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  • noun small fast-growing spiny deciduous Chinese orange tree bearing sweetly scented flowers and decorative but inedible fruit: used as a stock in grafting and for hedges

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Examples

  • Along the clearwater Tapajós and Aripuanã Rivers, white-sand igapó forest is predominant, hosting large trees such as Triplaris surinamensis, Piranhea trifoliata, Copaifera martii, and Alchornea castaneaefolia in forest that is slightly more open than that in non-flooded areas.

    Madeira-Tapajós moist forests 2008

  • Along the clearwater Tapajós River, the white-sand igapó forest is predominant with members of the Myrtaceae family and Triplaris surinamensis, Piranhea trifoliata, Copaifera martii, and Alchornea castaneaefolia.

    Tapajós-Xingu moist forests 2008

  • When not devouring entire cows, piranhas like guavas, berries and the fruits of the Piranhea trifoliata tree.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Climbers such as Derris trifoliata and Dalbergia spinosa, undershrubs of Suaeda spp. and Acanthus ilicifolius and, very rarely, Sonneratia apetala, Xylocarpus mekongensis, Salicornia brachiata, Arthrocnemum indicum, and Sesuvium portulacastrum provide additional structure to these forests.

    Goadavari-Krishna mangroves 2008

  • When not devouring entire cows, piranhas like guavas, berries and the fruits of the Piranhea trifoliata tree.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Other typical wetland plants include various sedges, like bottle sedge Carex rostrata, white sedge C. canescens, common bog-sedge C. limosa, tall bog-sedge C. magellanica, marsh cinquefoil Potentilla palustris, common cotton-grass Eriophorum angustifolium, bogbean Menyanthes trifoliata, and cranberry Vaccinium oxycoccus.

    Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden 2008

  • The most abundant trees on the levees are Ceiba pentandra, Hura crepitans, and Parinari excelsa, and on the low levee are Pterocarpus amazonicus, Eschweilera albiflora, Piranhea trifoliata, and Neoxythece elegans.

    Purus varzea 2008

  • The most abundant species are Pterocarpus amazonicus, Piranhea trifoliata, Eschweilera albiflora and Neoxythece elegans.

    Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil 2008

  • When not devouring entire cows, piranhas like guavas, berries and the fruits of the Piranhea trifoliata tree.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Also found in wetland areas are wet graminoid herbaceous communities, dominated by sedges (e.g Eriophorum anjustifolium and Carex spp.) or codominated by sedges and herbs (e.g. Menyanthes trifoliata, Petasites frigidus, and Potentilla palustris).

    Copper Plateau taiga 2007

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