plant of the month: conifer
There are 800 species of these trees and the only thing they all have in common is they bear cones (hence the name). You can’t even rely on them being green, or evergreen: in the UK we have larches that change colour in autumn and then drop their leaves. But most conifers have needle-like leaves along with their cones, and that’s the easiest way to identify them.
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Conifers are extremely resilient. They can grow in almost any conditions, survive pretty much every kind of rubbishy soil, will cling to rocky cliffs and can withstand lengthy dry periods.
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