• the brittlegill mushroom Russula betularum grows under birch, while the closely related Russula emetica is found under conifers?
• the Pygmy Pine, a tiny creeping alpine plant growing in New Zealand, is believed to be the smallest conifer in the world?
• Scleroderris canker is a fungal disease among coniferous trees, sometimes spread by imported Christmas trees, that can kill an entire forest within a few years?
• Jōmon Sugi, located on the island of Yakushima, is the oldest specimen of Cryptomeria japonica and the largest conifer in Japan?
• conifer Torreya taxifolia was one of the first plant species listed as endangered in the United States?

Facts on topics related to Conifer

Pine

• children's book author and illustrator Christopher Manson uses traditional hand tools to create the pine woodcuts that decorate his books?
• Chroogomphus (pictured) is an edible mushroom that grows as a parasite on other fungi in pine forests?
• Jacob Nolde was so inspired by a pine tree on his land in the early 1900s that he planted 500,000 more in what is now Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center in Pennsylvania?
• during filming of The Emperor Waltz in Jasper National Park, director Billy Wilder had California pines planted on location because he was unhappy with the look of the native trees?
• the pine trees for which the community of Pine Grove, Oregon, was named were cut down in 1957?
• the specific name of the newly described fungus Suillus quiescens refers to the ability of its spores to lay dormant in the soil until pine roots are encountered?