Deciduous and coniferous trees vary in many more ways than only leaf types. Learn these differences and you'll know which ...

The boreal forest is dominated by coniferous trees that are very well adapted to these conditions. Conifers are evolutionarily older than broad-leaved deciduous trees.

Conifers are evolutionarily older than broad-leaved deciduous trees. They evolved under much more inhospitable conditions and so are better adapted to thin, nutrient-poor soils than their ...

The deciduous (leafy) trees consisted of aspen, cherry, rowan, beech, oak, walnut and birch, while the coniferous (needle-bearing) trees consisted of larch, spruce, fir and black pine.

Workarounds: While deciduous trees shed their leaves in late fall, eliminating most of the trees’ need for water, conifers keep the majority of their leaves (or needles) throughout the cold ...

Young deciduous and coniferous trees, big and small, are slowly being planted throughout Vancouver. A recent assessment of the city’s urban forest found that it is making incremental ...

Workarounds: Both deciduous and coniferous trees concentrate sugars within their cells as autumn advances. This does three things: The contents of the cells become viscous ...

These trees are conifers that lose all of their foliage each winter, thus are in the very unique category of deciduous conifers. Is my conifer pine, spruce or fir?

Let’s cover some basic conifer identification and some principles of selection for your landscape. A conifer is a cone-bearing plant. Cones come in many shapes and sizes, and not every cone resembles ...

Conifers, such as pines, firs, spruces and junipers, are about the only trees that keep their foliage during the winter in the northern United States. These trees produce scale-like leaves or ...