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2. Conifer cone - Wikipedia

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   A conifer cone, or in formal botanical usage a strobilus, pl.: strobili, is a seed-bearing organ on gymnosperm plants, especially in conifers and cycads. They are usually woody and variously conic, cylindrical, ovoid, to globular, and have scales and bracts arranged around a central axis, but can be fleshy and berry -like.

3. Pinaceae - Wikipedia

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   The Pinaceae (/ p ɪ ˈ n eɪ s iː ˌ iː,-s i ˌ aɪ /), or pine family, are conifer trees or shrubs, including many of the well-known conifers of commercial importance such as cedars, firs, hemlocks, piñons, larches, pines and spruces. The family is included in the order Pinales, formerly known as Coniferales.

4. Conifer - Wikipedia

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   Most conifers are monoecious, but some are subdioecious or dioecious; all are wind-pollinated. Conifer seeds develop inside a protective cone called a strobilus. The cones take from four months to three years to reach maturity, and vary in size from 2 to 600 millimetres (1 ⁄ 8 to 23 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) long.

5. Strobilus - Wikipedia

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   A strobilus (pl.: strobili) is a structure present on many land plant species consisting of sporangia-bearing structures densely aggregated along a stem.Strobili are often called cones, but some botanists restrict the use of the term cone to the woody seed strobili of conifers.

6. Coulter pine - Wikipedia

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   Coulter pine (Pinus coulteri), or big-cone pine, is a conifer in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae.Coulter pine is an evergreen conifer that lives up to 100 years. [2] It is a native of the coastal mountains of Southern California in the United States and northern Baja California in Mexico, occurring in mediterranean climates, where winter rains are infrequent and summers are dry with ...

7. Athrotaxis cupressoides - Wikipedia

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   The spiral leaf arrangement. Athrotaxis cupressoides is an endemic native to Tasmania, Australia. Its distribution is primarily in the central and western mountain areas between 700 and 1300 m above sea level, often around tarns or damp depressions on peaty or wet rocky soils.

8. Chamaecyparis lawsoniana - Wikipedia

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   Chamaecyparis lawsoniana, known as Port Orford cedar [2] or Lawson's cypress, [3] is a species of conifer in the genus Chamaecyparis, family Cupressaceae. It is native to Oregon and northwestern California , and grows from sea level up to 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) in the valleys of the Klamath Mountains , often along streams.

9. American Conifer Society - Wikipedia

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   The American Conifer Society was founded in 1983 [1] to help educate the public about conifers, which are cone-bearing plants. [2] The Society is governed by a board of directors with representation from each of the Society's four regions.