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Pines | Spruces | Firtrees | Hemlocks and Douglas | Cypresses | Sequoias | Cedars | Rest softwoods

Softwood key.

The text key between the species is here. Some families you can however recognize by the photographs on this page.

The cypresses have compound leafs that form surfaces of green, but most softwoods have needles.
Scherm blad van een cypres. summer photograph Kaukasische_spar__Picae_orientalis__Oriental_spruceimg_5374naaldenneedles.jpg summer photograph Zeeden__Pinus_pinaster__Maritime_pineimg_3011.jpg

Most conspicuous genuses at a glance::

Pines | Spruces | Cypresses | Sequoias | Cedars
summer photograph Grove_den__Pinus_sylvestris__Scots_pineimg_1656.jpg summer photograph Grove_den__Pinus_sylvestris__Scots_pineimg_1663.jpg summer photograph Grove_den__Pinus_sylvestris__Scots_pineimg_1767.jpg summer photograph Grove_den__Pinus_sylvestris__Scots_pineimg_2983knop.jpg

Pines | Spruces | Cypresses | Sequoias | Cedars

summer photograph Fijnspar__Picea_abies__Norway_spruceimg_4904kegelcone.jpg summer photograph Fijnspar__Picea_abies__Norway_spruceimg_4952.jpg summer photograph Fijnspar__Picea_abies__Norway_spruceimg_1827.jpg summer photograph Servische_spar__Picea_omorika__Serbian_spruceimg_5252.jpg

Pines | Spruces | Cypresses | Sequoias | Cedars
summer photograph Californische_cypres__Chamaecyparis_lawsoniana__Port-Orford_cedarimg_4083.jpg summer photograph Californische_cypres__Chamaecyparis_lawsoniana__Port-Orford_cedarimg_4086.jpg summer photograph Oosterse_levensboom__Thuja_orientalis__Oriental_arborvitaeimg_1917.jpg summer photograph Oosterse_levensboom__Thuja_orientalis__Oriental_arborvitaeimg_1918.jpg summer photograph Italiaanse_cypres__Cupressus_sempervirens__Italian_cypressimg_6524.jpg

Pines | Spruces | Cypresses | Sequoias | Cedars
foto bomen: gymnospermsfamilie foto bomen: gymnospermsfamilie summer photograph Moeras_cypress__Taxodium_distichum__Baldcypressimg_6089blad.jpg summer photograph Reuze_sequoia_Mammoetboom__Sequoiadendron_giganteum__Giant_sequoiaimg_2908.jpg summer photograph Reuze_sequoia_Mammoetboom__Sequoiadendron_giganteum__Giant_sequoiaimg_2909.jpg summer photograph Reuze_sequoia_Mammoetboom__Sequoiadendron_giganteum__Giant_sequoiaimg_0264.jpg

Pines | Spruces | Cypresses | Sequoias | Cedars
summer photograph Atlasceder__Cedrus_atlantica__Atlas_cedarimg_6633.jpg summer photograph Atlasceder__Cedrus_atlantica__Atlas_cedarimg_2053.jpg summer photograph Atlasceder__Cedrus_atlantica__Atlas_cedarimg_6636naaldenneedles.jpg summer photograph Himalaya_ceder__Cedrus_deodara__Deodara_cedarimg_2151.jpg summer photograph Himalaya_ceder__Cedrus_deodara__Deodara_cedarimg_3532.jpg

Not mentioned are Fir trees and Hemlocks and Douglas and rest softwoods .
The text key between the species is here.

If the tree is amongst the above it can be in the rest softwoods page (Larch, Monkey_puzzletree, Common_juniper, English_yew, Japanese_umbrella-pine):

foto bomen: Apenboom_slangeden__Araucaria_araucana__Monkey_puzzletree summer photograph Jeneverbes__Juniperus_communis__Common_juniperimg_3345.jpg summer photograph Japanse_parasolden__Sciadopitys_verticillata__Japanese_umbrella-pineimg_6905.jpg foto bomen: Taxus__Taxus_baccata__English_yew summer photograph Japanse_larix__Larix_kaempferi__Japanse_larchimg_8215vruchtfruit.jpg