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Flowering Plant Phylogeny

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The main points are:

  • Flowering plants have been around since the Cretaceous Period, 125 Million yrs. bp.
  • Before that time, during the Carboniferous, trees were mostly spore-bearing, and related to ferns.
  • Trees do not form a synapomorphic group. They occur in nearly all plant orders.

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