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Ponderosa

noun

Common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature. Synonyms: bull pine, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, western yellow pine.

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Armillaria ponderosa

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... in trying to cross the potato and tomato, Burbank produced tomatoes from the seeds of plants pollenated from potato pollen only. He next produced what he called "aerial potatoes" of very peculiar twisted shapes from a potato vine grafted on a Ponderosa or large tomato plant. Then reversing this operation he grafted the same kind of tomato plant upon the same kind of potato plant and produced underground a strange-looking potato with marked tomato characteristics. He saw he was on the right road to the production ...

— Marvels of Modern Science • Paul Severing

Words linked to "Ponderosa" : western yellow pine, Pinus ponderosa, Armillaria ponderosa, bull pine, yellow pine