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with needles or scales that are . . . 🌲︎ there nowevergreen or growing season 🍃︎ now gonedeciduous, dormant season :
with needles or scales that are . . . long (1-45 cm) (½-18 in) or short (<1 cm) (<½ in) or long (if mature) or short (if young), splay left + right + up + down + all angles, branches=widely spacedaraucaria genus Araucaria :
singlyfirs spruces hemlock
in bundles of 2-5pines genus Pinus in tufts of 6+, 🍃︎ deciduouslarches genus Larix
soft spikes in new growth and overlapping scales in old growth or
overlapping scales, some sharp and prickly, from North America or
overlapping scales, branch ends splay flat as if ironed or overlapping scales, branch ends splay in any direction :
bark=light shreddy; if present, fruit=juicy, smaller than little fingernailjunipers genus Juniperus
east of 🗻︎ Rocky Mountainseastern red cedar Juniperus virginiana west of 🗻︎ Rocky Mountains, looks wiltedAlaska yellow cedar Cupressus nootkatensis
twig ends look jointedincense cedar Calocedrus decurrens foliage=fragrant and glossy; cones=oblong, leatherywestern redcedar Thuja plicata cones=spherical; can rub white off foliagePort Orford cedar Chamaecyparis lawsoniana in swamp or area of limestonenorthern white cedar / eastern arborvitae Thuja occidentalis
overlapping narrow scalesAtlantic white cedar Chamaecyparis thyoides needles=awl-shape, arranged=spiralgiant sequoia Sequoiadendron giganteum
fruit=woody round (≥1 cm) (≥½ in)cypress genus Cupressus fruit=fleshy berry-like (<1 cm) (<½ in)junipers genus Juniperus
Conifers (together with ginkgo Ginkgo biloba , cycads order Cycadales and a few more), have 'naked' seeds (gymnosperm), by not enclosing its seeds with any ovary structure.
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🌳︎🌲︎🌵︎🍁︎❧ terrestrial woody plants 🌳︎🍁︎ broadleaves, a month or more after most other deciduous plants lost their leaves, dormant season ginkgo Ginkgo biloba