On the wild side
Jan 01, 2022
2 minutes
BY EDWARD KANZE
For millions of years, conifers, plants that produce seeds in cones and abound in the Adirondacks’ most picturesque places, dominated the world’s forests. Conifers are largely evergreen. The exception in the Adirondacks is the deciduous tamarack, which sheds its needles in fall and grows a new set in springtime.
Conifers are gymnosperms. From the Greek, gymn means “naked” and sperm means
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