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Pyramidal deciduous-leaved cone-bearing trees; twigs with resinous taste; rapidly-growing shoots have numerous scattered strongly decurrent leaf-scars with single bundle-scars; leaves borne on short stout wart-like branchlets (peg-like protuberances) along the branches, with densely clustered leaf-scars abundant. One of the few genera of deciduous coniferous plants. |
| 90. | Cones 0.5 to 0.75 inches long with few scales; twigs pale reddish-brown; a native tree growing in swamps. | |
| 90. | Cones 1 inch or more long with many scales; twigs yellowish, stouter; a European tree. | Larix
decidua, European Larch |