features Flashcards
Ginko
deciduous, obdeltoid, thick shoots with short shoots, mature large seeds that are plum like
foulsmell when overripe
Pacific Yew
fruit like sticky
leaves: prom midvein, needlelike, revolute with convex lower surface
seed: bluish seed set in bright red cup
Monkey puzzle
Leaves: triangle base
seedcone: globular, held erect, surorounded by and attatched to conescales
Umbrella-pine
rubbery leaves, grooved on both sides, whorled in clusters of 10-15
seedcones: oblong, 8-12cm, fam shaped, loosley attatched
Yellow-cedar
droopy crown,
leaves: all 4 rows similar, ad smell upon crushing
Seedcones: globular, 4-6 mushroom/chickpea woody scales
Western redcedar
Leaves: in 4 rows along twig,both needle and scale leaves
seadcones: ovoid, 8-10 cone scales
Twigs: sitffer than yellowcedar, no vegitative buds
Rocky mountain juniper
leaces: 5-12mm long, shine dark green
Seedcones: berry-like, fleshy, bright to dark blue
Common juniper
spikey
leaves: no scale leaves, needles 12-20mm, sharp
seedcones: berry-like, fleshy, bluish-black
Incense Cedar
Leaves: 3-12mm, whorled in 4s, side leaves folded, up and low are flattened,
seedcones: 6 scales, 2 becoming enlarged and spread at maturity
Twigs: flattened, droppng sprays
Japenese-cedar
Leaves: Awl shaped, tips curve inward
Seedcones: globular, 12-18mm, 20-30 scales at teeth tip
Chinese-fir
Leaves: 4-6cm long, lanceolate and sharp, bright green and glossy above
Seecones:wooden roses
Dawn redwood
DISTINCTIVLY BUTRESSED
leaves: decidious branchlets, 30mm long, 2-ranked, opposite
Twigs: opposit in 2 ranks
Seedcones: square, 20-25mm, scales opposite pairs
Coast redwood
Seedcones: globular, 2-3cm, wrinkled on outside, 14-20 scales
less concave under leaf than yew
Sierria rewood
scale-like (3-5mm), or awl or lance shaped (12mm), Lance shaped leaves diverge from twigs=rigid, sharp
Seedcones: ovoid-obling, 5-10cm, 24-40 scales wrinkled and pitted
BIG EGG
Bald-cypress
Leaves: needle-like, flat, sharp, spiral but appear in 2 ranks, deciduous
Seedcones: globular and somewhat irregular
Whitebark pine
leaves: in 5s, stout and stiff, no teeth
twigs: smootha nd gray
seedcoens: closed, globular to ovoid, 5-8cm long, stalkless, scales thick, tough, open slighlty when mature, 1 large wingless seed
Limber pine
leaves: 5’s, 4-9 cm, stout and stiff, not teeth
seedcones: cylyndrical to narrowly ovoid, 8-20cm, scales thick at tip, spoonshaped, cones open on tree (1 wingless seed)
Sugar pine
5’s, 5-10cm, fine, toothed
seedcones:BIGGEST, 25-65 cm long
Western white pne
5’s, 5-1cm, fine, toothed
Seedcones: Cylyndrical, 10-30cm long, yellowish to green to light brown
Eastern white pine
5’s, 5-15cm, fine, toothed
seedcones: slender, 8-20cm, narrower than wester white pine