About 90 to 95 percent of the slow-growing trees, but not all of them, can serve as Christmas trees again the following year.

Lignumvitae Key is named for a slow-growing tree whose wood is heavier than water.

It is a slow-growing, low-branching tree, 30 to 50 feet tall and even wider in spread.

In turn these will be replaced by slow-growing, larger trees such as ash and oak.

They are slow-growing trees found on a wide variety of soils and sites.

This slow-growing tree - only 10 feet tall in 20 years - is just now becoming commercially available.

Consequently, the slow-growing trees have been overharvested in many areas.

This slow-growing tree is named after the heaviness and hardness of its timber.

It is a slow-growing tree and grows best in loose, unconsolidated soils.

Yet these woods are expensive primarily because they come from slow-growing trees and are in short supply.