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Most of the trees there are hardwoods like, oak, poplar, maple, and elms, these trees all have wide leaves, unlike conifers like pines, spruce, cedars and junipers, which are called also evergreens.

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Is coniferous and deciduous trees a group of trees like a forest?

The terms Coniferous and Deciduous refer to two different types of trees. Deciduous trees have broad leaves, which they shed every year. For example, Oak, Birch and Maple. Conifers have much smaller, needle or scale like foliage. For example, Pine, Cedar and Spruce. Sometimes forests are classified according to the type of tree they contain the most of. For example if you were to go out into a forest that contained mostly oak trees, with the odd poplar you'd be correct in assuming you were in a deciduous forest.


What kind of trees lose their leaves in autumn?

A Deciduous tree


Are tropical evergreen forests and tropical rain forest same?

Deciduous means the tree loses its leaves completely in either the cold season or the dry season. This is usually winter. In North America 'deciduous tree' commonly is a term used by people and garden centers for any broad-leaf tree (apples, elms, maples etc), because across most of the US and Canada all broad-leaf trees lose their leaves in autumn (fall). Most North Americans call conifers (plants that carry their seeds in cones and typically have needle-like leaves - pines, yews, cedars, etc) 'evergreens' because most of them keep their leaves all year round. However, some conifers also lose their leaves each year, like the larch and the pond cypress. These are 'deciduous conifers'. In places like Australia most of the continent doesn't get very cold, so deciduous trees (trees that drop their leaves) are almost completely absent. Most of the trees in Australia, such as eucalyptus, are broad-leaf trees (so, have flowers not cones) but keep their leaves all year, so are 'evergreen'. A very small number of tropical eucalyptus species, however, are deciduous dropping their leaves for the dry season. So eucalyptus are mostly 'broad-leaf evergreen' trees.


What is broadleave?

Broad leaves refer to wide leaves and commonly found in deciduous trees. Some common trees with broad leaves include oak, maple, birch and elm.


How are broad-leaved trees adapted to living in deciduous forest?

They adapt to the deciduous forest by shedding their leaves in the fall and they regrow them in the spring to avoid being killed by drying and freezing temperatures. Thus they survive through the winters. They also shed their leaves so they do not lose water rapidly.~Unknown Tree Examiner

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How are coniferous forests and deciduous forest are diffident?

tend to contain more broad leaf evergreen trees


Are there deciduous broad leaf forests in Hawaii?

dunno. Please answer this! Someone! Had this for a HW assignment. had no idea.


What is another name for trees that have broad leaves?

Broad leaf trees drop their leaves in Autumn and are known as deciduous.


Is coniferous and deciduous trees a group of trees like a forest?

The terms Coniferous and Deciduous refer to two different types of trees. Deciduous trees have broad leaves, which they shed every year. For example, Oak, Birch and Maple. Conifers have much smaller, needle or scale like foliage. For example, Pine, Cedar and Spruce. Sometimes forests are classified according to the type of tree they contain the most of. For example if you were to go out into a forest that contained mostly oak trees, with the odd poplar you'd be correct in assuming you were in a deciduous forest.


What is a deciduous tree also known as?

Most deciduous trees are angiosperms (flowering plants) and also called "broad leaf" trees, in comparison to the needles on conifers. There are, however, some deciduous conifers, such as the larch and tamarack.


What do you call Broad-leaf trees that grow in temperate climates and lose their leaves in the fall?

deciduous trees :)


Deciduous forest contains mostly trees with..?

Broad leaves.


What is another name trees that have broad leaves?

Broad leaf trees drop their leaves in Autumn and are known as deciduous.


Which of following types of forest is most wide spread in India?

The following are the major types of vegetation identified in our country: (a) Tropical Evergreen Forests or Tropical Rain Forest (b) Tropical Deciduous Forests or Tropical Monsoon vegetation (c) Tropical Thorn Forests and Scrubs (d) Mountain Forests or Himalayan Vegetation (e) Mangrove Forests (f) Semi-deciduous forests or grasslands / Desert Vegetation


What groups of trees are there people keep telling me different things for example someone said Evergreen and deciduous another person said something with the word broad leaf or something?

There are two main types, evergreen and deciduous. Broad leafed is just another term for deciduous.


Do giant pandas live in forests?

Yes, they live in broad-leafed forests with undergrowth of bamboo.


Are Maple tress broadleaved?

Yes a maple is a broad leaf tree and is deciduous.