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Tree crop

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Tree crop refers to any crop produced by a tree including:

  • Timber or lumber, wood processed into beams and planks
  • Tree fruit, fruit borne on various flowering trees
  • Tree nut, a tree fruit composed of an inedible hard shell and an edible seed

See also

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  • Tree farm, a privately owned forest managed for timber production
  • Tree plantation, a large-scale estate meant for farming tree products
  • Crop tree release, selecting particularly desirable trees in a young stand and removing or killing other trees
  • Agroforestry, system in which trees or shrubs are grown around or among crops
  • Silviculture, the care of forests
  • Arboriculture, the care of individual, typically ornamental, trees