1. By: Timmy w.

2. Intro The trees in the Taiga are mainly spruce, pine, and fir. The plants adapt to harsh weather in this environment, like icy and snowy winters. For example, the needles of the pine are very smooth to help keep water inside the dark casing. The spruce's cone like shape allows them to shed ice and sleet more efficiently. Berry bushes that thrive in this biome are blueberry, bilberry, and cowberry. Berry bushes are a vital food source for mammals, birds and some types of insects. Not very common trees that grow in the Taiga are birch, oak, willow, and alder. They live in particularly wet or disturbed areas.

3. Balsam fur You can find this in northern north America. The balsam fur can grow up to 40-80 feet. A thick base until the top witch is a spiky kind of top.

4. Black Spruce A black spruce is a tall tree that grows up to 25 meters. This tree grows in the taiga biome. As the tree gets older the crown on the tree gets more like a spike and develops like other plants in this biome.

5. Jack Pine Jack pine usually grows up to be 27 meters tall and 32 centimeter diameter around the trunk. The jack pine has needles instead of leaves and long slender sticks.

6. Douglas furs Douglas-firs are very big. They can grow from 40 to 60 feet tall and 15 to 25 feet wide. Because of this they are one of the most important lumber trees in the world.

7. The eastern red seeder The Eastern Red Cedar is a small evergreen that commonly grows to a height of 10-50 feet. Its name is misleading since it is a juniper and not a cedar. Its range is from Nova Scotia to northern Florida, and west to the Dakotas and Texas.

8. Paper Birch Paper birch trees have a thin bark that peels in horizontal layers which separates into sheets, almost like paper. Birch trees can grow in pairs or clusters.

9. White Spruce Most spruce needles are four-sided, stiff, and less than one inch long, 2.5 centimeters to be exact. Woody, like projections help join the needles to the twigs. Spruce trees grow tall and most are shaped like pyramids. Some grow as tall as one hundred and fifty feet, mostly the white spruce.

10. White poplar Poplars do not live very long. It is illegal to plant poplars along streets in some cities because they clog underground drainpipes and sewers. Poplar wood is light whitish/brownish in color. It is soft, light, and fairly weak.

11. Links www.blueplanetbiomes.org/taiga.htm http://borealbiome.weebly.com/weather.html