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Identify and Name 100 Common Trees of the North American Forest
... Identify trees variously known as Angiosperms, broadleafs, deciduous and hardwoods. Identify those trees with leaves that are broad, flat and thin and generally shed annually. Identify those trees ... trees variously known as gymnosperms, conifers, evergreens and softwoods. Identify trees with needles or scalelike leaves and cones which normally (but not always) keep foliage or needles through the ...
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Identification of the Conifers
... - A tree belonging to the order Coniferales. Trees with needles or scalelike leaves and cones as opposed to broad, flat leaves that more often than not are coneless. EVERGREEN - perennial plants ... entire year. SOFTWOOD - Softwood trees are usually evergreen, bear cones, and have needles or scalelike leaves. They include pine, spruces, firs, and cedars. Wood hardness varies among the conifer species, ...
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The Gardener's Net : Arborvitae Trees
... , Arborvitae are native to eastern Asia and North America. They are identified by their small, scalelike leaves on flattened branches. There are many varieties, with the largest growing over 40 feet. Among ... from providing some winter protection against damage from ice and snow. Did you know? Arborvitae leaves were once used as a remedy for Rheumatism. How to Grow Arborvitae: Arborvitae are easy ...
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Azolla and Anaebaena Symbiosis
... and A. caroliniana. Individual Azolla plants have slender, branched stems with minute, overlapping scalelike leaves only one millimeter long. Each plant resembles a little floating moss with ... are produced inside each microsporangium. Close-up view of Azolla filiculoides showing scalelike, overlapping leaves and several globose reproductive structures called sporocarps. The male sporocarp (middle ...
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Pruning Broadleaf Evergreen Shrubs
... is somewhat misleading since it includes evergreen shrubs with large leaves such as aucuba, but also includes evergreens with small leaves such as boxwood, Japanese hollies, and pyracantha. The term broadleaf is used to include all evergreens except conifers which have needle or scalelike leaves. Most broadleaf ...
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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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