Exporting Hero and Character Trees: From Root Ball to Ship
How a hero tree crosses an ocean: soil-less root balls raised on gravel mounds, wrapped crowns, and out-of-gauge specimens craned onto ships, documented photograph by photograph.
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Method Statement: Moving Phoenix canariensis Across Oceans
Why the Canary Island Date Palm earned its own export procedure: multi-tonne root balls, a single irreplaceable growing point and establishment stakes measured per specimen.
