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Definition of stinking cedar in English: stinking cedarnoun A tree of the yew family found only in Florida, with fetid leaves, branches, and timber. Torreya taxifolia, family Taxaceae. Alternative name: Florida torreya Example sentencesExamples - The park is named for the Florida torreya tree, a medium-sized evergreen found only along a short stretch of the Apalachicola.
- Florida yew is similar to the Florida torreya, another exceedingly rare tree in the yew family.
- In the 1950s, stinking cedars started to die off - it is believed due to a fungal disease - and by the mid-'60s, no mature trees remained.
- He brought the Florida torreya tree to the attention of science and named it after Dr. Torrey.
- When American Forests reported on the status of endangered trees and their champions in 1996, four trees were on the brink: roundleaf birch, Florida torreya, key-tree cactus, and Santa Cruz cypress.
- T. taxifolia, or stinking cedar, is an extremely rare conifer that once towered fifty feet above the forested ravines of the Apalachicola drainage system in northern Florida.
- The preserve protects two of the world's rarest evergreens, the Florida torreya and Florida yew.
- Probably every existing Florida torreya in its present native habitat is a product of vegetative reproduction.
- Endangered and threatened species, numbering 54 as of August 2003, include the key tree-cactus, Chapman rhododendron, Harper's beauty, fragrant prickly-apple, two species of pawpaw, four species of ming, and Florida torreya.
- The Florida torreya was listed as federally endangered in 1984 under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, and efforts are underway to re-establish this once thriving species in its native habitat.
- A study of on-site preservation of Florida torreya by The Nature Conservancy, now largely completed, has greatly improved census information on wild populations.
Definition of stinking cedar in US English: stinking cedarnoun A tree of the yew family found only in Florida, with fetid leaves, branches, and timber. Torreya taxifolia, family Taxaceae Also called Florida torreya Example sentencesExamples - He brought the Florida torreya tree to the attention of science and named it after Dr. Torrey.
- Probably every existing Florida torreya in its present native habitat is a product of vegetative reproduction.
- The park is named for the Florida torreya tree, a medium-sized evergreen found only along a short stretch of the Apalachicola.
- The preserve protects two of the world's rarest evergreens, the Florida torreya and Florida yew.
- When American Forests reported on the status of endangered trees and their champions in 1996, four trees were on the brink: roundleaf birch, Florida torreya, key-tree cactus, and Santa Cruz cypress.
- The Florida torreya was listed as federally endangered in 1984 under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, and efforts are underway to re-establish this once thriving species in its native habitat.
- Endangered and threatened species, numbering 54 as of August 2003, include the key tree-cactus, Chapman rhododendron, Harper's beauty, fragrant prickly-apple, two species of pawpaw, four species of ming, and Florida torreya.
- In the 1950s, stinking cedars started to die off - it is believed due to a fungal disease - and by the mid-'60s, no mature trees remained.
- Florida yew is similar to the Florida torreya, another exceedingly rare tree in the yew family.
- T. taxifolia, or stinking cedar, is an extremely rare conifer that once towered fifty feet above the forested ravines of the Apalachicola drainage system in northern Florida.
- A study of on-site preservation of Florida torreya by The Nature Conservancy, now largely completed, has greatly improved census information on wild populations.
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