Nature Example
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Non-flowering Plants
These ancient plants do not produce flowers. Instead, they reproduce using spores or seeds from cones.
Examples: Ferns, mosses, and conifers (like pine trees).
💡 Fun Facts
- Ferns: Existed on Earth hundreds of millions of years before the dinosaurs.
- Mosses: Act like natural sponges and can hold up to 20 times their own weight in water.
- Conifers, like pine trees, are some of the oldest living things on Earth. A bristlecone pine in California is estimated to be over 5,000 years old.
- The seeds of a conifer are protected inside a woody cone, which opens up in dry weather to release them.
- Mosses don't have roots to absorb water; instead, they soak it up through their tiny leaves.