Identifying the conifer trees most common to North America requires a close investigation of their needles, leaves, fruit, and flowers.

Evergreen conifers may also have foliage borne off the twig in the form of scaly leaves. These are cedars and junipers . Cedar leaves grow on flattened sprays or all around the twig.

Come along as we look through real examples of shape, scales, leaf and branches of various local trees. The featured species include Eastern red cedarwood, Northern white cedar, and more. If you have ...

Conifers don’t complete an annual shed like deciduous trees, but a portion of their oldest needles do drop each year. How long each needle holds on is particular to the species, ranging from two ...

Conifer leaves usually have a thick waxy coating that also helps reduce water loss. The pores through which a leaf exchanges gases and water “are sunken deep inside the underside of the needles where ...

In various species of juniper, notably in the Chinese juniper, two forms of leaf representing the juvenile and the adult condition occur together on the same branch. Nature - Dimorphic Leaves of ...

It includes leaf hoppers, aphids and cicadas. It’s any bug that has four wings and a piercing mouthpart rather than a chewing mouthpart. ... Western conifer seed bugs ...