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

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Alerce

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Bald Cypress

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Callitris columellaris

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Calocedrus macrolepis

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Chamaecyparis formosensis

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Chinese Fir

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Chinese Juniper

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Chinese Swamp Cypress

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Coast Redwood

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Common Juniper

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Dawn Redwood

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Eastern Redcedar

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Giant Sequoia

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Hinoki Cypress

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Incense Cedar

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Italian Cypress

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Japanese Cedar

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Juniperus communis

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Juniperus horizontalis

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

King Billy Pine

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Lawson's Cypress

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Leyland Cypress

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Metasequoia Glyptostroboides

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Papuacedrus

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Pencil Pine

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Port Orford Cedar

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Rocky Mountain Juniper

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Sequoia Sempervirens

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Swamp Cypress

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Taiwania

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Taxodium Distichum

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Vietnamese Golden Cypress

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Western Red Cedar

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Western Redcedar

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Widdringtonia cedarbergensis

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)
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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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