What is a coniferous tree?
968069
CONIFERS - "Conifer" is derived from Latin meaning "to bear cones".   Cones are sort of like a flower. One way of identifying a conifer is to look at the leaves - neeedles or scale-like. Conifers are usually evergreen trees or shrubs with linear, needle-like or scale-like leaves, though some, like larch or tamarack, drop their leaves (deciduous) in autumn. Among the conifers are some of the smallest, largest and oldest living woody plants known. \n\nexamples includes:\n\nCOLORADO SPRUCE\nMOUNTAIN PINE\nWESTERN RED CEDAR\netc... most evergreen trees.
50504
Advanced is a relative term.  In terms of evolutionary history, the deciduous is newer and the conifer is older.  If you're teacher wants you to call one more "advanced," then the answer he/she is looking for is deciduous, but you tell him/her that Professor Beatz has a bone to pick with their thinking of newer adaptations as being necessarily more "advanced."  Conifers are still well adapted to their environments, they continue to thrive, and every species on the earth has the same number of years of evolutionary history behind its adaptations.
670235
Pine trees! Of course I love these trees, I'm from the Pine Tree State!\nMaples are also beautiful in the fall (and they're good climbing trees). Plus you get syrup from maples.\nFir and spruce trees are awesome because they smell like Christmas.\nApple trees are pretty in the spring, and they produce apples, of course (well...some do. We have a bunch of ancient apple trees at my house, and the apples are too small and green to eat, but they're fun to hit with golf clubs, and if you flick one off a sharp stick it will fly forver).\nI also love hemlocks. If you walk in the woods and come across a stand of hemlocks, it's really cool because they block out the sun and create a whole other world.
210473
Dypterix panamensis is the Almendro Tree\n\nTry checking the spelling on the other one.
9696
You can see some nice picures of pine needles here:\nhttp://www.metla.fi/eu/icp/phenology/pine.htm\n\nActually your question is kind of unclear, and it may mean that you are looking for the evergreen trees like pines, in which case I think you mean conifers:\nhttp://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=conifers&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&fl=0&x=wrt
112086
Oddly enough both the first two answers are correct.\n\nThe tallest individual tree in the world is a Rdewood/sequioa.\n\nThe tallest tree species in the world is mountain ash. \n\nThe reason for the discrepancy is that they discovered the tallest mountain ash by measuringit as it lay on the gorund. They had just cut down the tallest tree in the world.\n\nSo although Mountain Ash grow slightly taller than redwood there is no living mountain ash that is taller than the tallest living redwood.
1119360
Tallest Tree\nAccording to the researches of Dr A.C. Carder, the tallest tree ever measured was an Australian Eucalyptus regnans at Watts River, Victoria, Australia, reported in 1872 by forester William Ferguson. It was 132.6 m (435 ft) tall and almost certainly measured over 150 m (500 ft) originally. \nAnother Eucalyptus at Mt Baw Baw, Victoria, Australia, is believed to have measured 143 m (470 ft) in 1885. \n\nThe Dyerville Giant, a coast redwood, estimated to be 1,600 years old when it fell in March 1991, was proven to be 113.4 m (372 ft) high, not counting the 1.5 m (5 ft) of buried base. It grew in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California, USA and was the tallest tree of modern times.\n\nTallest Living Tree\nThe world's tallest living tree is the Stratosphere Giant measuring 112.7 m (370 ft) as of July 2004. This coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) was discovered by Chris Atkins (USA) in August 2000 in the Rockefeller Forest of the Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California, USA. \nThe precise location of the giant tree is always kept secret by the Park Rangers in case enthusiastic tree fans accidentally damage its fragile environment. The second tallest tree living, known as The Federation Giant, measures 112 m (368 ft) and also lives at the Humboldt Redwoods State Park
1153104
temperate or deciduous forest- forest or mountain environment
250536
Some woods spark because they have other components in them.  Its not natural of course, but things get put in the wood by birds or bugs, as well as the components of the earth the tree grows in.
409069
A bonsai tree can be made almost of every tree species. Usually it's the "needle" trees that get cut into bonsai. \n\nWhat makes a bonsai is the technique of slowly growing and cutting them, not the sort of the plant.
279509
The trees of Huangshan, China are famous for their beauty. You'll notice that many of the trees growing naturally on the mountainsides look like bonsai -- perhaps they were the original inspiration for bonsai styling.
295355
Taiga (IPA pronunciation: /'taɪgə/, from the Russian тайга́) is a biome characterized by coniferous forests. Covering most of inland Canada, northern Russia, and Siberia, the taiga is the world's largest terrestrial biome and one of the major sources of oxygen. In Canada, boreal forest is the term used to refer to the southern part of this biome, while taiga is used to describe the more barren northern areas south of the Arctic tree-line.\n\nSince North America and Eurasia were recently connected by the Bering land bridge, a number of animal and plant species (more animals than plants) were able to colonise both continents and are distributed throughout the taiga biome. Others differ regionally, typically with each genus having several distinct species each occupying different regions of the taiga.\n\nClimate and geography\nThe taiga biome has a harsh continental climate with a very large temperature range between summer and winter, classified as "Dfc" or "Dfb" in the Köppen climate classification scheme. Aside from the tundra and permanent ice caps, it is the coldest biome on Earth. High latitudes mean that for much of the year the Sun hovers at the horizon; winters last at least 6 months, with average temperatures below freezing. Temperatures vary from -50 ˚C to 30 ˚C throughout the whole year, with 8 or more months of temperatures averging below 10 ˚C. The summers, while short, are generally warm and humid.\n\nThe taiga experiences relatively low precipitation throughout the year (200-750 mm annually), primarily as rain during the summer but also as fog and snow, but as evaporation is also low for most of the year, precipitation exceeds evaporation and is sufficient for dense vegetation growth.\n\nMuch of the area currently classified as taiga was recently glaciated. As the glaciers receded, they gouged out depressions in the topography. These depressions have since filled with water, creating lakes and bogs (especially muskeg soil) that can be found throughout the taiga.\n\nSoil of taiga is very acidic. When needles fallen from conifers decompose, they secrete an acid which prevents plants other than conifers from growing there. This process, termed allelopathy, also occurs where evergreen trees are planted in other biomes, such as temperate broadleaf and mixed forests, slowing the rate at which the area returns to its natural state. The soil is called podsol.\n\nTaiga biomes are not found in the Southern Hemisphere because there is little landmass at the characteristic latitudes, with little similarity even in the Magellanic subpolar forests of Chile and Argentina, where the climate is strongly oceanic.\n\nFlora\nThe forests of the taiga are largely coniferous, dominated by larch, spruce, and pine. Evergreen species in the taiga (spruce and pine) have a number of adaptations specifically for survival in harsh taiga winters, though larch, the most cold-tolerant of all trees, is deciduous. Because the Sun is low in the horizon for most of the year, it is difficult for plants to generate energy from photosynthesis. Pine and spruce do not lose their leaves seasonally and are able to photosynthesize with their older leaves in late winter and spring when light is good but temperatures are still too low for new growth to commence. The adaptation of evergreen needles limits the water lost due to transpiration and their dark green color increases their absorption of sunlight. Although precipitation is not a limiting factor, the ground freezes during the winter months and plant roots are unable to absorb water, so desiccation can be a severe problem in late winter for evergreens.\n\nAlthough the taiga is dominated by coniferous forests, some broadleaf trees also occur, notably birch, aspen, willow, and rowan. Many smaller herbaceous plants grow closer to the ground. Periodic stand-replacing wildfires (with return times of between 20-200 years) clear out the tree canopies, allowing sunlight to
245275
Green is probably the answer you're looking for.  The color reflected by the leaf is the color not used for photosynthesis.  This is true year-around for most conifer trees (those with needles), however, for decidious trees (usually those with leaves) actually may use green during the fall (during the time when the leaves are changing color).
424850
short grasses, long grasses, deciduous trees, coniferous trees, weeds
439849
Plants/Trees in Appalachian Mountains\n\nSpruce, common name for a genus of about 40 species of coniferous trees, indigenous to the northern hemisphere, nearly half being natives of North America. The genus, of the pine family, was formerly combined with a fir genus, from which it differs in having pendulous cones, persistent woody leaf-bases, and four-angled leaves, scattered and pointing in every direction. Spruces occur farther north than most trees, forming forests within the Arctic Circle, and extending south, especially in the mountains, as far as the Pyrenees in Europe and the Himalayas in Asia; in the United States, spruces occur as far south as North Carolina and Arizona. The white spruce and black spruce cover extensive areas in Canada, almost to the total exclusion of other trees. In Europe the Norway spruce is similarly distributed; the timber is valuable for fuel and for house building and is exported from Norway and Sweden for masts and spars of sailing vessels.\n\nIn North America the prevailing species over the greatest extent of territory are the white spruce and the black spruce, although in lumbering the two species are seldom distinguished. The former is found from New York to British Columbia and northward to Newfoundland and Labrador, Hudson Bay, and Alaska. The white wood is light in weight, soft, compact, nearly odorless, and with scarcely distinguishable sapwood. It is used for general building purposes and also yields some of the spruce gum of commerce.\n\nThe black spruce has a distribution somewhat similar to that of the white, except that it descends along the mountains to Virginia. It is a somewhat smaller tree, but otherwise similar to the white spruce. It forms immense forests in Maine, New York, Canada, and elsewhere and is used largely for wood pulp and paper. A third species, the red spruce, a valuable timber tree, is limited essentially to New England but is also found along the Appalachians as far south as Georgia.
147481
Pine, common name for a family of coniferous trees, mostly evergreen, of widespread distribution in the temperate areas of the Northern hemisphere, and for its representative genus. The family, which contains 194 species in 9 genera, has enormous economic importance as a source of timber and wood pulp, among other products. Members of the family characteristically have spirally arranged, needle-shaped leaves. In several genera—for example, cedar and larch—the leaves are mostly borne in clusters or rosettes on short branches, or spurs.\n\nThe members of the pine family have separate female and male cones; the former produce the seeds, and the latter the pollen. Male and female cones are produced on the same plant; the seed-bearing cones are woody when mature; the seeds are winged. The family is distinguished from other conifers on the basis of its seed cones. Each of the flattened scales on which the seeds are borne is underlain by a distinct, sterile bract (reduced leaf) that may be shorter than and hidden by the scale, or may have a protruding and visible tip. The seed cones are drooping in all members of the family except the firs and a small genus confined to southern China and south-eastern Asia. All members of the family are evergreen except the larches.\n\nThe pine genus itself is the largest in the family, with 93 species, only about 13 of which are native to Europe. Pines grow in a wide range of habitats, from sea level to altitudes of 2,400 m (7,874 ft) in Europe and are distinguished from other members of the family by the leaves, which are in bundles. Each bundle contains a specific number of leaves, depending on the species, with a sheath of short, scale-like leaves at the base.\n\nPines can be divided into two groups, hard pines and soft pines, based on the number of needles per bundle and other characteristics. The hard pines have needles in bundles of two or three, and the scale leaves at the base persist in mature bundles. The wood is usually hard, with a close grain. Well-known species include the Scots pine, which is the only species of pine native to Britain and is the dominant tree of the great Caledonian forests of Scotland. It is also widespread in Europe, especially on light soils on high ground. It is a distinct tree with a small, often lopsided crown and long bare trunk with reddish bark in the upper part. The Austrian pine grows on alkaline and neutral soils in central and southern Europe. It is widely planted for timber. The stone pine is a Mediterranean species with a characteristic umbrella shape. It is grown both as an ornamental and for the edible seeds, sold as pine kernels.\n\nThe soft pines have needles in bundles of five, and the scale leaves fall away from the mature bundles. Their wood is soft and has a coarse grain. There are few native European soft pines but a number of North American and Asian species are widely grown. One native species is the arolla pine, a mountain tree growing at altitudes between 1,500 and 2,400 m (4,921 and 7,874 ft) in the Alps and Carpathian mountains. The Bhutan pine is a Himalayan tree frequently planted for its semi-weeping foliage. Bristlecone pines are native to North America. The Great Basin bristlecone, which can live more than 5,000 years, is possibly one of the oldest living things on the planet. Through analysis of the annual rings of these trees, scientists can gain information on the climate thousands of years ago.\n\nBoth pine groups are economically important for their timber, pulp, tar, and turpentine, and for their use as ornamentals. Other members of the pine family include Douglas fir, hemlock fir, and spruce.\n\nScientific classification: Pines make up the family Pinaceae. Its representative genus is Pinus. Cedars are classified in the genus Cedrus, the larches in the genus Larix, and firs in the genus Abies. The Scots pine is classified as Pinus sylvestris, the Austrian pine as Pinus nigra, the stone pine as Pinus pinea, the arolla pine a
789274
In the sources I have listed below are keys to identifying trees.\n\nJust follow the instructions and good luck.