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unusual facts about coniferous



Agathis macrophylla

Agathis macrophylla, known as Pacific kauri, is a coniferous tree native to the islands of the southwestern Pacific Ocean in tropical humid lowlands and lower montane regions, notably in Fiji, Vanuatu, the Santa Cruz Islands, and the Solomon Islands.

Andrew Delmar Hopkins

He became a specialist in the bark beetle family Scolytidae, especially the genus Dendroctonus, species of which are the most destructive insects in coniferous forests of North America.

Arbor vitae

Arborvitae, Thuja, a genus of coniferous trees in the cypress family

Asemum striatum

They are polyphagous in coniferous trees (mainly feeding on Pinus sylvestris, Pinus mugo and Pinus nigra, but also on Picea abies and Abies or Larix species).

Austroriparian

As designated by Miklos Udvardy, it includes the humid coniferous and mixed temperate forests of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain and the Atlantic Coastal Plain from eastern Texas to southeastern Virginia, including all but the southernmost portion of Florida, and covering portions of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas.

Bryolymnia ensina

It occurs in coniferous forests from south-eastern Arizona (Huachuca Mountains) and south-western New Mexico (Pinos Altos Mountains) southward in the Sierra Madre Occidental to the State of Durango in Mexico.

Chuguyevsky District

The territory is rugged by the ranges and spurs of Sikhote-Alin mountain system and almost totally covered with forests and bushes mainly of coniferous-deciduous kind.

Ctenopseustis obliquana

The larvae feed on a wide range of plants, including various broadleaved and coniferous trees and ferns, for instance Eucalyptus, Quercus, Acacia, Larix, Picea, Pinus and Pseudotsuga species.

Deileptenia ribeata

Larvae feed on various coniferous trees, including Taxus baccata, Abies alba, Carpinus betulus, Betula, Quercus, Prunus spinosa, Vaccinium uliginosum, Lonicera xylosteum and Picea.

Eupithecia albicapitata

The larvae bore the cones of various coniferous trees, including Picea glauca, Picea engelmannii, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Abies balsamea, Pinus resinosa and Pinus banksiana.

Fetteresso Forest

The Fetteresso Forest is a woodland that is principally coniferous situated in the Mounth range of the Grampian Mountains in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Ground pine

Diphasiastrum complanatum (syn. Lycopodium complanatum), also known as northern running-pine, a species of clubmoss native to dry coniferous forests throughout the Holarctic Kingdom

Macaria liturata

The caterpillars feed on coniferous trees such as Scots pine.

Nematocampa resistaria

Larvae feed on various deciduous and coniferous trees and shrubs, including Pseudotsuga, Tsuga, Abies, Picea, Salix, Betula papyrifera, Corylus, Fragaria and carrot Daucus.

Northern long-eared myotis

This species is found primarily in coniferous forest from Newfoundland to the Yukon, and in the southeastern United States through to Florida.

Pinene

As the name suggests, both forms are important constituents of pine resin; they are also found in the resins of many other conifers, as well as in non-coniferous plants such as big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata).

Potential natural vegetation

In Japan Prof. Akira Miyawaki, demonstrated after study that, on the one hand, long supposed "native species" had infact been introduced on account of human intervention since over 1000 years (especially, coniferous being priviledged over deciduous).

Smolyan Province

The dense coniferous forests are prerequisite for well developed timber industry in Dospat, Smolyan, Devin.

St Cassian's Centre

A coniferous tree named Marge stands just behind Cedric it is named Marge after its resemblance to Marge Simpson's hair-do.

Stenurella melanura

Larvae develop in rotten wood of deciduous and coniferous trees, especially Castanea sativa.

T. chinensis

Tsuga chinensis, the Taiwan or Chinese hemlock, a coniferous tree species native to China, Taiwan, Tibet and Vietnam

T. plicata

Thuja plicata, the Western redcedar, an evergreen coniferous tree species native to western North America

White-browed Tit

It breeds in alpine shrub forests of Berberis, Rhamnus, Rhododendron, and Salix at 3,200–4,235 m altitude, descending in winter to slightly lower levels where it occurs in coniferous forests, primarily Picea.

Widdringtonia

The name was apparently Austrian botanist Stephan Endlicher's way of honouring an early expert on the coniferous forests of Spain, Capt. Samuel Edward Cook or Widdrington (1787-1856).


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