umbrella tree
noun1
An umbrella magnolia (Magnolia tripetala).
2
An African corkwood (Musanga cecropioides).
3
An Australian rainforest tree (Polyscias murrayi).
4
An octopus tree (Schefflera actinophylla).
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An Indian almond (Terminalia catappa).
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An umbrella thorn (Vachellia tortilis).
- Virtually all the trees in the home range of the baboons are acacias of just two species: the fever tree, Acacia xanthophloea (18.4% of feeding bouts), and, on somewhat higher, drier ground, the umbrella tree, A. tortilis (5.0%).1998, Stuart A. Altmann, “Dietary Diversity”, in Foraging for Survival: Yearling Baboons in Africa, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 76: