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, ...

Kirsten K. Coe is a plant ecophysiologist, focusing on how environmental stress shapes plant performance and growth, and in turn how plant responses influence ecosystem level processes. She uses ...

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 ...

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 ...

When we think of climate change we often think of extreme events like flooding rains and large bushfires. But climate change can also have slower, more subtle impacts on our landscapes.

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You’re missing out if you don’t have shrubs around your home. Shrubs can add color, fragrance, and even protection from unwanted attention. Here are 15 ideas for landscaping with shrubs to ...