Conifers description
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pattyerker on January 25, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Fir | evergreen, pyramidal with whorled branching pattern Leaves flat and blunt or divided at tips Female cones are born upright |
| Cedar | needles are curved toward the tip and appear in tufted clusters fruit is cylindrical cone |
| Falsecypress | some native to western North America where they live 1000+ years, grows best in cooler, moist climates but often adaptable to Midwest Branches usually flattened, frond -like: leaves opposite, scale-like |
| Maidenhair tree | True gymnosperm deciduous, leaves fan shaped Dioecious |
| Juniper | varied habits dioecious, cones used to flavor gin resin can restrict plant growth |
| Dawn redwood | single species to have originated 50 million years ago Twigs, needles and cone scales appear in opposite pairs deciduous with linear, feathery, fern-like foliage |
| Spruce | stiff needles that point in all directions cones pendant at maturity p. pungens, noted for blue color a dwarf cultivar with showy red berries |
| Pine | needles in bundles of 2, 3 or 5 cone scales in some species with recurved prickle some of the world's most important timber species |
| Bald cypress | decidious knees alternate leaf bud arrangement, distinguishes it from the metasequoia Monoecious |
| Yew | most have flat green needles dioecious, female produce single-seeded, fleshy, red aril great for the shade |
| Aborvitae | erect seed cones, not showy susceptible to snow damage twigs densely covered with tiny, scale-like aromatic leaves in flat, fan-like sprays |
| Hemlock | bark cinnamon colored and furrowed leaves are short and blunt with different sizes on same branch, 2 whitish bands of stomata underneath will not thrive under hot, extremely dry conditions unrelated to poisonous, herbaceous hemlocks that are members of the parsley family |
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