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Conifers

These bear seeds in structures called cones.

Have small needle shaped green leaves.

Don’t have flowers but produce pollen and ovules in cones.

Examples include; Pine, Cedar, Fir, Cypress, Cycades, Podo,
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Economic value of conifers

 They give us soft wood timber.

 Act as wind breakers.

 Produce soft wood for making papers, match sticks, ceiling

boards.

 Earns foreign exchange.