Conifers

Conifers are trees with needle-like, typically evergreen leaves that make their seeds not in flowers but in cones.

With gingkos and cycads, they make up the group of plants called Gymnosperms, all of which make their seeds in cones.

Many conifers are cone-shaped, which helps them shed snow in winter.

The needles of some pines can grow up to 30 cm long. But the biggest needles ever were those of the extinct Cordaites, over 1m long and 15 cm wide.

Conifers grow over most of the world, but the biggest conifer forest are in places with cold winters, such as North Siberia, northern North America and on mountain slopes almost everywhere.

Super power

The needles-like shape and waxy coating of the leaves helps to save water and avoid animals from stealing the water.

Able to protect themselves by using cunning defence trick to avoid animals stole their water stored.

This tree protect butterflies egg from any other insect which can help environment.

The world’s tallest tree, 

the redwood is a conifer.

The world’s most massive tree, 

The Giant Sequoia, is a conifer.

The World’s oldest trees, 

The Bristlecone Pine of California and Nevada, almost 5,000 years old