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Evergreen plants Plants that retain their green foliage throughout the year. Popularly, needle-leaved trees (pine, fir, juniper, spruce) and certain broad-leaved shrubs (rhododendron, laurel) are called evergreens. In warm regions many broad-leaved trees (magnolia, live oak) are evergreen, and in the tropics most trees are evergreen and nearly all have broad leaves. Many herbaceous biennials and perennials have basal rosettes with leaves close to the ground that remain green throughout the winter. See Forest and forestry, Leaf, Plant taxonomy How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Evergreen plants, which include nearly all shrubs and ground covers found in Southern California gardens, as well as most of our trees, simply stop growing when they go dormant. To ancient peoples, evergreen plants signified that light and fertility would rebound. The Japanese garden, with its avowed intent of imitating nature, consists of perennial, mostly evergreen plants, which flower briefly, if at all. |
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