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Plumwood can refer to: Plants * '' Endiandra virens'' * ''Eucryphia moorei'' * '' Planchonella myrsinoides'', yellow plumwood * ''Terminalia grandiflora'' People * Val Plumwood (1939–2008), Australian ecofeminist philosopher and activist Places * Plumwood, Ohio See also * ''Prunus ''Prunus'' is a genus of trees and shrubs, which includes (among many others) the fruits plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots, and almonds. Native to the North American temperate regions, the neotropics of South America, and the p ...
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Endiandra Virens
''Endiandra virens'' is an Australian tree in the laurel family. Growing from Boorganna Nature Reserve north west of Taree, New South Wales to Kin Kin in Southern Queensland. Common names include White Apple, Plumwood, and New South Wales Walnut. ''Endiandra virens'' is an understorey rainforest tree. The habitat is various types of rainforest, usually on poorer soils at low altitudes. Description ''Endiandra virens'' is a small tree with bright green leaves and large fruit. Usually seven to ten metres tall with a trunk diameter of 20 cm. The bark is pale, often grey or whitish grey. The bark is not smooth, with vertical ridges, lines and bumps, somewhat soft and corky. New branchlets green and smooth, new shoots with small hairs. Leaves The leaves are alternate, not toothed. 6 to 15 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide. Oblong or lanceolate in shape. Leaves are narrow at both ends. Leaf stem 3 to 12 mm long. Glossy green above, duller below. The specific name ''v ...
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Eucryphia Moorei
''Eucryphia moorei'', commonly known as pinkwood, plumwood, or eastern leatherwood is a tree found in southeastern New South Wales, Australia. It also occurs just over the border at the Howe Range in Victoria. Pinkwood is the dominant tree species of cool-temperate rainforests of southeastern NSW. Young plants often grow as hemiepiphytes. Description ''Eucryphia moorei'' can grow to 30 metres in height. Leaves are pinnate, mostly 5–15 cm long, with usually 5–13 leaflets but they are often reduced to 3 on flowering branches. Leaflets are oblong, 1–7 cm long, mostly 5–15 mm wide, margins are entire, lamina is leathery, upper surface is dark green and ± glabrous, lower surface is white-tomentose; petiole is 10–30 mm long; lateral leaflets are sessile. Gallery Image:Eucryphia moorei Monga.jpg, ''Eucryphia moorei'', Monga National Park The Monga National Park is a national park located south west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The closes ...
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Planchonella Myrsinoides
''Pouteria myrsinoides'' is an Australian tree in the family Sapotaceae. The common names include yellow plumwood, axe-handle wood and blunt-leaved coondoo. It occurs in seaside rainforests and drier rainforests from the Forster, New South Wales to the Lakeland Downs in tropical Queensland. The subspecies ''reticulata'' occurs on Lord Howe Island and in New Caledonia. It is a small tree up to 12 metres tall with a stem diameter of 25 cm. The leaves are 2 to 10 cm long and 1 to 4 cm wide. Flowering occurs between May and November, sometimes as early as February. The fruit is a thin fleshed, purple/black berry, 1.5 to 3 cm long, containing one to three seeds. The specific epithet ''myrsinoides'' refers to a similarity of the leaves of certain plants in the genus Myrsine ''Myrsine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Primulaceae. It was formerly placed in the family Myrsinaceae before this was merged into the Primulaceae. It is found nearly worl ...
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Terminalia Grandiflora
''Terminalia grandiflora'', commonly known as yalu, plumwood or nutwood, is a tree of the family ''Combretaceae'' native to northern Australia. The Nungali and Jaru peoples know the tree as badgari and the Wagiman know it as barnyin. The weeping tree typically grows to a height of in height and is deciduous. It blooms between March and November producing white-cream-yellow flowers. The bark on younger trees is brown becoming grey and deeply fissured in older plants. The foliage is pendulous with green leaves that have blades with narrowly oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic shape, a length of and a width of . The flowers are long and have a diameter of approximately . The succulent smooth purple fruits form after December and have a globular or ovoid shape and are distinctly beaked. they are usually around long with a diameter of . The species was first formally described by the botanist George Bentham in 1864 in the work ''Flora Australiensis''. The only known synonym for th ...
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Val Plumwood
Val Plumwood (11 August 1939 – 29 February 2008) was an Australian philosopher and ecofeminist known for her work on anthropocentrism. From the 1970s she played a central role in the development of radical ecosophy. Working mostly as an independent scholar, she held positions at the University of Tasmania, North Carolina State University, the University of Montana, and the University of Sydney, and at the time of her death was Australian Research Council Fellow at the Australian National University."Val Plumwood (11 August 1939 – 29 February 2008)"
''International Society for Environmental Ethics''.
She is included in Routledge's ''Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment'' (2001).Griffin, Nicholas (2001). "Val Plumwood, 1939-", in J ...
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Plumwood, Ohio
Plumwood is a census-designated place in central Monroe Township, Madison County, Ohio, United States. It lies at the intersection of State Route 38 with Arthur Bradley Road, 8½ miles (13½ km) north of the city of London, the county seat of Madison County. The Spring Fork of the Little Darby Creek flows past the community.DeLorme. ''Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer''. 7th ed. Yarmouth: DeLorme, 2004, pp. 57, 67. . Plumwood was originally laid out on December 23, 1895, by Charles F. Sanford. The community was originally named Sanford, but the name was later changed.Bryan, Chester E., History of Madison County, Ohio', B.F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, 1915, Pg. 181. As of 1915, the community was one of the largest trade posts in the county, with three large general stores, a blacksmith, six threshing Threshing, or thrashing, is the process of loosening the edible part of grain (or other crop) from the straw to which it is attached. It is the step in grain prepa ...
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