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Bald Cypress
Taxodium distichum
A deciduous southern conifer that thrives in swamps and bottomlands, raising "knees" from the water and shedding its feathery needles each autumn.
Below are trees that contain the letter B anywhere in the name. Each of the 15 trees below opens to a full profile.
List of Trees That Contain B
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Banyan
Ficus benghalensis
An immense Indian fig that drops aerial roots from its branches, each maturing into a new trunk until a single tree spans an entire grove.
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Baobab
Adansonia digitata
A massive, swollen-trunked African tree that stores tens of thousands of litres of water and is sometimes called the "tree of life" of the savanna.
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Bay Laurel
Laurus nobilis
A Mediterranean evergreen of ancient cultural significance, prized for its aromatic culinary leaves and the laurel wreaths of classical victory.
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Beech
Fagus sylvatica
A graceful, smooth-barked deciduous broadleaf of European woodland, casting a deep shade that suppresses competitors and shapes climax forests.
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Black Spruce
Picea mariana
A slow-growing, narrow-crowned spruce of the North American boreal forest and muskeg, vital for pulpwood and caribou habitat.
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Black Walnut
Juglans nigra
A North American walnut treasured for its dark, richly figured timber and its tough-shelled, strongly flavoured nuts.
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Brazil Nut
Bertholletia excelsa
A towering emergent of the Amazon rainforest whose softball-sized fruits hold the familiar wedge-shaped nuts, harvested almost entirely from wild trees.
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Breadfruit
Artocarpus altilis
A starchy-fruited Pacific island tree, central to Polynesian food culture and the cargo at the heart of the mutiny on the Bounty.
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Bristlecone Pine
Pinus longaeva
A gnarled, windblown high-altitude pine of the American West, including individuals that are the oldest non-clonal living things on Earth.
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Cedar of Lebanon
Cedrus libani
A majestic evergreen conifer of the eastern Mediterranean mountains, symbol of Lebanon and source of fragrant rot-resistant timber prized since antiquity.
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Paper Birch
Betula papyrifera
A white-barked deciduous birch of the northern North American forests, whose peeling bark sheets the canoes and writing scrolls of First Nations peoples.
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Rubber Tree
Hevea brasiliensis
An Amazonian tree whose milky latex, tapped from cuts in the bark, became the foundation of the global natural-rubber industry.
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Silver Birch
Betula pendula
A graceful, pioneer deciduous tree of cool northern climates, instantly recognisable by its peeling white bark and shimmering leaves.
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Whitebeam
Sorbus aria
A handsome small European deciduous tree with white-felted leaf undersides that flash in the breeze and bright autumn berries for wildlife.
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