Amelanchier Essays

  • Overview of Saskatoon Berries

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    Name: The Saskatoon berry (Amelanchier alnifolia Nutt, Rosaceae, Alder-Leaf Shadbush). Saskatoon berries seemed to have got the name from a shortened version of the Blackfoot name for the berry: mis-ask-a-tomina or the Cree name: mis-ask-quah-toomina. The origin of Amelachier is uncertain but it is what the French call the plant, which means Alder-leafed (St.-Pierre, 1991). Description: A hardy medium to tall shrub bush part of the rose family. The Rosaceae is a very large plant family that includes

  • Amelanchier Research Paper

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    Introduction Amelanchier Medic., commonly known as serviceberry or shadbush, is a genus of shrubs to trees in the Rosaceae family containing approximately twenty species. Amelanchier is native to North America, and select species are invasive in Europe (Kabuce and Priede, 2010). Habitats include roadsides, riversides, forest and meadow edges, open fields, shallow rocky substrates, acidic soils, and mountainous terrain (Mackie et al., 2001; Underwood, 2012). Species identification of Amelanchier is difficult

  • Tundra Essay

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    In this paper i will be talking about how tundra plants and other plants that live in the cold stay alive, the uses of them and how many different types of plants that are like this that there are. There are many different types of plants in the world and many different types of ecosystems like the rain forest, grasslands,and coral reefs. When i was looking for something to wright about for this class i was thinking about how all those places have good conditions for plant life and how it is good

  • The Meaning of Service

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    The Meaning of Service Service is a word used constantly.  The word service has an impression on many people.  For example; people who work as lifeguards view their work as a service to the community.  Naturally, based on working as a lifeguard their definition of service would be an action beneficial to the well-being of others.  Not surprisingly, a similar definition was found in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).  Service is described in the Oxford English Dictionary as "the action of serving