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bush and shrub?
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Posted by maplec NY (My Page) on Mon, Feb 23, 09 at 2:31
| Hi,guys,
Do you know the difference between a bush and a shrub? From the pictures offering at the Google, I think they are pretty similar. And I have googled this question, but all the answers I found are not helpful to me, I mean, I do not see the difference between them from these answers. So, I was wondering if I could get some help here. Could you explain this difference in a clearer, simpler way?
Thanks in advance !!! |
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RE: bush and shrub?
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| There is no difference :-) 'Bush' is just a term non-gardeners tend to apply to a shrub.......it is not a commonly accepted botanical or horticultural term. Correctly, 'bush' is used to describe a thicket of shrubs or shrubby trees, generally all of the same type, rather than a individual plant. |
RE: bush and shrub?
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| Hi, gardengal48, Thanks for your reply. I get it now! It seems Wikipedia equates these two terms. And it also seems that there's a couple of divergences of the definition for these two words in difference regions of the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrub http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1116370 ;-) ;-) ;-) |
RE: bush and shrub?
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| Isn't a bush also a type of ex-president? ;-) In UK English, there's no difference between the two. Resin |
RE: bush and shrub?
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| Hi,pineresin, :-) :-) Thanks for your help. Nice day! |
RE: bush and shrub?
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| maplec, botanically speaking, I daresay, shrub seeks to define plants of a particular size while bush or bushy seems to describe the way a plant grows. I have seen the terms "short bushy tree" used to describe Podocarpus and mangrove. Long ago and faraway, I remember a British botanist lamenting the fact that the term "bush" was used colloquially to mean a mature rain forest. |
RE: bush and shrub?
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| ronalawn82, thank you for your kind suggestion! Thanks! :-D |
RE: bush and shrub?
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- Posted by brandon7 6b (like 7b now) TN (My Page) on
Mon, Mar 2, 09 at 15:55
| A shrub is a cultivated bush. |
My plant leaves are turning to Yellow.
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| My plant name is called OLIVA here in the Philippines. Its leaves are turning to yellow. A healthy OLIVA leaves are green. Please help. |
RE: bush and shrub?
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- Posted by brandon7 6b (like 7b now) TN (My Page) on
Tue, Mar 10, 09 at 15:34
| 1. Oliva is a genus of gastropod mollusc in the family Olividae. Not sure what type of plant would be called that. 2. Your post is in the wrong place! This is a discussion about the comparison of the words bush and shrub. 3. For help with your plants, you need to properly identify the plant and then start a new thread in the appropriate forum. |
RE: bush and shrub?
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I am not a botanist but a hobbyist gardener. Here is my understanding. Let us write it in sequence: shrub, bush and tree.
Bush is only a form of growth, multi-trunk from the ground up.
A tree is a single trunk (or a few trunks) from the ground but can diverge into branches above.
A tree can be cut to the ground, like fig, and it will tend to grow like a bush if all suckers and new shoots are allowed to grow, and it is called fig bush and not called a shrub. It can be made into a tree if all suckers and shoots are removed leaving one of the trunks to grow.
Shrub by nature of the shrubby type plants are always in the form of bushes and do not (usually) take the form of trees. Shrubs may be upright like a bush or ground-hugging. Because of the form, the term bush can be used for an upright shrub the same way a fig tree grown from suckers is called a fig bush. Ground hugging shrubs are seldom called bushes.
But that is only my understanding..! |
RE: bush and shrub?
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| I believe it is just a mater of semantics and how the person defining the plant perceives it at the given time it is observed. Get out a dictionary and check this out! Geez! |
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