saplings

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During the Bounty’s infamous mutiny, Tahitian breadfruit saplings filled its hold.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Regrown forests, especially with monoculture commercial saplings planted rank and file, may never achieve the splendid complexity of virgin forests.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The work follows the planting of 450 saplings at the site in March 2025.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

Only raccoons are said to live in the Karlshorst buildings and birch saplings are sprouting out of a balcony.

From Barron's • Feb. 8, 2026

The ground beneath them was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coconuts and palm saplings.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding