Besides the visual differences, pine needles remain attached to the branch for several years while maples shed their leaves every fall. A pine needle also has its vascular tissue running down the middle, compared to the vascular network in a maple leaf. Pine needles grow in bunches of 2-6 and maple leaves grow singly on opposite sides of the stem from each other.
Pinus ponderosa the Western Yellow Pine has long stiff curved needle clustered at the ends of the the branchlets.
Both types are present in one or the other plant
The Stoma or the Stomata (plural) .
stomata :) i think...
Pine trees modify the leaves to needle like structure so that the snow slips on it.It modifies the stomata to decrease the transpiration of water.
Bishop Pine
Needle.
A pine needle. Because the pine needle has a waxy outside so it keeps all the moisturized stuff inside ( such as water).
because the geographical regions where the pine trees are growing would not allow them to have broad leaves and they have to conserve water also. In addition needle like leaves of the pine trees increase the photosynthetic surface area of these plants.
The pine tree leaves are adapted for snow deserts. To minimize the evaporation of water these become needle like, reducing the free surface area but at the same time have chlorenchyma cells with many infoldings to provide maximum space for capturing sunlight. Essential oils present in the cell sap do not allow free water to freeze under low temperature.
The venation of a pine tree's needles is called parallel.
The leaves of pine trees are needle-like.
Yes
About two inches.
it depends
a gymnosperm leaf pine needle