alder buckthorn การใช้
- There is hornbeam and alder buckthorn, both localised to the Wye Valley.
- On the periphery is a strip of Grey Willow and Alder Buckthorn bushes as well as Downy Birch.
- Wildlife in the nature reserve includes common alder trees, alder buckthorn, grey sallow and crack willow predominate.
- Grey willow, eared willow and alder buckthorn, illustrate the variety that may be found in the marsh meadows alongside streams and brooks.
- The European species, alder buckthorn ( " Frangula alnus " ) was of major military importance in the 15th to 19th centuries, as its wood provided the best quality charcoal for gunpowder manufacture.
- In the 1790s the government bought land at Fisherstreet from the third Earl of Egremont to set up a factory for producing high quality charcoal by using coal to heat wood, mainly willow, alder and alder buckthorn, in iron cylinders.
- The eggs are laid singly on the leaves of either common buckthorn ( " Rhamnus cathartica " ) or alder buckthorn ( " Rhamnus frangula " ) the only two food plants and females will wander far and wide in search for these particular shrubs.