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

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

After their emergence around 140 million years ago, angiosperms quickly flourished, surpassing the flowerless gymnosperms as ...

This has proved to be an enormously successful strategy. There are more than 250,000 species of angiosperms, versus around 1,000 gymnosperms. Virtually all of our plant crops are angiosperms. Many ...

Gymnosperm means “naked seed” and comes from the same Greek root as gymnastics, which means to exercise naked. This group of plants is so named because the seeds are not enclosed inside an ovary, ...

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 ...

Angiosperms produce flowers and fruits ... including flowering plants, gymnosperms (a group of plants, which include conifers and Ginkgo) and ferns. They then compared genome size with anatomical ...

"Why isn't there a gradual evolution of the angiosperms? Why can't we see intermediate forms between the gymnosperms - things like conifers - and the flowering plants? And why, when they appear ...

mostly from angiosperm plants such as laurels, moonseeds, relatives of cacao and others, with very few conifers, which are technically known as gymnosperms. Most of the leaves were large and had ...

General Herbarium I: Gymnosperms, 'basal' angiosperms, the monocotyledons, and non-core eudicotyledons. General Herbarium II: Fabids. General Herbarium III: Malvids and the superasterids, except for ...

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 ...