Conifers' helicoptering seeds are result of long evolutionary experiment Date: March 17, 2015 Source: University of California - Berkeley Summary: Whirling seeds are produced by many plants today ...

This combination is especially dangerous to evergreen plants, such as conifers. The chlorophyll pigment-proteins in their needles absorbs light, but the enzyme activity, stopped by the cold ...

If you want to minimise the amount of noise in an urban environment it's better to plant conifers than broadleaved trees, scientists claim. Researchers from University College London studied the ...

The choice of conifers available is huge, ranging from yew trees (Taxus baccata), which make the best hedges because they are slow-growing, to miniatures such as Hudson fir (Abies balsamea 'Nana ...

SEATTLE — Gardening expert Ciscoe Morris said pruning dwarf conifers can be tricky in the Evergreen State because they never stop growing here. He demonstrated on his Hinoki cypress spiralis.

THIS seems the most striking of several war-time papers by Florin on the conifers. Here he describes three kinds of conifer shoots: two previously known as Sequoia are shown to agree in form and ...

During the Cretaceous period, the trees commonly dominating a wide range of Earth's terrestrial environments were conifers—similar to the pines, spruces, cypresses and cedars that populate the ...