The dark foliage of conifer trees dominates much of our landscape. It gets to be a bit overwhelming at times, so I’m always glad when spring leaf-out brings fresh, bright greens of the deciduous ...

In similar fashion of these deciduous trees, the leaves are not just dropped. They go out with bright yellow-golds emanating from the numerous swamp and bogs that we have in the region.

One such deciduous conifer is Taxodium distichum, the bald cypress. Bald cypress is a southeastern native species, commonly found growing in swamps, marshes, along streambanks and in riverbeds.

Most conifers are evergreen trees, but a few are deciduous. Pines have needles that are bundled together at their base by a papery sheath called a fascicle. Needles are typically in bundles of 2, 3, ...

Wildfires could permanently alter Alaska's forest composition Berkeley Lab study finds evergreen conifer trees will decline and deciduous broadleaf trees dominate in a warmer climate with more ...

No luck. Hiking on, I enter a stand of older larch trees that tower above me. The lowest branches on mature larches are often 50 to 75 feet above the ground. These trees are easily 150 feet tall.

Case in point, the Larch tree — a deciduous conifer that sheds its needles every fall and grows them back in the spring. Larch trees really aren’t evergreen, but they do have needles and seeds ...

“We confirmed that fires clearly shift forests from conifer to deciduous cover, but when we look at those changes over many decades, we find deciduous trees begin to be replaced again by conifer trees ...

Using a well-tested ecosystem model called ecosys, they predicted that by the year 2100 the relative dominance of evergreen conifer trees (black spruce) will decline by 25% and non-woody ...

To be able to harvest deciduous fruit here in Brevard County, you will need to select a “low chill” cultivar that only requires 150 chilling hours. Take for example Red Delicious apples, which ...