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'Crystal' - Dark green leaves; white flowers with purple pedicels and sepals; vigorous grower; upright, fastigate habit
JAPANESE SNOWBELL TREE ACCENTS JAPANESE MAPLE 'CRIMSON QUEEN' Pooky 2009
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In the Lombardy poplar, and in certain fastigate or pyramidal varieties of thorns, junipers, oaks, &c., we have an opposite kind of growth.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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Another fastigate oak is said to have been found wild in the Pyrenees, and this is a surprising circumstance; it generally comes so true by seed, that De
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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Hessian oak, [761] which is famous from its fastigate habit and size, bears hardly any resemblance in general appearance to a common oak;
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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Dr. Falconer informs me that in the Botanic Gardens at Calcutta the great heat causes apple-trees to become fastigate; and we {362} thus see the same result following from the effects of climate and from an innate spontaneous tendency. [
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
biocon commented on the word fastigate
Fastigate means to make or become pointed (Oxford English Dictionary).
July 10, 2011
biocon commented on the word fastigate
All of the examples on this page are misspellings of fastigiate except the lowest (bottom) two.
August 10, 2011