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The trees towards the top of the ridge were covered with moss, but all appeared subtropical; a few chesnuts, E. spinosissima occurred, Bambusa nodosis, verticillatis, and spinosis.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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It has already been stated, under O. spinosissima, that there is a close similarity between that species and O. Tuna.
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In 1793 some wild Scotch roses (_R. spinosissima_) were transplanted into a garden; [795] and one of these bore flowers slightly tinged with red, from which a plant was raised with semi-monstrous flowers, also tinged with red; seedlings from this flower were semi-double, and by continued selection, in about nine or ten years, eight sub-varieties were raised.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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Amygdalus spinosissima), maple woods with Acer pubescens, pistachio communities with Pistacea vera and fragments of open woodlands with Juniperus seravshanica are typical here.
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