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Conifers and more

All answers are the name of a kind of gymnosperm plant, mostly conifers. Can you get them all?
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Last updated: February 8, 2024
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First submittedFebruary 8, 2024
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Perhaps the best-known conifer genus, rhymes with wine
Pine
The H-4 Hercules airplane was nicknamed the "___ Goose"
Spruce
Many "palms" are actually these cone-bearing spiny shrubs
Cycad
Strange umbrella-shaped tree of the Chilean Andes
Monkey-puzzle
Giant tree named after the creator of the Cherokee alphabet
Sequoia
Tallest trees of the California coast
Redwood
Sounds like what a dog is covered in
Fir
Like the above, but named after Scottish botanist David Douglas
Douglas Fir
Tree that shares a name with the poisonous plant that killed Socrates
Hemlock
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Berry-bearing shrub or small tree of dry mountains
Juniper
"Living fossil" tree found in a single valley in Australia
Wollemia
Another rare Chinese conifer first known from fossils
Dawn Redwood
Mediterranean evergreen said to have been used to build Noah's Ark
Cypress
Conifer from the mountains and flag of Lebanon
Cedar
Deciduous conifer also known as tamarack
Larch
Tropical Australasian conifer with a Maori common name
Kauri
Fan-leafed urban ornamental; not a conifer, but not a flowering tree either
Ginkgo
Churchyard tree named not me, but you
Yew
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