Confires like spruce, hemlock, and fir can easily be identified as separate genera, then as individual species, by observing their needles and cones.

White and blue spruce trees mainly grow throughout most of Canada. ... but tend to stand upright where spruce hangs downward. These cones do not drop and disintegrate attached to the tree twig.

These are lichens. Lichens are non-destructive, living organisms composed of a fungus and algae living in a symbiotic ...

Evergreen trees and shrubs often (but not always) have needles and produce cones. These needled cone-bearing trees are called conifers. Example of conifer trees include pine, fir, spruce and cedar.

When Rita Guenette bought a Colorado Blue Spruce tree from a Baker’s supermarket 40 years ago, it stood less than a foot tall in her front yard near 86th and ...