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The Jean Iseli Memorial Grant provides a $4,000 annual grant to a public garden or arboretum that has demonstrated its support of the development, conservation and propagation of conifers. The Society makes annual Reference Garden Grants to assist with development of conifer collections and has begun making Conservation and Research Grants.
Giant sequoia. Silvics of North America (1991), [1] a forest inventory compiled and published by the United States Forest Service, includes many conifers. [a] It superseded Silvics of Forest Trees of the United States (1965), which was the first extensive American tree inventory. [3]
Side of Upton Sinclair House. The Upton Sinclair House is an historic house at 464 N. Myrtle Avenue, Monrovia, California.Built in 1923, it was the home of American novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) between 1942 and 1966, and is where he wrote many of his later works.
Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms.Scientifically, they make up the division Pinophyta (/ p ɪ ˈ n ɒ f ɪ t ə, ˈ p aɪ n oʊ f aɪ t ə /), also known as Coniferophyta (/ ˌ k ɒ n ɪ f ə ˈ r ɒ f ɪ t ə,-oʊ f aɪ t ə /) or Coniferae.
Coast Douglas-fir is the fourth tallest conifer and fifth tallest of all trees in the world (after sitka spruce).Currently, coast Douglas-fir trees 60–75 metres (197–246 ft) or more in height and 1.5–2 metres (4.9–6.6 ft) in diameter are common in old growth stands, [4] and maximum heights of 100–120 metres (330–390 ft) and diameters up to 4.5–5.5 metres (15–18 ft) have been ...
The conifers, division Pinophyta, are one of 13 or 14 division level taxa within the Kingdom Plantae. They are cone -bearing seed plants with vascular tissue; all extant conifers are woody plants , the great majority being trees with just a few being shrubs .
The deep shade cast by redwoods often results in a sparse understory, but shade-tolerant species include thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus), redwood sorrel (Oxalis oregana), elk clover (Aralia californica), dwarf Oregon grape (Mahonia nervosa), salal (Gaultheria shallon), and many ferns, such as deer fern (Blechnum spicant), sword fern ...
Cryptomeria (literally "hidden parts") is a monotypic genus of conifer in the cypress family Cupressaceae.It includes only one species, Cryptomeria japonica (syn. Cupressus japonica L.f.).