Pine is a type of tree you know very well because it’s associated with Christmas. The tallest pine is 268.35 ft. And the oldest tree (one of the oldest living organisms on the planet) was born around 4,800 years ago. Pine is easy to tell from other trees because the needles are in a bundle from 2 to 7 needles in each.
Cupressus can be a tree or a big shrub. The name of the tree is the name of a young man from an old legend that accidentally shot his favorite deer. The man was so sad that Apollo turned it into a plant, a symbol of grief. Young trees have needle-like leaves, and old ones have scale-like leaves.
Kauri is a conifer that can be as tall as 164 feet (50 meters) with smooth bark and a wide, thick trunk. Kauri forests are some of the most ancient in the world. The ancestors of these trees appeared in the Jurassic period (around 190-135 million years old). Kauri trees don’t have needles, they have leaves that are broad, tough, and leathery in texture. A single tree produces both male and female seed cones.

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