shrubs
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The shrubs may reach full size around year 10, but it takes them two to three decades to fully mature and rebuild their bank of seeds underground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Males typically call from leaves on shrubs and bromeliads several meters above the forest floor.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
Wooden baskets swinging behind them, the Flemings and Schifferles darted between trees, dug through patches of ivy and peered beneath shrubs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Vegetation turning brown, even on this scale, does not mean the plants have disappeared or died, as grass, shrubs and some trees can recover once rainfall returns, provided their root systems remain intact.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
At one end of the central section was a cage of live birds in a little park of plastic trees and shrubs.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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