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Floridata: Cycas revoluta
... .7 m). Modified leaves form the female cone which is a globe shaped yellow structure in which scalelike leaves cover bright orange seeds ... interest in both the landscape and indoors. The glossy metallic leaves are harvested and preserved by the Japanese who export ... where it is consumed. WARNING Animals that graze on Cycas leaves may exhibit permanent nuerological disorders. Cycas seed is sometimes ...
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Floridata: Casuarina equisetifolia
... a little like jointed rushes and are ringed at their nodes by tightly overlapping little scalelike leaves. The stout trunk is covered with thick pebbly textured brownish grey bark. The tree is ...
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Floridata: Abies concolor
... the landscape millions of years ago. Most conifers are needle-leaf evergreens (a few have scalelike leaves and a few are deciduous. (The term "conifer" does not quite coincide with the botanical ...
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Floridata: Chamaecyparis obtusa
... attractive soft and stringy reddish brown bark, and drooping flat frondlike branchlets bearing small scalelike leaves. The main branches are dense and spreading and may droop to the ground, and ... of leaves: adult leaves are like closely adpressed overlapping scales; leaves on juvenile branchlets and young plants don't overlap and are shaped more like tiny awls or broad needles. The scalelike leaves ...
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Floridata: Chamaecyparis pisifera
... rather than flat sprays; the scalelike leaves stand out at 45 degree angles from the twigs. The Squarosa group (moss false cypresses) of cultivars have soft needlelike leaves that stand way out from the twigs and create a mossy appearance; they never develop the adult scalelike leaves and the foliage is soft and fluffy ...
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Floridata: Taxodium distichum
... leaves, whereas pond-cypress (T. ascendens) has awl shaped or scalelike leaves. The leaves of bald-cypress spread out on the branches, but those of pond-cypress are closely adpressed to the branches. The leaves ... southeastern Louisiana. Culture Bald-cypress likes an acidic soil and will develop yellowing of the leaves if grown in neutral or calcareous soils. Young trees grow rapidly, but they can ...
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Floridata: Taxodium ascendens
... distinct species. Pond-cypress has awl shaped or scalelike leaves which are closely appressed and overlapping on the twigs, whereas bald-cypress has linear leaves which spread out and are arranged in two ... tell apart. Hybridization probably occurs, and young, fast growing specimens of pond-cypress sometimes have leaves more like those of bald-cypress. Pond-cypress is generally a smaller tree, to 80 ...
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Floridata: Araucaria heterophylla
... soft looking and light green. Leaves on young trees are narrowly wedge-shaped, about 0.5 in (1.3 cm) long; on mature trees the leaves are scalelike and overlapping, about o.25 ... require staking). Light: Full sun. Will tolerate shade but the leaves will droop - the deeper the shade, the droopier the leaves (which I think makes for especially graceful specimens!) When growing indoors ...
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Floridata: Sequoia sempervirens
... are creamy white when young; 'Pendula' with drooping branches; 'Simpson's Silver' with silvery blue leaves; and 'Filoli' with very blue foliage. The tallest California redwood still standing is 359 ft ... of its relative the baldcypress tree and another on the tips and flowering shoots are scalelike and overlapping. Location California redwood grows in isolated stands from sea level to about 3000 ...
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