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Trees. A tundra is a cold desert, and thus have almost no trees growing in it. In a taiga, coniferous forests with abundance of pine, fir and spruce while closed-canopy forests of maple, oak and elm can usually be found. However, in a tundra, vegetation is mostly comprised of dwarf shrubs, sedges, grasses, mosses and lichens.

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