broadleaf forest
Oak-maple tree zone
A broadleaf forest is woodland dominated by trees with wide, flat leaves rather than needles—oaks, maples, beeches, and their relatives.
Most broadleaf trees are deciduous, shedding leaves seasonally, though some tropical broadleaf forests remain evergreen year-round.
The term contrasts with coniferous or needle-leaf forests: The trail passed from dense broadleaf forest into open pine woods.
- deciduousSheds foliage seasonally
- tree canopyUpper forest layer
- canopyOverhead protective covering
- oakQuercus genus member
- mapleSap-yielding hardwood tree
beech · understory · ferns · moss · shade · birch · towering trees · old growth · hickory · woodland · temperate · autumn · fall colors · foliage · humus · mushrooms · dappled · elm
- forestswoods, pine trees, maple trees, spruce trees, grove
- biomesdesert, grassland, jungle, tundra, taiga
- temperate zonestemperate zones, temperate zone, midlatitudes, mild weather, moderate temperatures
- rainforest plantsbamboo, palm, fern, orchid, vine
broadleaf forestconiferous forest
Woodland of cone-producing trees
pine forest · conifer forest · evergreen forest · boreal forest · spruce forest
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