DENDROLOGY AND SOCIETY
FAMILIES OF ANGIOSPERMS
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gymnosperms with broader climatic tolerance
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angiosperms with broader climatic tolerance
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gymnosperms with fire-adapted characters
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angiosperms with fire-adapted characters
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Detailed explanation-1: -First Flowering Plants Angiosperms (flowering plants) appeared in the fossil record more than 100 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period. Once they appeared, they quickly became the dominant type of plant life on land and remain so today.
Detailed explanation-2: -They included the cycads, ginkgoes, conifers, and ferns. The flowering plants (angiosperms) appeared in the Early Cretaceous, became common by the beginning of the middle of the Cretaceous, and came to represent the major component of the landscape by the mid-to-late Cretaceous.
Detailed explanation-3: -However, fossil evidence suggests that by the end of the Cretaceous the angiosperms had spectacularly taken over the dominant position from the gymnosperms around the globe.