Trees: from leaves to fruits

Nine readings to find out how trees grow, bear fruit and enter people's lives. Compare leaves, cork and wood, open the schemes of the chestnut and the cranberry and observe the layers of a forest. In the end, it can continue to the table of Pedraça.

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1. Read the landscape through the plantsThe forest has a history tooNames that belong to the memory of the mountains.Read this story
2. Read the landscape through the plantsA leaf with a wavy outlineLook at the leaf’s outline and stalk on a pedunculate oak.Read this story
3. Read the landscape through the plantsWhat is hidden inside a chestnut burr?The chestnut is the fruit; the burr encloses the cluster.Read this story
4. Read the landscape through the plantsCork begins on a treeA cork oak’s bark is one of the first clues.Read this story
5. Read the landscape through the plantsNeedles come in pairsA small detail to spot on maritime pine.Read this story
6. Read the landscape through the plantsA pine cone has little homes for seedsThe woody scales hide a detail worth noticing.Read this story
7. Read the landscape through the plantsA blackberry is a small clusterA bramble’s fruit has more detail than it first appears.Read this story
8. Read the landscape through the plantsA fruit with a wingFor ash, shape helps fruit travel.Read this story
9. Read the landscape through the plantsOne tree, several visitsReturning to the same place is another way to read the seasons.Read this story