Encyclopedia > Evergreen

  Article Content

Evergreen

This article is about the plant type. For other uses see Evergreen (disambiguation)
Evergreen has two meanings in relation to plants. The first meaning is that of a plant retaining its foliage year-round. Most tropical plants are naturally evergreen, the main exceptions being some growing in arid climates or climates with an extreme dry season. In temperate zones, however, few plants are evergreen; most are deciduous. The majority of Australian native plants are evergreen, replacing their leaves gradually throughout the year as they fall.

The other meaning of evergreen is that of conifer. Technically, this is incorrect since some conifers, the larch for example, are decidious and lose their needles once a year.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Westhampton Beach, New York

... The average household size is 2.25 and the average family size is 2.81. In the village the population is spread out with 20.5% under the age of 18, 6.1% from 18 to 24, ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 38.3 ms