The plant you choose should have dark green foliage. fallen yet low or damaged leaves indicate poor handling or fertilization, lack of water or a root disease problem. The colorful flower bracts (red, pink, white or bicolor pink and white) Should be in proportion to the plant and pot size. Little or no pollen should be showing oil the actual flowers (those red or green button-like parts in the center of the colorful bracts). Be sure the plant is well wrapped when you take it outside on your trip home because exposure to low temperatures for even a short time can injure leaves and bracts.
Full Definition of CONIFER. : any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (as pines) with true cones and others (as yews) with an arillate fruit.
Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty Images. Conifer trees are the oldest living things on earth as well as some of the largest. This group of trees is very ancient, appearing during the Carboniferous period -- from 354 to 290 million years ago -- along with the pelycosaurs, the ancestor of birds, animals and reptiles.n conifers, this object is the cone. Cones can be male or female, and most conifers have both male and female cones on the same tree. The plant sends pollen from the male cones to the female cones' receptors using the wind.