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Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

This group gathers Conifers and Other Gymnosperms subcategory members belonging to the cypress family, Cupressaceae, a family whose scale-like or needle-like foliage and small, often woody or berry-like cones distinguish it from the pine family, and whose reach after modern molecular revision now extends to the once-separate redwood family. It spans the true cypresses and the junipers, whose blue, fleshy female cones look and function like berries, the coast redwood and giant sequoia, among the tallest and most massive living trees on Earth, the dawn redwood, once known only as a fossil until a living population was found in China in the 1940s, the bald and swamp cypresses, adapted to grow in standing water, and a long list of trees whose common name borrows the word cedar despite belonging here rather than to the true cedars of the pine family: the western redcedar, incense cedar, Alaska cedar, Japanese cedar and Port Orford cedar among them.

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Reproductive Mode
Seed-Bearing 2
Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)
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Alaska Cedar

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Alerce

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Bald Cypress

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms
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Callitris columellaris

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Calocedrus macrolepis

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Chamaecyparis formosensis

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Chinese Fir

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Chinese Juniper

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Chinese Swamp Cypress

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Coast Redwood

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms
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Common Juniper

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Dawn Redwood

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Eastern Redcedar

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Giant Sequoia

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms
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Hinoki Cypress

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Incense Cedar

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Italian Cypress

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Japanese Cedar

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Juniperus communis

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Juniperus horizontalis

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

King Billy Pine

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Lawson's Cypress

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Leyland Cypress

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Metasequoia Glyptostroboides

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Papuacedrus

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Pencil Pine

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Port Orford Cedar

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Rocky Mountain Juniper

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Sequoia Sempervirens

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Swamp Cypress

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Taiwania

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Taxodium Distichum

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Vietnamese Golden Cypress

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Western Red Cedar

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Western Redcedar

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Widdringtonia cedarbergensis

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms
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1. Wikipedia: Taxonomic rank
WikipediaTaxonomic rank, Fundamental ranks section, rank sequence sentence, group 516763
Quote, Taxonomic rank, Fundamental ranks section, rank sequence sentence, group 516763
kingdom, phylum or division, class, order, family, genus, and species
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2. Wikipedia: Gymnosperm
WikipediaGymnosperm, lead section, group 516763
Quote, Gymnosperm, lead section, group 516763
a group of woody, perennial seed-producing plants, typically lacking the protective outer covering which surrounds the seeds in flowering plants
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