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Trees

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a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting leaves or branches.• include the taller palms, the

tree ferns, bananas and bamboo

What is a tree?

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Facts about trees

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Coniferous Trees AND Deciduous Trees

2 sample kinds of trees

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Trees grow from seeds. They develop into tall woody plants. These produce flowers with male and female parts. Pollen from the male flower fertilizes the female flower and seeds are formed. These are shed from the tree and new trees grow from them.

Life Cycle of a TREE

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Since the beginning, trees have furnished us with two of life's essentials, food and oxygen. As we evolved, they provided additional necessities such as shelter, medicine, and tools. Today, their value continues to increase and more benefits of trees are being discovered as their role expands to satisfy the needs created by our modern lifestyles.

IMPORTANCE

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As of today, more and more trees were used for such businesses, infrastructures and establishments. Thus decreasing the number of trees and causes more pollutions, floods and such other mother earth calamities due to the fact that there was not enough number of trees already holding and supporting the land. So some of the concern citizens and institutions fight for the illegal cutting of trees and for the decreasing number of it.

AS OF TODAY

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Coniferous trees are usually defined as any tree that produces a cone. Common coniferous trees are pines, firs, hemlocks, and spruces. Shrubs can also be considered coniferous, and they are usually a version of the above trees, but in shrub form. Coniferous trees are also referred to as softwood trees. This is because their wood is not as durable as hardwoods, such as maple, oak, and birch. Hardwoods are also deciduous while coniferous trees are usually, but not always, evergreen. An example of a deciduous coniferous tree is the european larch. It has needles, but drops them every fall.

Coniferous Trees

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A deciduous tree is a tree that sheds off its leaves in the drier part of the year and bears new fresh leaves in the wet season. The tree does this in order to conserve water for other important physiological functions. The opposite of a deciduous tree is an annual or evergreen tree which bears leaves all year round.

Deciduous Trees

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Summary

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