Today flowering plant species outnumber by twenty to one those of ferns and cone-bearing trees, or conifers, which had thrived for 200 million years before the first bloom appeared. As a food ...

and conifers. At the end of the period, about 80 million years later, oceans filled yawning gaps between isolated continents shaped much as they are today. Flowering plants were spreading across ...

THOUGH “the abominable mystery,” as Darwin called the problem of the origin of Flowering Plants ... endeavour to derive the Gnetales from the Conifers, a group characterised as a whole ...

The damage the researchers observed on Jurassic conifers, for example, was similar to how more recent insects chewed through the leaves of flowering plants in the Cretaceous. In this ...

Most modern gymnosperms—conifers and gingkoes, for instance—rely on the wind to spread their pollen. For some gymnosperms called cycads, insects serve as their pollen shuttle service, and did so long ...

So you can look after them easier. Plants fall into four categories: With seeds or without seeds; flowering plants, conifers, ferns and mosses. Ivy: Four categories? So does that mean I have to do ...