby, and Wolverhampton Wanderers for the latter in the Black Country derby. A 2010 article in ""The Daily Telegraph"" ranked the rivalry between Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion as the third most"
"colours, the same colours of the Italian flag, at the same time red for fruits and white for flowers, beyond the green colour of leaves, was considered, indeed, a symbol of the flag. Arbutus unedo Arbutus unedo, the strawberry tree, is an evergreen shrub or small tree in the family Ericaceae, native to the Mediterranean region and western Europe north to western France and Ireland. Due to its presence in southwest and northwest Ireland, it is known as either ""Irish strawberry tree"", or cain or cane apple (from the Irish name for the tree, ""caithne""), or sometimes Killarney strawberry tree."
"emblem. The ""broomscod"", or seed-pod, was the personal emblem of Charles VI of France. Cytisus scoparius Cytisus scoparius, the common broom or Scotch broom, syn. ""Sarothamnus scoparius"", is a perennial leguminous shrub native to western and central Europe. In Britain and Ireland, the standard name is broom, but this name is also used for other members of the Genisteae tribe, such as French broom or Spanish broom, and the term common broom is sometimes used for clarification. In other English-speaking countries, the most prevalent common name is Scotch broom (or Scot's broom); It is known as English broom in Australia."
"some small-leaved lime. To the north, the area comprises ancient woodland of old coppice with standards and contains a rich variety of trees. Rare trees include Bristol whitebeam (""Sorbus bristoliensis"") and wild service tree (""Sorbus torminalis""). There are multiple species of Sorbus within the woods with at least nine native and four imported species, making it one of the most important sites in Britain for this tree. Birds which live in the woods include the raven (""Corvus"") and peregrine falcon (""Falco peregrinus""). Many butterflies and moths can be seen in summer including the white-letter hairstreak (""Satyrium w-album""). On the steep"
"the old hawthorn scrub. The most famous tree in the Forest was the Doodle Oak, which was one of the largest trees ever to grow in England. It last bore green leaves in 1858 and its site is marked in the north of the Forest. Plants: A total of over 400 species have been found in the Forest. Some of the more common ones are: white clover, common spotted orchid, selfheal, sheep’s sorrel, herb robert, bugle, agrimony, bee orchid, perforate St John’s wort, common field speedwell, bird's foot trefoil and, perhaps, most notable of all, buttercups (the Forest has perhaps"
"Widbrook, from which it takes its name, flows through the west. Widbrook Wood Widbrook Wood is a small forest to the north of Trowbridge and to the south-east of Bradford on Avon, in Wiltshire, England, growing in the valley of the Bristol Avon. It is made up of a mixture of deciduous and evergreen trees and several types of fruit tree. Planted in late 2000 for conservation reasons it is an important haven for wildlife, especially many birds and. It is bordered on the south by the Kennet and Avon Canal, and to the north by the Avon. The River"
"(""Fagus sylvatica""), small-leaved lime (""Tilia cordata"") and wych elm (""Ulmus glabra""), as well as English oak (""Quercus robur"") and sessile oak (""Quercus petraea""). Several insect, bird and other animals have been recorded on the site. Birds include Eurasian sparrowhawks, common sandpipers, long-tailed tits, red-legged partridges, Eurasian skylarks, mallards, greater white-fronted geese and meadow and tree pipits. However the only amphibian found is the common frog. Lower Hael Wood Lower Hael Wood is a semi-ancient woodland and Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), noted for its biological characteristics, in Monmouthshire, south east Wales. It is part of the wider Hael Woods"
"The fruit is a fleshy white berry-like drupe about a centimeter wide which contains two seeds. The plant sometimes reproduces via seed but it is primarily vegetative, reproducing by sprouting from its spreading rhizome. Birds disperse the seeds after they eat the fruit. This shrub is an important food source for a number of animals, including bighorn sheep, white-tailed deer, and grizzly bears. Livestock such as cattle and sheep readily browse it. Many birds and small mammals use it for food and cover. Pocket gophers dig burrows underneath it during the winter. The fruit and shrub itself are poisonous to"
"berries, but a true berry is a simple fruit produced from a single ovary, whereas a pome is an accessory fruit. Rowan is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species; see Lepidoptera that feed on ""Sorbus"". The best-known species is the European rowan ""Sorbus aucuparia"", a small tree typically 4–12 m tall growing in a variety of habitats throughout northern Europe and in mountains in southern Europe and southwest Asia. Its berries are a favourite food for many birds and are a traditional wild-collected food in Britain and Scandinavia. It is one of the hardiest"
"a yellow coloured berry, 4 to 6 mm long. Round pale coloured seeds 3 mm in diameter. Germination from fresh seed occurs without difficulty within seven weeks. The fruit is eaten by birds including the brown cuckoo dove, green catbird, Lewin's honeyeater, rose crowned fruit dove and topknot pigeon. Streblus brunonianus Streblus brunonianus, known as the whalebone tree, is a small tree in the fig family. Commonly seen in a variety different types of rainforest, particularly by streams. ""Streblus brunonianus"" occurs from near Milton (35° S) in the southern Illawarra district of New South Wales to Cape York Peninsula at"
"monkey before germination commences. The berries are eaten locally, either fresh and raw, fermented with traditional beer, or used with goats milk to make berry yoghurt. Grewia occidentalis Grewia occidentalis, the crossberry, is a small, hardy, attractive tree indigenous to Southern Africa. A small, scrambling, deciduous tree reaching a height of about 3m, its purple, star-shaped flowers appear in summer, followed by distinctive four-lobed berries (from where it gets its common names ""crossberry"" and ""four-corner""). These shiny reddish-brown fruits remain on the tree for long periods and are favoured by fruit-eating birds. The simple leaves are shiny, deep green and"
"name for the tree. Tawa trees produce small inconspicuous flowers followed by 2 - 3.5 cm long fruit of a dark red plum colour. With such large fruits the tawa is notable for the fact that it relies solely on the New Zealand pigeon (kereru) and, (where present), the North Island kokako for dispersal of its seed. These are the only remaining birds from New Zealand's original biota large enough to eat the fruits of this tree and pass the seeds through their guts and excrete them unharmed. Tawa can also support significant epiphyte gardens in their canopies, which are"
"for the carvings in St. Paul's Cathedral, Windsor Castle, and Chatsworth. It is also commonly used for lightweight projects such as carved spoons, light furniture, bee hives and honeycomb frames. ""Tilia cordata"" is the national tree of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. The leaf of ""Tilia cordata"" is also considered a national symbol of Slovenia. Tilia cordata Tilia cordata (small-leaved lime, occasionally littleleaf linden or small-leaved linden) is a species of ""Tilia"" native to much of Europe. It is found from Britain through central Fennoscandia, to central Russia, and south to central Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania,"
"followed by bunches of pea-sized, shiny yellow fruits turning red or black when ripe. The wood is hard and fine-grained, yellowish-brown in colour. Psychotria capensis The Bird-berry (""Psychotria capensis"" ) is a southern African evergreen shrub or small tree. It belongs to a genus which is used medicinally in many regions, 'Psychotria' being from the Greek for 'rejuvenating', in reference to the healing properties of certain species. Kew lists some 2,000 species of ""Psychotria"" growing throughout the warmer regions of both hemispheres, but only two of them occur in southern Africa, namely ""P. capensis"" and ""P. zombamontana"". It occurs along"
"European ash (""Fraxinus excelsior""), Turkey oak (""Quercus cerris""), European black pine, (""Pinus nigra""), Scots pine (""Pinus sylvestris""), black locust (""Robinia pseudoacacia""), wild cherry (""Prunus avium""); Lungwort (""Pulmonaria officinalis""), wild arum (""Arum maculatum""), windfower (""Anemone nemorosa""), yellow wood anemone (""Anemone ranunculoides""), smooth meadow-grass (""Poa pratensis""), red fescue (""Festuca rubra""). Fallow deer (""Dama dama""), red deer (""Cervus elaphus""), roe deer (""Capreolus capreolus""), red fox (""Vulpes vulpes""), wild boar (""Sus scrofa""), European pine marten (""Marten marten""), European hamster (""Cricetus cricetus""), wildcat (""Felis silvestris""); Avifauna include the lesser spotted woodpecker (""Dendrocopos minor""), tree pipit (""Anthus trivalis""), Eurasian scops owl (""Otus scops""), European greenfinch (""Carduelis"
"small to mid-sized tree with a dense canopy, up to 20 metres high and a stem diameter of 35 cm. Often multi-stemmed, with up to 12 stems from the same root base. Leaves are 5 to 9.5 cm long, 1.5 to 3 cm wide Dark green above, pale or whitish below. The leaf stalk is grooved, 5 to 10 mm long. Oil dots may clearly be seen under a lens. The bark is soft, papery and fissured, grey brown in colour. Small white flowers appear in December to January. The fruit is a berry, starting green, then turning yellow, orange,"
"the trunk is thick. The crown is flat-topped and spreading. Although the wood is soft and brittle, the limbs are strong enough to support birds such as chachalacas. The simple leaves are alternate, ovate or elliptic, and long. Flowers are in lateral cymes and are in diameter. The five-lobed corolla is white and the five stamens have yellow anthers. The fruit is a yellow berry in diameter with many seeds. The specific epithet, ""erianthum"", is derived from the Greek words ἔριον (""erion""), meaning ""wooly"", and ἄνθος (""anthos""), meaning ""flower,"" referring to the dense trichomes (hairs) on the flowers. Other parts"
"which includes wych elm, crab apple and guelder rose. Flowers include primroses and bluebells, and in wetter areas there are ragged robin and marsh bedstraw. The woods have the largest British breeding colony of the nationally rare black hairstreak butterfly. There is access from the A41 road and Grendon Road Ham Home-cum-Hamgreen Woods Ham Home-cum-Hamgreen Woods is a 23.2 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in KIngswood near Grendon Underwood in Buckinghamshire. It is composed of two separate areas, Ham Home Wood and Hamgreen Wood, and is a small part of the formerly extensive Bernwood Forest. The site is"
"commonly known as the ""bear's head"" or the ""western coral hedgehog"". The fruit body forms a compact, branched mass with long spines hanging down. The branches originate from a single, thick, tough base. The color of the fruit body ranges from white to creamy, light yellowish, to salmon-buff. The hanging spines are usually long, although some may be as long as ; they are soft and brittle, and typically grow as clusters at the tips of the branches. Typically, fruit bodies have dimensions in the range of tall and wide, but they have been known to attain massive sizes; one"
"of small trees line its front fence and more along with shrubs are nearer the house which is set well back from the fence and up a small slope. An Illawarra flame tree (""Brachychiton acerifolius"") is near the front gate. Two Lord Howe Island palms (""Kentia fosteriana"") are along the front path uphill. Other trees are to the house's northern side. Old-fashioned perennials such as flowering sages (Salvia sp./cv.), bushes such as Cape leadwort or plumbago (P.capensis) grow along its front fence. Main trees comprise Californian desert fan palm (""Washingtonia robusta""), coastal banksia (""B.integrifolia"") - a large old specimen to"
"rainforest birds such as rose-crowned fruit-dove and superb fruit-dove. Symplocos stawellii Symplocos stawellii, or the white hazelwood, is a rainforest tree growing in eastern Australia. It often grows along creeks in gullies, in tropical and sub-tropical rainforests. The natural distribution is from Gerringong Creek in the upper Kangaroo Valley (34° S) of New South Wales to the Atherton Tableland (17° S) in tropical Queensland. It also occurs in New Guinea. A small to medium-sized tree, up to 30 metres tall and 80 cm in diameter, but usually much smaller. The trunk is straight and cylindrical, the butt is flanged in"
"dwelling flora including mosses and liverworts, such as red leskea, sharp rock-bristle and the very rare ""Zygodon gracilis"". The ledges also support woodrush, polypody and water avens, purple saxifrage, yellow saxifrage, hoary whitlowgrass and roseroot. Blue moor-grass can also be found, with sheep's-fescue and herbs such as thyme, salad burnet and common rock-rose. There is wild thyme, common milkwort, fairy flax, bird's-foot trefoil, autumn gentian, harebell, eyebright. Species of tree and shrub include ash, downy birch, hazel, hawthorn, yew and rowan. In the woods shrubs such as wild privet and spindle can be found. More rare is dark red helleborine."
"the largest range of food plants of any British butterfly. Early butterfly collectors thought that the only food plant was bramble (blackberry) ""Rubus fruticosus"" but as its habits became better understood the list grew and will probably continue to do so. Depending on the habitat it will use common rock rose ""Helianthemum nummularium"", bird's-foot trefoil ""Lotus corniculatus"", gorse ""Ulex europaeus"", broom ""Cytisus scoparius"", Dyer's greenweed ""Genista tinctoria"", bilberry ""Vaccinium myrtillus"", dogwood ""Cornus sanguinea"", buckthorn ""Rhamnus cathartica"", cross-leaved heath ""Erica tetralix"" and bramble. The wide range of food plants means that this butterfly is able to use a wide range of"
"leaves are arranged alternately, and are pinnate, with (7–)11–35 leaflets. A terminal leaflet is always present. The flowers are borne in dense corymbs; each flower is creamy white, and 5–10 mm across with five petals. The fruit is a small pome 4–8 mm diameter, bright orange or red in most species, but pink, yellow or white in some Asian species. The fruit are soft and juicy, which makes them a very good food for birds, particularly waxwings and thrushes, which then distribute the rowan seeds in their droppings. Due to their small size the fruits are often referred to as"
"is a small berry, initially red then turning to shiny black as it matures from October to December. The berries can measure up to in diameter. The fruit is eaten by various birds, including the brown cuckoo dove, figbird, green catbird and rainbow lorikeet. Removing the seed from the fleshy aril is advised to assist germination. Rhodamnia rubescens Rhodamnia rubescens, the scrub stringybark, brush turpentine, or brown malletwood, is a rainforest tree of eastern Australia. Identified by a stringy type of bark and three veined leaves, it grows in a variety of different rainforests from the Batemans Bay region (35°"
"several species of flora with European elements, Central European and Euro-Asian. Vegetation of forests consists of trees and shrubs: English Oak (""Quercus robur""), Common hornbeam (""Carpinus betulus""), European beech (""Fagus sylvatica""), European ash (""Fraxinus excelsior""), Turkey oak (""Quercus cerris""), Sessile Oak (""Quercus petraea""), Black Alder (""Alnus glutinosa""), European yew (""Taxus baccata""), Manna Ash (""Fraxinus ornus""), Turkish Hazel (""Corylus colurna""), European Cornel (""Cornus mas""), Eurasian smoketree (""Cotynus coggygria""), Ruscus (species of: ""Ruscus aculeatus"" or ""Ruscus hypogllosum"") or Lilac (""Syringa vulgaris""). Species of grass: orchid (""Himantoglossum caprinum""), Fritillaria (""Fritillaria montana""), yellow linum (""Linum uninerve""), Asplenium ceterach (""Ceterach officinarum""), Cephalaria (""Cephalaria laevigata""), monkey"
"a single style; they are moderately fragrant. The flowers are pollinated by midges, bees and other insects and later in the year bear numerous ""haws"". The haw is a small, oval dark red fruit about 10 mm long, berry-like, but structurally a pome containing a single seed. Haws are important for wildlife in winter, particularly thrushes and waxwings; these birds eat the haws and disperse the seeds in their droppings. The common hawthorn is distinguished from the related but less widespread Midland hawthorn (""C. laevigata"") by its more upright growth, the leaves being deeply lobed, with spreading lobes, and in"
"along the top of the trunk. From the bottom upper stem, a beard like structure made out of dry fan shaped leaves extend to cover approximately half the trunk which is the famous petticoat, an extremely attractive feature to anyone. However, the function of the petticoat is unknown. [2] Copernicia macroglossa is a monoecious palm, with hermaphroditic flowers. The white flowers are followed by 1 inch black fruits that are usually oval in shape. [3] Late in the summer, the small fruits ripen to a dark black color that attracts many birds and bats which act as the main dispersers"
"to the proboscises of nocturnal hawkmoths. The leaves are smooth, shiny, whorled and entire, and clustered at the ends of branchlets. The fruit is oval, hard, woody and fibrous, about 80 mm long and about 40 mm in diameter, light grey with small raised white spots and if not eaten by large browsers or elephant, will remain on the tree for years. Its common names include forest gardenia, ""mutarara"" (in the Shona language), tree gardenia, white gardenia and wild gardenia. In Afrikaans it is variously known as ""buffelsbol"" (""buffalo ball""), ""stompdoring"" (""blunt thorn""), or ""wildekatjiepiering"" (""wild gardenia""). The tree is"
"leaves are deciduous and are absent for much of the year, leaving the shrub a naked thicket of gray twigs coated in waxy whitish hairs. The ends of the twigs taper into sharp-tipped thorns. The thick, glandular gray or green leaves have oval blades 1 or 2 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a cluster of several dull yellow-green flowers. The fruit is a mealy, juicy drupe containing one seed. The fruit provides food for many species of birds and mammals. Birds use the shrub as a nesting site and the southern plains woodrat uses the twigs to build its houses."
"more likely to grow once they have been through a cassowary. Another of the few animals that can eat the fruit is the white-tailed rat (""Uromys caudimaculatus""). However, it does not assist in the growth of the seeds as the cassowary does, as it tears the poisonous skin off and feeds on the seeds within. Cerbera floribunda Cerbera floribunda, commonly known as cassowary plum, grey milkwood, brebong, biegbau or babai, is a species of ""Cerbera"" native to New Guinea and Tropical North Queensland in Australia. It is a favourite food of North Queensland’s iconic flightless bird, the southern cassowary (""Casuarius"
"and the smallest, the treble, is about 5 cwt or 250 kg. In the churchyard is a thorn tree grown from a cutting from the Glastonbury Thorn. A blossom from this tree is sent to the Queen every Christmas. At the end of term, the pupils of St John's Infants School gather round the tree in St John's parish churchyard on the High Street. They sing carols, including one specially written for the occasion, and the oldest pupil has the privilege of cutting the branch of the Glastonbury Thorn that is then taken to London and presented to Her Majesty"
"to the thorns of some species. The name haw, originally an Old English term for hedge, applies to the fruit. ""Crataegus"" species are shrubs or small trees, mostly growing to tall, with small pome fruit and (usually) thorny branches. The most common type of bark is smooth grey in young individuals, developing shallow longitudinal fissures with narrow ridges in older trees. The thorns are small sharp-tipped branches that arise either from other branches or from the trunk, and are typically 1–3 cm long (recorded as up to in one case). The leaves grow spirally arranged on long shoots, and in"