Plants

[|Sitka spruce] a.k.a picea sitchensis A Sitka spruce is a tree and it grows very quickly to attract sunlight. This timber is used to build with and to build boxes and paper. The cones of a sitka spruce can a grow up to about. [|The cones] are reddish, yellowish to brown. The bark can be brown or purplish gray. The sitka spruce has pine needles instead of leaves. The Sitka spruce grows in the coastal sea level to about 75.6 meters or 248 feet tall. The Sitka spruce reliese on the sun, soil and a water source. It grow near the ocean because it needs a cool moist air around it. It creates a habitat for deer, birds and insects it also creates food for deer and insects. Did you know that your modern day instruments like electric guitars, violins, piano, cellos, and tables are made of [|Sitka spruce.]? it's also used in paper, pencils, and your wooden ruler (if you have one) it's used in many things made of wood to day. Anyway its always around you. Maybe it's the tree next door.
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**CONEFLOWER** [|Cone flower] A cone flower is a flower that lives in the coastal rainforest. It is called the cone its scientific name is [|Echinacea]. Echinacea changes its color in fall and spring. It lives through summer and fall. Echinacea can get a virus and it makes yellow splotches on the leaves and the stem becomes deformed. The cone flower is 24-36 inches tall. It is 18-24 inches wide. The colors it changes too ate red, dark pink, and magenta. It's bloom size is 2 inches. It's zone is 4-9. It needs full sun to grow. It can survive droughts. When it sprouts it looks like a cone and that's why it's called the con flower.

A Trilliumhas three leafs and three petals. [|Trilliums] likes to live under shade and some sun. They live under the tress because there is a lot of shade. A trilliums scientific name is Trillium ovatum. The trillium is the most common flower in coastal forests. It is also known as the Stinking Benjamin. They can live for a long time because they stink so bad no animal is brave enough to come near them. The trillium can grow up to 12 inches wide, and 24 inches tall. It mostly grows under [|Douglas fir]trees, because trilliums love shade. The trillium lives in the temperate deciduous forest.In Portland they have a trillium festival every year. Some medicines have trillium, trillium is also In some wine. Trilliums bloom in the early spring. The trilliums adaptions are big leaves so they get the right amount of sun ad shade. They give out a horrible odor to keep enemies away. And has a [|lipid] rich liquid covered in lovely ant food. Then the trilliums reproduce. So triliumsdepend on ants and anas kinda depemd on them.
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