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American Robin. Photo: Mick Thompson/Audubon Photography Awards
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Tree-of-Heaven is not heavenly!
Ailanthus (Tree of Heaven) was imported from China and widely distributed in the United States as an ornamental in the late 1700s and 1800s. Its behavior, though, is far from heavenly.