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Alerce tree
The majestic conifer ; Life cycle: perennia Blast from
An evergreen, deciduous tree, I have reddish the past
brown wood and a smooth bark that falls
away in strips. My short branches grow Alerce, sole member
horizontally downwards, giving me a conical of group Fitzroya, is
shape. I have woody cones on my branches, known to live only in
which end in a resin-secreting structure that South America but
gives off a nice smell. recently, scientists
found fossilized foliage
Bio Height: 40–60 m of Fitzroya, thirty-five
million years old, in
l
Tasmania.
I live in the Andes
Mountains of
Southern Chile and
Argentina. I am the
largest tree in South
America and my
name is alerce. I am
also called lahuán.
14–15
The majestic conifer ; Life cycle: perennia Blast from
An evergreen, deciduous tree, I have reddish the past
brown wood and a smooth bark that falls
away in strips. My short branches grow Alerce, sole member
horizontally downwards, giving me a conical of group Fitzroya, is
shape. I have woody cones on my branches, known to live only in
which end in a resin-secreting structure that South America but
gives off a nice smell. recently, scientists
found fossilized foliage
Bio Height: 40–60 m of Fitzroya, thirty-five
million years old, in
l
Tasmania.
I live in the Andes
Mountains of
Southern Chile and
Argentina. I am the
largest tree in South
America and my
name is alerce. I am
also called lahuán.
14–15
