HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Gymnosperm means as “naked seed". This group is often referred to as softwoods. Gymnosperms usually have needles that stay green throughout the year. Examples are pines, cedars, spruces and firs.

Detailed explanation-2: -All the pines, hemlocks, spruces, and firs are gymnosperms, one of the two main groups of spermatophytes, or seed plants. The second group, which includes the oaks, birches, maples, hickories, ashes and other familiar deciduous trees of the North Quabbin are angiosperms.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pine trees are in a group of plants called Gymnosperms. This means “naked seed.” That is because, unlike a flowering plant, the seeds of pine trees are not inside a protective, fleshy fruit. Think of how an apple protects its seeds inside its fleshy body. A gymnosperm does not have that.