conifer
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The spruce bark beetle, or Ips typographus, has been munching its way through the conifer trees of Europe for decades, leaving behind a trail of destruction.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025
A footbridge carries you above a developing conifer thicket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
Angiosperms, or flowering plants, grew back faster and denser than the previously ubiquitous conifer relatives had been.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2024
The corridor offers sightseeing, sports and history amid conifer forests, alpine passes and more — but you’ll have to slow down a bit.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
They were still flying over subarctic taiga, a seemingly endless landscape of conifer forest—in English this is sometimes called “snow forest.”
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
"We've got palms, conifers, ferns, begonias, all of those families, plants are hugely important in our living collection and many of them are extinct in the wild," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The forest sees 15 million visitors each year, making it vulnerable to fires -- quite apart from its sandy soil and vegetation consisting of ferns and highly flammable conifers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
It’s surrounded by a six-acre preservation full of towering conifers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
This is very easy to picture on a hot day in California fire country, where conifers rustle against the eaves and the ground is dusty-dry.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2025
Better yet, the flat roof of the next garden's oil tank was just a foot below me, and screened by coal-blue conifers.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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