Before flowering plants emerged, the gymnosperms, which have cone-like structures instead of flowers, dominated the plant ...

Spruces do not retain their needles for long, the needles are quite sharp, and the needles are not aromatic like those of ...

This past November, an Alaskan trucker drove a long bed carrying an 80-foot Sitka spruce to the West Lawn of the White House, ...

Recent workers have confirmed this for Lycopodium 1, and a number of Gymnosperms 2,3,4,5. The above case shows that even in the Angiosperms, and even at the extreme apex in these, periclinal ...

During the Mesozoic era (around 252 to 66 million years ago) two events led to major changes in how insects and plants interacted. Firstly, flowering plants began to replace gymnosperms – plants whose ...

Such specimens have generally been classed together as “Gymnosperms,” so that they have received little attention from palæobotanists. As I am undertaking an exhaustive study of the ...