Few flags depict conifers. One exception is the flag of Norfolk Island (Australia), which bears the silhouette of Araucaria heterophylla. Others are the flags of Lebanon (Cedrus libani) and the U.S. state of Maine (Pinus strobus). Lately, cell phone towers have been trying to imitate conifers. This one in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico is trying to look like an Araucaria columnaris [R. Van Pelt, Feb-2005]. |
TopicsNew! (and still in progress, 2008.07) My Favorite Trees Alphabetical Index of All Taxa On This Website A Rationale for the Gymnosperm Database Recent Notes on the Database
Review of the Gymnosperm Literature Online Interview
Conifers in Human Culture
Augering holes to fell the Discovery Tree, the first really big sequoia ever found, in 1852 at the Calaveras North Grove [from Tree Size Determination]. Tree Age Determination, and Roster of the Ancients
Tree Size Determination, and A Tale of Big Tree Hunting In California PDF file: Forest Dynamics In A Forest-Tundra Ecotone, Medicine Bow Mountains, Wyoming. This is the text of my 1993 dissertation, which people sometimes request copies of. Link opens in a new window. Anas pseudarboris, the Christmas Tree
A collection of regionally focused pages: Gymnosperms of Alta California Conifer Hunting In Central Mexico (2005)
Conifer Hunting In Northern Mexico (2007)
Podocarp forests of south-west New Zealand Biographical sketch for Thomas Kirk, New Zealand botanist Paleobotany of Australia and New Zealand Conifers |