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Northern Hackberry Trunk
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Black Walnut Tree

The fruit of Black Walnuts leach a chemical called juglone that inhibits the growth of other plant species so these trees, common to moist uplands and floodplains, are usually characterized by having a ring of ground barren of all other plants surrounding them.

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Emily Buckner
18 November 2014