conifers

Trees with cones

Conifers are cone-bearing trees and shrubs—pines, spruces, firs, cedars, and their relatives.

Most are evergreen with needle-like or scale-like leaves, though a few like larches shed their needles seasonally.

Conifers dominate cold and mountainous regions and include some of the world's oldest and tallest trees.

The forest was thick with conifers.

species

spruce

Neat; also a conifer

  • firCone-bearing evergreen genus
  • pineCone-bearing evergreen
  • cedarDurable, fragrant conifer

cypress · juniper · yew · hemlock · redwood · sequoia · larch · arborvitae · tamarack · kauri

botany

gymnosperm

Exposed-seed plant

softwood · evergreen · resinous · conical · monophyletic · phylogeny · stomata · whorled · fascicle · woody

forest

taiga

Subarctic evergreen biome

canopy · understory · old-growth · temperate · montane · silviculture · timberline · tree line · plantation · stand

resin

sap

Plant circulatory fluid

aromatic · sticky · balsam · rosin · exudate · frankincense · varnish · lacquer · terpenes · oleoresin

uses

lumber

Sawn wood for building

construction · furniture · Christmas tree · wreath · decking · fencing · plywood · woodworking · sawmill · carpentry

ecology

habitat

Organism's natural environment

nutcrackers · owls · acidic soil · mycorrhizae · fire-adapted · seed dispersal · carbon sink · watershed · erosion control · biodiversity

Categories
Opposites
leaf retention

conifersdeciduous trees

Plants shedding leaves annually

maples · oaks · elms · beeches · birches

botanical classification

conifersangiosperms

Plants producing covered seeds

flowering plants · hardwoods · flowering trees · fruit trees · magnolias

wood type

conifershardwoods

Dense deciduous lumber types

hardwood trees · oak · maple · walnut · mahogany

Phrases
Family

conifer, coniferous

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G