What's the difference between a shrub and a tree? What does it mean for plants?

Shrubs and trees are two common kinds of plants in daily life. Many people don't know the difference between them. What are common shrubs and trees? Let's take a look at it together.

What's the difference between shrubs and trees?

1. Shrubs

Shrubs, refers to those who do not have obvious trunk, clump state of relatively small trees, generally can be divided into flowers, fruit, branches and other categories, short and clump woody plants, is perennial.

Shrubs below 3.5m in height, usually tufted with woody plants without obvious trunk, but sometimes with distinct trunk. Such as hemp leaf hydrangea, peony. Those with stem height below 0.5m are small shrubs such as Fructus euphratica. The stem is between herbaceous and woody, the upper part is herbaceous, the lower part is xylem, which is called semi-shrub or sub-shrub.

2. Arbor

A tree is a tall tree with an independent trunk from the root, with a clear distinction between the trunk and the crown. Trees are tall (usually 6 to tens of meters) with a distinct tall trunk. According to its height, it can be divided into Weiqiao (more than 31 meters), Big Qiao (2120 meters), Zhong Qiao (1120 meters) and Xiao Qiao (610 meters).

Trees are widely distributed, and trees grow in almost all known places, including the Gobi Desert, the South Pole, the North Pole and other places with bad environment. The most widely distributed is the continent with a warm and humid environment.

To sum up, the difference between shrubs and trees lies in whether there is a trunk and whether there are bifurcations at the base, generally those with obviously tall trunks are regarded as trees, while those without tall trunks and with bifurcations at the base are shrubs, this division provides only a basic conceptual distinction.

What are the shrubs and trees respectively?

1. Shrub plants

The common shrubs in our daily living environment are: rose, rhododendron, peony, privet, yellow poplar, sand cypress, spring, rose, gardenia and so on. In the environment, the ingenious combination of shrubs and trees form a beautiful green landscape.

There are many kinds of shrub plants, and most of the plants we potted indoors belong to shrub plants, with strong adaptability, fast growth and simple cultivation and management, which has become a good choice for home decoration in our lives.

2. Arbor plants

Deciduous trees: weeping willow, Robinia pseudoacacia, ginkgo, metasequoia, kudzu, ash, two-ball Platycladus orientalis, du Ying, Albizia, maple, elm, Luan, Camptotheca acuminata, Chongyang wood, red maple.

Evergreen trees: camphor, cinnamon, lobular banyan, rubber tree, privet, magnolia, sweet-scented osmanthus, crystal peach, cedar, Lechang Michelia, nanmu, Michelia deep mountain, Bauhinia, black shell nan, silver birch, white orchid.

Deciduous small trees: Magnolia, Tripterygium, begonia, cherry blossoms, peach blossoms, five-pointed maple, Chinese tallow, crape myrtle, purple leaf plum, pomegranate, hibiscus, bauhinia, red leaf plum, purple leaf peach.

Evergreen small trees: Luohan pine, oleander, dragon cypress, white thousand layer, red thousand layer, citrus, loquat, Japanese coral tree, Taiwan acacia, yellow flower cassia.