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Plantlife: Trees Welcome to the trees section.
Tree, perennial plant having an upright woody main stem, and usually the tallest of plants at maturity. A tree differs from a shrub in that it usually produces a single main stem, or trunk, and from an herb in that the stem is composed almost entirely of woody tissue. Trees of some smaller species sometimes develop with more than one stem, like a shrub, but most species of larger size grow only in tree form. Some species, when they reach maturity, are only 460 centimetres high, with trunks as slender as 15 centimetres in circumference; the largest species may reach higher than 11 200 centimetres, with trunks that have a diameter of more than 600 centimetres. Trees are popularly grouped into two broad categories: evergreen and deciduous trees. (These categories do not correspond strictly to the scientific classifications described below.) Evergreens are those that bear foliage throughout each year, constantly shedding a small proportion of the older leaves and replacing them with new leaves. Two evergreen leaf types are common: (1) needle leaf, typified by the tough, narrow or scale-like resinous leaves of most conifers; and (2) broadleaf angiosperms, most common in tropical areas, but found in temperate areas as well. Deciduous trees are broad-leaved and lose their foliage each year, usually at the approach of the coldest and/or darkest season. Please feel welcome to explore this trees section by selecting one of the species below for information.
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Here
in the trees section you can find out about many of the trees growing inside the
Kruger National Park. 