The Evergreen Biome

I will like to explain to you about the Evergreen Forest. Evergreen forests are found in Europe, Brazil, and North America. The temperature in the evergreen forest is between 60° and 90°. In this area, it is cool and warm, and sometimes, in the summer, it is humid. The evergreen forests have snowfalls in the winter. The climate there varies with short, moderately warm and moist summers, and long, extremely cold and dry winters. The average rainfall in the coniferous (evergreen) forest is about 9.4 inches per month.

I will explain to you what kinds of plants live in the evergreen forest. There are different kinds of leaves, flowers and plants. Plants will live in the evergreen forest area for about 15 years. Some shrubs and trees are both deciduous and evergreen, depending on where they are growing. Most of the time, plants that grow there belong to the Christmas deciduous plant family.

The names of some of these plants that are in the evergreen forest are:

• Yews(Taxus)- they have dark green, leaves and the fruit consists of a single seed surrounded by soft, fleshy, bright red pulp. The bark is thick, purple and scaly.
• Pines(Pinus)- They have long needles bound in bundles resembling whisk brooms. They also have fruit that are really hard. These kinds of plants have rough scales and are easy for people and animals to climb.
• Grant sequoia:giant sequoia ( Sequoiadendron giganteum): They have needles with short, thick, sharp points. Their fruit is small, between 2-3 inches long, and woody, and are extremely hard. Their bark is reddish-brown, stringy, and very thick.
• Douglas-Fir(Oseyditsyga): They have needles that are about 1 inch long with a blunt tip. Woody cones that are about 3-4 inches long hang down. They have pitchfork-shaped brackets. They also have buds that large and pointed with redish-brown overlapping scales.

Some of the kinds of animals that live in the evergreen forest are frog, deer, owls, and foxes.

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