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| | Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Native Flora Garden |
 | | The trees most suited to this unusual environment are pitch pine, scrub oak, and fljack oak, which in some areas grow to no more than four or five feet tall, forming an entire pygmy forest. |
 | | It is dominated by hardwood trees such as oaks, maples, hickories, walnuts, and beeches. |
 | | Conifers, such as hemlocks, junipers, and pines, are often the first to appear, but their seedlings do not tolerate the shade produced by more aggressive deciduous species such as oaks, maples, hickories, walnuts, and beech. |
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