In elementary school, most of us learned the basic differences between deciduous and coniferous trees. Deciduous trees have leaves that change color and drop in the fall, and coniferous trees have ...

Nature classifies all trees into three main groups. Deciduous trees shed leaves seasonally. Evergreen trees remain green year-round. Coniferous trees reproduce using cones. These categories explain ...

Plants that drop all their leaves at one time and enter a leafless, dormant state are called deciduous. In climates that ...

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Winter may look quiet for peach trees, but what you do during dormancy can shape their health, structure, and productivity in ...

One of my favorite excursions of the year is my AP Environmental Science class field trip up Blue Job Mountain in Farmington, N.H. The purpose of this field trip is to collect data about a variety of ...

As the boreal forests of Alaska recover from wildfires, they may shift from containing mostly coniferous trees to a deciduous-coniferous mix – and this change could ultimately offset some of the ...

If your conifer is surrounded by dropped needles on the ground, it could be a normal part of its growth, but in some cases it ...