seedling
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Eighty years of students coming through the halls of Dorsey watched the small seedling sprout into a towering, beautiful beast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
This was as a result of feral goats who ate every tree seedling which then prevented the forest from regenerating.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
This doomed seedling was part of a National Park Service planting effort to replace dozens of Joshua trees cut down by a Southern California Edison contractor tasked with protecting the company’s power lines.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
In both cases, peroxisomes expanded during the seed to seedling stage as expected.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026
Hanako tried again, and her seedling didn’t stand straight, but it did stand straighter than her previous attempt.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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Yurok revegetation crews culled invasive weeds and planted nearly half a million native seedlings across 50 species, including redwoods and black cottonwood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The government has promised to compensate for the swathes of trees cut down by planting seedlings in Haryana -- a northern state next to New Delhi.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
"In the beginning, everybody had the seedlings, so the crossing and then the seed pods give plants, but we at Floricultura introduced meristems," Stefan Kuiper tells me.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
For a company that plants more than a 100 million seedlings a year, or 190 a minute, the savings add up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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