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Vegetative

12-Tree habit

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A tree is a large, woody, perennial plant with one to several relatively massive trunks and an elevated crown. The boundary between a tree and a shrub is sometimes not that sharp. The photo shows the bark of an tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) (a section of its massive trunk).

Photo taken in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio by K. R. Robertson.

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