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SMOOTH CYPRESS YEW
(Cupressus glabra) (Taxus baccata)

Immature Ovuliferous
female scale
cone Ovule
(contains female
gamete)
Ovuliferous scale CROSS-SECTION THROUGH
(ovule- then seed- IMMATURE CONE
bearing structure)
Ovuliferous scale
(ovule- then seed-
Seed bearing structure)
Single ovule
Scalelike (contains female
leaf gamete)

CROSS-SECTION Scale
THROUGH MATURE Seed
Mature CONE Female “cone”
female Immature Aril
cone male cone Scale (fleshy
Opening between outgrowth
woody scales Developing from seed)
Woody through which seed
scale seeds are Scale Stem
released
DISCARDED CONE FEMALE “CONES” AT
Stem VARIOUS STAGES OF Needle
DEVELOPMENT (foliage
CYCAD leaf)
Sago palm
(Cycas revoluta)
Pinna MAIDENHAIR TREE
(leaflet) (Ginkgo biloba) Girdle scar

Pinnate leaf Stem

Scale
leaf Petiole
(leaf stalk)

Old leaf base Bilobed leaf
Stem covered
Continuously by scale leaves
growing leaf
Adaxial (upper)
Site of cone surface of leaf
growth
Frayed end of leaf
Abaxial (lower)
surface of leaf
Immature
cone
Stalk
scar Woody stem

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