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Cupressaceae
- -Cypress Family
- -Incense Cedar-Numbr 2 Pencil
- -Scales.
- -Cypress-woody cone
- -Junipers-Flesh Cone.
- -Sequoia- redwood.
- -Needs fire to survive
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Pinaceae
- -Pine Family
- -aromatic
- -needles in a bundle
- -Mexico has the highest diversity of Pines
- -193 species.
- -Fir (Abies)
- -Christmas Tree.
- -Pines (Pinus).
- -Spuce (picea).
- -Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga)
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Ginkgoaceae
- -1 species, 270 million years old.
- -Resistant to pollution.
- -Male tree and female tree.(female trees stank)
- -Leaves look like duck foot
- -No Flowers
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Podocarpaceae
- -100 million years ago, ~200 species
- -Biggest genus- podocarpus
- -Leaves are lancate (look like lances)
- -Conifer- not a flowering plant
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Araucariaceae
- -Dino proof?
- -called monkey puzzle.
- -Crazy sharp leaves.
- -Leaves are very hard and sharp
- -Evolved with dinosaurs- have needles so that dinosaurs do not eat them
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Magnoliaceae
- -First flowering plant, everything can pollinate it (primative)
- -Pine cone created petals.
- -Flowering.
- -Always Alternate.
- -Always simple
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Moraceae
- -Figs
- -Always simple
- -always alternate.
- -Conical terminal
- -stipule.
- -white Latex.
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Fagaceae
- -Oak.
- -Lobed/toothed leaves? (oak).
- -Alternate and simple.
- -stipules deciduous
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Anacardaceae
- -simple or compound leaves
- -alternate
- -usually reddish (like rosaceae)
- -smells like turpentine
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Bignonaceae
- -opposite, compound leaves (some pinnate, some palmate)
- -always has snap dragon flower
- -wind dispersed
- -big trumpet flower
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Rosaceae
- -Roses.
- -Always serrate.
- -Red part on the leaf.
- -(Strawberries, cherries, apples, etc)
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Fabaceae
- -The pea family.
- -Ligeunminaceae
- -grasses mustard etc,
- -Fixing nitrogen,
- -leaves alternate, and compound.
- -Petioles are cylindrical.
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Arecaceae
- -palm tree
- -always alternate, compound (palmate),
- -columnar trunk
- -large leavees
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Myrtaceae
- -always alternate,
- -simple punctation smell like menthol (Eucalyptus)
- -has sugar crystals
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Asteraceae
- -Sunflower
- -disk-like flower head
- -compound flower
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Cycdaceae
- -gymnosperm
- -palmlike and unbranched, fernlike, pinnately compound,
- -short fern/palm looking, simple cone
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Malvaceae
- -hibiscus family
- -numerous stames
- -simple, alternate,
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Bombacaceae
- -columnar trunk,usually has spikes
- -compound pinnate leaves
- -alternate leaves
- -vegetation clumped at top of tree
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Plantanaceae
- -Sycamore Family
- -leaves look like Canadian Flag leaf
- -simple, palmate
- -peeling bark
- -little hairs
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Rubiaceae
- -coffee family
- -simple, entire, opposite leaves
- -stipules
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