Pruning type affects decay and structure of crapemyrtle

Journal of Arboriculture

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 48-53

  Gilman, Edward F ^a   Knox, Gary W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrier zone; Canopy cleaning; Decay; Pollarding; Restoration pruning; Topping

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; PRUNING;

LAGERSTROEMIA; LAGERSTROEMIA INDICA;

EID: 12144283825     PISSN: 02785226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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