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  Association of British Scrabble Players - Words
a tree of the genus Bombax, the silk-cotton tree.
a tropical evergreen tree of the Garcinia genus, yielding gamboge, kokum butter, and mangosteen.
a tree with pliant branches, as in wych elm.
www.absp.org.uk /words/trees.html   (5022 words)

  
 Theater
Being it's an honor to be invited even once, coming back this second time was also really appreciated.
A genealogy project started for his school, has another relative in search of some of these same roots, too.
Saw Dennis almost return to Karamu for that third time charm and in a Langston Hughes play, yet.
dennischandler.com /Theater.html   (3176 words)

  
  Flora - Late Winter / Early Spring 2005
Pale flower bud clusters are present on trees of both sexes, although the larger buds of male trees are the ones that catch the eye.
Porokaiwhiri trees usually stand out among other trees because of their dark foliage and may be seen on any of the bush tracks.
On female trees, tiny, recently formed, greenish-brown or reddish-purple fruits are mounted on the starburst-type structures that previously held their insignificant flowers.
www.sanctuary.org.nz /whatsnew/naturescorner/nc-latewinter-earlyspring2005.html   (2157 words)

  
 Greater Wellington - The Wellington region "first fifteen"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Manatu is a common lowland forest tree up to 15 metres tall. Unusually, it is regularly leafless in winter.  Manatu flowers from mid-spring to mid summer with fruiting through summer to early autumn.
One of the largest trees in the forest, this has been the most prized tree to Maori. Totara timber was the best for building massive war canoes and was the main timber used for carving. Totara flowers in early summer and smooth red berries form in late summer. Totara look good planted in groups.
Five-finger is a common native tree found from sea level to 760 metres in forests and open scrub from North Cape to Southland.
www.gw.govt.nz /section1293.cfm   (819 words)

  
 Karamu Lodge : Marlborough Lodge Accommodation, Accommodation Marlborough Sounds, Marlborough Lodge Accommodation, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Karamu Lodge has one self contained bedroom, kitchen and en suite unit on the ground floor of the lodge proper (the "Bayview Suite") and two 3.6 metre by 3.0 metre cabins (the "Birch Huts") with an attached third cabin containing separate, shower room, toilet and kitchenette.
Karamu Lodge, is situated in the vicinity of a very safe, gently shelving swimming beach.
Karamu Lodge is situated in Karamu Bay at the head of Lochmara Bay in Marlborough, New Zealand's beautiful Queen Charlotte Sound and your hosts are Peter and Claire McDiarmid
www.tourism.net.nz /new-zealand/accommodation/lodges-and-retreats/marlborough/karamu-lodge?&enquiry=22984   (445 words)

  
 Tree Information, Trees for Sale - Heartbeat Nursery - New Zealand.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
All trees are then subjected to full summer sun and receive no further protection from the elements until frost periods.
A small tree to 10m with a spreading habit.
Please refer to the tree list page for available species if you are interested in individual specimens or are contracting a landscape design.
www.safe-shops.com /heartbeat/trees.html   (853 words)

  
 Welcome to Forest and Bird
These trees provide habitats for a range of animals from kiwi and kaka to land snails.
Karamu (Coprosma robusta) a small tree with copious small orange berries which attract birds.
Native tree brooms (Carmichealia species) PAM eats a range of native tree brooms which are some of our most colourful and aromatic plants, many already threatened with extinction due to habitat loss.
www.forestandbird.org.nz /biosecurity/pam/diet.asp   (353 words)

  
 Ecological Resoration Conference - Field Trip Photos
Wigram Retention Basin, headwaters of Heathcote catchment, with wetland sedges, rushes, harakeke, toetoe, shrubs (mikimiki, tauhinu), and young trees (cabbage tree, karamu, akeake, broadleaf, manuka, kanuka) established around the margin.
Successful species after 8 years are ngaio, akeake, kohuhu, karamu, taupata (not local), cabbage tree, harakeke, koromiko, kanuka, manuka (although suffers from blight), lemonwood, sand coprosma, shrub pohuehue, matagouri, and NZ broom.
Raupo, sedges, rushes, harakeke, cabbage tree and other species are gradually replacing the grey willows (by regeneration or planting) as they are removed.
www.landcareresearch.co.nz /news/conferences/ecorestoration/fieldtripphotos.asp   (647 words)

  
 The Qualtrough Family - New Zealand Reunion 1979 Page 3
The display of old family photographs of people and places which had been loaned for the occasion and the immense Family Tree attracted tremendous attention.
The Tree was spread across one wall of the room on a roll of wallpaper 11 metres long.
A classroom at Pakuranga College was almost completely filled with the Family Tree, photographs and other family historical documents.
www.qualtrough.org /NZ-reunion3.htm   (242 words)

  
 Bushmans Friend: New Zealand Native Plants & Nature Walks - Identify Native Plants - New ...
Shrub or small tree reaching 10 metres, however it is the largest of the Coprosma.
As the plant matures into a tree the size of the leaf may increase to 5 cm.
Common tree to 25 m of Northern lowland coastal forests.
www.bushmansfriend.co.nz /identify-native-plants-xidc17209.html   (1231 words)

  
 Tree planting for native birds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Planting shelter trees and hedges provides suitable places for nesting, as well as harbouring insects, while trees and shrubs producing edible seeds, berries, leaves, flowers or nectar will sustain a variety of birds.
A variety of native trees and shrubs can be planted to provide a year-round food supply, but plants need to be carefully selected so there are flowers and fruit at different times.
The wood pigeon or kereru is now the main seed disperser of trees such as tawa and taraire.
www.doc.govt.nz /Conservation/001~Plants-and-Animals/Tree-Planting-for-Native-Birds.asp   (413 words)

  
 Holiday trivia
The National Christmas Tree Association presents the First Family with a tree every year, after selecting it at their annual convention.
Decorating Christmas trees is an age-old German tradition in which people hung trees known as paradise trees with religious symbols.
The karamu, or feast, held on Dec. 31, is one of the high points of the seven days of Kwanzaa.
www.babycenter.com /refcap/baby/babyritual/9895.html   (1994 words)

  
 Bushmans Friend: New Zealand Native Plants & Nature Walks - Coprosma - ...
Coprosma lucida or shining karamu has the most lustrous (lucid) sheen of all Coprosma..
Berries are translucent white when ripe and the leaves spoon shaped.
Coprosma robusta karamu is widespread due to the large number of berries and seeds the plant produces and its tough leathery leaves making it ideal in a range of environments
bushmansfriend.co.nz /xurl/PageID/17757/content.html   (683 words)

  
 Chatham Islands, New Zealand
Tuku Reserve houses the small trees Dracophyllum arboreum of the Epacridaceae family, a small family almost confined to Australia and New Zealand; this entire family is very novel and new to me, and I am delighted to find these trees and sketch them.
This left an understory comprised of either native shrubs or regenerating native trees in the native vegetation of the highlands, or of lantana and other dense, exotic and noxious weeds in the disturbed vegetation of the lower elevations.
Thanks to these efforts, Hakalau Reserve is slowly being revegetated with native trees, and down wood there is playing an important "nurse tree" role for tree regeneration, but much of the upper elevation forests of the Reserve may have been irreparably lost.
www.spiritone.com /~brucem/chatham.htm   (3052 words)

  
 The December Holiday Season   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
It is said the tradition of giving gelt commemorates the year 142 B.C., when the Jewish people won independence and created their own coinage.
During the karamu, which provides the opportunity for the community to give thanks for the past year, zawadi, or gifts, are exchanged.
Although they dislike the arctic climates (elves are allowed to tend polar bears and penguins), Gnomes can be found in almost any forest or jungle, often making their homes in tree stumps, giant mushrooms and abandoned bird nests.
www.faeriebelievers.com /gnomenews/2002/december/season.htm   (942 words)

  
 eTAP Newsletter
St. Boniface is said to have used the triangular shape of the fir tree to describe the Holy Trinity of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Early trees were usually Biblical symbols of the Paradise Tree in the Garden of Eden.
The earliest known mention of such a tree was in Goethe's best-selling novel "Die Leiden des Jungen Werther" ("The Sorrows of Young Werther") in 1774.
www.etap.org /newsletter/newsletter_12_04/newsletter_12_04_teacher.html   (3376 words)

  
 EW - What to Plant in Waikato Kahikatea Forest Fragments
Once nurse plants have become established, or where an existing kahikatea stand has been heavily grazed, shade-tolerant trees and shrubs can be planted among and beneath them.
If you have a kahikatea stand that has been grazed and has no native understory plants, fence it, keep an eye on weeds and wait a couple of years to see if any native plants arrive on their own.
You can speed things up by planting some of the shrubs and trees from the first and second list (nurse plants and sheltered areas) around the edge of the stand.
www.ew.govt.nz /enviroinfo/land/biodiversity/fragments/kahikatea/kahikguide/kahikplantlist.htm   (446 words)

  
 Halley's Comment: 11/30/2003 - 12/06/2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
It's only been here a week and when we got it I thought I was jumping the gun, but it's so cheerful and pretty and elegant in it's dark green velvety majesty, turning one end of my livingroom into the dark, mysterious winter forest.
One ornament in particular that I love, and I might do a tree next year completely in thess ornaments alone -- is the tiny Dunkin Donuts white stryofoam coffee cups -- about 2 1/2 inches tall, suspended on a green ribbon, complete with the take-away lid on top.
Well, I got my Christmas Tree up yesterday and beat my last year's tree trimming efforts by nearly two weeks.
halleyscomment.blogspot.com /2003_11_30_halleyscomment_archive.html   (4815 words)

  
 Packs : Plant Catalogue : Matawhero Nursery Ltd
Shelterbelt planting: For natives such as Neighbour Blocker Pack trees, plant 1 to 1.5m apart.
Fast growing timber or firewood tree with dense crown.
Ideal firewood or timber tree on flood prone land.
www.mailorderplants.co.nz /packs.html   (326 words)

  
 Emotions Greeting Cards Holiday Page ~ Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, Chanukah
Saint Boniface told the people that this lovely evergreen, with its branches pointing to heaven, was indeed a holy tree, the tree of the Christ Child, a symbol of His promise of eternal life.
Since the tree represented not only Paradise, and man's fall, but also the promise of salvation, it was hung not merely with apples, but also with bread or wafers (Holy Eucharist) and often sweets (representing the sweetness of redemption).
Their search was long for they were required to find a tree that was as high as hope; as great as love; as sweet as charity; and one that had the sign of the cross on every bough.
www.emotionscards.com /trivia/christmas/Holidays.html   (7828 words)

  
 Cleveland: A Bicentennial Timeline
Cleveland chosen as the Fourth District headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank.
Russell and Rowena Jelliffe found the "Playhouse Settlement," forerunner of today's Karamu House.
Negro Welfare Association (forerunner of the Urban League) founded in December.
ech.cwru.edu /timeline.html   (1800 words)

  
 Minnesota Shade Tree Advisory Committee
Ken Holman announced two new publications, Minnesota Native Big Tree Registry and the May-June 2004 issue of Minnesota Conservation Volunteer, which has a great article about rain gardens.
Natural resource composite maps have been completed for all ReLeaf grantees and will be mailed out in the next couple weeks.
Tree Trust is looking for volunteers for a national tree inventory study called iTREE.
www.mnstac.org /WH/minutes/2004-Member-Minutes/Member-MIN-July-04.htm   (526 words)

  
 Betty Crocker: Kwanzaa Karamu (Kwanzaa Feast)
Although there is no set menu, meals often include traditional foods from any of the African countries.
On the sixth day of Kwanzaa, December 31, the Kwanzaa karamu (feast) is celebrated.
Whether you are having a small get-together or a large community gathering, you can use part or all of this festive menu.
www.bisquick.com /Recipes/Solution/Show_solution.aspx?rname=KwanzaKaramu&rpath=xml/holiday   (377 words)

  
 Karamu
Small erect tree or spreading shrub, early growth is fast, has dense and fibrous root system.
Dark green with paler green undersides, domatia (small holes) on undersides of leaves, prominent vein pattern.
Flower: male and female reproductive organs are borne on separate trees
www.taranakiplants.net.nz /natives/lowland/karamu.html   (106 words)

  
 theresecontent
Life at Doe Run Farm was like stepping into an idyllic painting of overlapping meadows and rolled bales of hay.
The long driveway leading up to the farmhouse was lined with old locust trees.
The house itself dated back to the 1700’s, and near to it stood a red barn and silo.
www.theresehalscheid.com /poems.html   (394 words)

  
 Karamu Homestay Home Page, Bed & Breakfast Accomodation in Auckland
Karamu Homestay is a beautiful villa located on a quiet, tree lined street in Central Auckland and is only minutes away from the bright city lights of downtown Auckland with its many restaurants and night spots.
Alternatively, if its peace and quiet you're after then Karamu Homestay is within a few minutes walk/drive from some of Auckland's most beautiful picnic areas and scenic reserve walkways.
Our modest rates include a continental breakfast in the dining room or al fresco on the balcony.
www.karamuhomestay.co.nz   (187 words)

  
 Kwanzaa Karamu (Kwanzaa Feast) from Betty Crocker
Although there is no set menu, meals often include traditional foods from any of the African countries.
On the sixth day of Kwanzaa, December 31, the Kwanzaa karamu (feast) is celebrated.
Whether you are having a small get-together or a large community gathering, you can use part or all of this festive menu.
www.bettycrocker.com /How-To/Party-Celebration-Ideas/Kwanzaa/kwanzaa-karamu.htm   (370 words)

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