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Conifers are most abundant in cool temperate and boreal regions, where they are important timber trees and ornamentals, but they are most diverse in warmer ...
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Conifers are a group of trees and shrubs that produce cones. The cones carry their seeds. Most conifers are evergreens, or trees that keep their leaves ...
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The trees and shrubs known as conifers produce woody cones with seeds attached to the scales. Most conifers are evergreen trees with needle-shaped leaves.
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conifer, Any member of the order Pinales, woody plants that bear their seeds and pollen on separate cones.
a bush or tree (such as a pine) that produces cones and that usually has leaves that are green all year. Most conifers are evergreen.
Conifer trees grow their seeds inside cones, and most have needle-shaped leaves. Redwoods are the tallest conifers and the tallest trees on Earth.
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coniferous forest, vegetation composed primarily of cone-bearing needle-leaved or scale-leaved evergreen trees, found in areas that have long winters and ...
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Conifer species are unevenly distributed. The Eurasian continent is richest in conifers, but every region has its own endemic genera and species. The most ...
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Cycads are dioecious, meaning an individual only produces male or female cones. All genera bear microstrobili consisting of an axis with microsporophylls ...