The sugar pine is the tallest conifer pine tree. ©Richard Sniezko, US Forest Service / Public domain - Original / License Sugar pine cones are slightly different in that they grow in sets of two and are not round like some of the other pine cones in our article. They can, however,...
Head on aVirtual Field Trip to a Christmas Tree Farm. Teacher Notes about Types of Evergreen Trees An Evergreen tree is a tree that has leaves year round that are always green. There are many different varieties of evergreen trees. Most are conifers (meaning they have cones) Their leaves...
But wait, why do you need to know these edible mushrooms with pictures? Well, there are more than 10,000 types of mushrooms in nature, but only 1-2% of them are edible, with distinctive mushroom flavor profiles based on their varieties. Can you believe how small the number is? That ...
Pictures in Egyptian tombs show the use of the wooden plow and other wooden tools to prepare the land for sowing. Carpenters and shipwrights fabricated wooden boats as early as 2700 bce. Theophrastus, Varro, Pliny, Cato, and Virgil wrote extensively on the subject of trees, their ...
Different approaches can be applied to plantations: they can be managed as monocultures or as mixed coniferous and deciduous forests, strict woodlands (only trees of the same age and no undergrowth), also called regular forests, or gardening woodlands (trees of different ages and sizes), also ...