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woody plant with an erect perennial trunk at least 3 inches in diameter
and a total height of at least 13 feet at maturity with a definitely formed crown of foliage. |
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| Pyramidal, conical, columnar, spreading, vase-shaped, broad, rounded. |
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| Can be needle-shaped, scale-shaped, or broad and flat. |
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Simple or compound.
Arranged in an opposite, alternate, or whorled pattern. |
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| Linear (grass-shaped), Lanceolate (lance-shaped), Oblanceolate(Reverse lance shaped), Round, Ovate (egg shaped), Obovate (Reverse egg shaped), oblong, Elliptical (oval), Spatulate (spoon-shaped) |
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| Without teeth or toothed. Can be wavy, turned under, or deeply divided into parts or lobes. |
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| Contain sepals, petals, and stamens or pistals. |
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| Usually green and leaf-like |
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| Female reproductive system |
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| Most are bisexual, but some are only one sex. The two sexes can appear on separate trees or on different locations of the same tree. |
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| leaves can be needle-shaped, scale-shaped, or broad and flat. |
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| Dry or fleshy. If it develops from several pistols, it is an aggregate. |
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| spruces, firs, pines, tamarack, paper birch, quaking aspen |
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| hemlock, redwood, Douglas fir, western red cedar |
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| ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, Engleman spruce, Douglas fir. |
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| Northeastern Deciduous Forests |
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| eastern hemlock, American beech, red oak, basswood, sugar maple beech, maples |
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| tuliptree, sycamore, shagbark hickory, white oak, Ohio buckeye |
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Loblolly pine, shortleaf pine, longleaf pine, mockernut hickory,
live oak. |
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| red mangrove, black mangrove, cabbage palmetto |
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| desert, grassland, tundra |
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| *Tree Growth Requirements |
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trees belonging to the same group or family may have different growth requirements as temperature, moisture, and soil types. Some grow in pure
stands but many grow in association with other species of trees. |
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| *Environmental Impact of trees |
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their role in the stability of their ecosystems.
Things they provide and problems created by misuse and natural factors as forest fires. |
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| *Interspecies Relationship |
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relationship with other trees and plants and the animals within their ecosystem. Some animals are very specific about the type of tree
they require within their ecosystem. |
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| *Role within their ecosystems |
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| Place within the food chains and food webs of their ecosystems. |
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