1. Agathoxylon sp.
The form-genus Agathoxylon is common across much of the fossil record starting in the later Paleozoic, but the one I used here is an indeterminate species from the Purbeck Forest of Jurassic England. I came across it in my research and found that this unique population was shrubby, not conical like other conifers.
2. Alethopteris serli
A widely distributed tree fern. Despite having prop roots, these aren't really aquatic plants like mangroves are.
3. Monkey-puzzle (Araucaria araucana)
an iconic ancient-looking conifer from the mountains of Chile.
4. Norfolk Island pine (Araucaria heterophylla)
not actually a pine, but a native of Australia's Norfolk Island and grown ornamentally and as Christmas trees in the tropics. If you live in Hawaii or South Florida you've seen these around before.
5. Araucarioxylon arizonicum
A giant conifer resembling a modern Sequoia. Their fossil trunks are commonly found in the Petrified Forest of Arizona
6. Archaeopteris macilenta
A very primitive spore-bearing tree, and one of the first "true" woody trees.
7. Baiera furcata
A narrow-leafed ginkgoacean tree.
8. Bjuvia simplex
A primitive frondose tree; I don't think the internet is sure on whether or not it's a cycad or a bennettitale.
9. Brachyphyllum castilhoi
With a name meaning "short leaf", this conifer leaf taxon is known mainly from stout leaves. The species here represents a small/medium cheirolepid from the Crato Formation of Cretaceous Brazil.
10. Calamites
a giant relative of modern horsetails from the Carboniferous. This pack has two species, C. cistii and C. suckowi
11. Cordaites principalis
A gymnosperm from the upper Carboniferous and Permian periods. Grew immersed sometimes in brackish water, though some sources claim there are highland/montane species known as well.
12. Cunninghamites elegans
A tall conifer distantly related to modern pines and spruces. This genus has living relatives in China known as "China-fir", but in the past was widely distributed. Its needles have been found in coprolites (fossil poop) that likely belonged to Edmontosaurus, so this plant was probably on the menu for many herbivores of the later Mesozoic.
13. Cycadeoidea megalophylla
A rotund, almost ball-shaped short bennettitale. Notable for bearing flower-like strobili.
14. Dicroidium zuberi
A seed-fern known from the late Permian through the Jurassic. Widely distributed today on many continents, it grew in what was then the southern part of Pangea.
14. Ditaxocladus catenulatus
A North American cedar that appeared in the Cretaceous and survived into the Paleogene.
15. "Dryophyllum" subfalcatum
A common tree species from the Late Cretaceous of North America, found in many environments. Possibly a relative of walnuts? Or sycamores? Its designation as a Dryophyllum isn't even clear.
16. Rough Horsetail (Equisetum hyemale)
A horsetail from modern Europe that lacks brushy foliage, being stick-like. Can be used in pretty much any prehistoric or modern wetland setting as horsetails are incredibly old plants.
17. Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)
a famous "living fossil" gymnosperm native only to the mountains of Zhejiang today but grown in many Buddhist monasteries and cities worldwide. Turns a beautiful golden color in autumn, but I can't program that in, unfortunately.
18. Glossopteris communis
A widely-distributed tree of southern Pangea during the Permian, its fossils are used as evidence of continental drift. in life, it was tolerant of colder climates.
19. Chinese water cypress (Glyptostrobus pensilis)
The only living member of its genus, endangered but native to Vietnam, Laos, and southeastern China
20. Melinjo (Gnetum gnemon)
The gnetophytes appeared in the early Cretaceous and are around today in various forms in Asia and Africa. G. gnemon is one of the more tree-like members of the group, and its nuts are used culinarily in southeast Asia.
21. Hermanophyton taylorii
Known only from very skinny stem/trunk fossils found in the Jurassic-aged Morisson Formation. Its foliage is unknown, though it is suggested to have seed-fern affinities.
22. Hirmeriella muensteri
A cheirolepid conifer from early Mesozoic Europe. Possibly fire-tolerant, as charcoal deposits in the rocks it's found in indicate that it lived in an area prone to frequent fires.
33. Lepidodendron dicentricum
a seedless "scale-bark tree", one of the tallest of the tree-like lycopsids. It grew large spore-bearing strobili when mature.
34. Liriodendrites bradacii
A Cretaceous relative of modern tulip trees. Very tall and flowery.
35. Marmarthia
A genus of laurel shrub from the Cretaceous of North America. The pack has two species, M. pearsonii and M. trivialis
36. Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides)
Another prehistoric Chinese conifer, known from fossils before being found alive in the 1940s. Formerly grown across the northern hemisphere, it is almost extinct in the wild but is now grown ornamentally across its former range.
37. Neuropteris loschi
A seed-fern, part of a group related to modern cycads.
38. Magellan's Southern Beech (Nothofagus betuloides)
Southern Beech grow naturally across New Zealand and South America, and fossils are known from Antarctica. When the climate was warmer and these continents connected, these trees grew together but speciated as the land split apart. This particular species is also the world's southernmost tree.
39. Mangrove Palm (Nypa fruticans)
A strange palm tree or shrub that grows like a mangrove, in brackish water across Southeast Asia. Known from fossils going back to the Cretaceous.
40. Pachypteris rhomboidalis
A thick-leaved seed fern. Known almost exclusively from estuarine and shallow-marine deposits, this plant was likely a halophyte growing in salty coastal sands.
41. Pleuromeia dubia
A small lycopsid that boomed rapidly across Pangea during the early Triassic as the world rebounded from the Great Dying.
42. Podozamites jurassica
Once thought to be an Agathis, this tree grew in Australia during the (you guessed it) Jurassic. Other members of the form-genus Podozamites are known from Eurasia.
43. Prototaxites
A giant upright fungus from the Silurian and early Devonian that predated trees. I recreated two species; the older P. milwaukeensis as a columnar saprotroph, and the younger P. loganii as a branching lichen.
44. Psaronius weberi
A large tree fern from the late Carboniferous and Permian. It was host to various vines and epiphytes on its trunk.
45. Ptilophyllum muelleri
A benettitale that was widely distributed across the Mesozoic world, and possibly held out in Australia until the Oligocene.
46. Sagenopteris elliptica
Reconstructed as a caytonialean tree. Sagenopteris is a seed-fern form genus with a cosmopolitan distribution.
47. Sapindopsis magnifolia
A tentative relative of the modern sycamore.
48. Kōyamaki (Sciadopitys verticillata)
Also known as Umbrella Pine, this rare Japanese conifer is the sole surviving member of its family, dating back over 70 million years.
49. Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens)
The tallest tree in the world, sequoias are also known well in the fossil record. Seriously this thing was life-size, 115 blocks tall, and took me half an hour to make the first one
50. Sigillaria scutellata
An iconic arborescent lycopsid of the late Carboniferous and Permian, with potential records as far back as the Devonian. Known for its iconic tufts and large spore-bearing strobili.
51. Tempskya jonesii
One of the weirdest-looking ferns, with an odd "trunk" made of modified roots and fronds coming out of it.
52. Walchia piniformis
An early true conifer superficially resembling a cypress, coming from the later Carboniferous and early Permian of Europe and North America.
53. Wattieza givetiana
The "first tree" known, this was a short plant with fan-shaped foliage distantly related to ferns.
54. Weichselia reticulata
A tree fern that grew on prop roots. It was xerophytic, and grew in savannah and coastal environments. Popularly recreated as a mangrove-analogue.
55. Wielandiella angustifolia
A bennettitale that grew in disturbed environments, likely around rivers.
56. Williamsonia gigas
One of the most well-known bennettitales (relatively). Vaguely palm-like in shape.
57. Yimaia capituloformis
This Chinese ginkgo relative was apparently so iconic that the insect Juracimbrophlebia ginkgofolia evolved to mimic its leaf shape, as many insects do with modern leaves. Or at least the leaves; Yimaia as a form-genus only refers to the fruit fossils.
58. Queensland Kauri (Agathis robusta)
A tropical Australian conifer with a thick, smooth trunk and broad leaves instead of needles.
59. Bunya-bunya (Araucaria bidwilli)
Another Queensland native, very tall and known for its large cones. Aboriginal Australians would eat the seeds, and presumably, dinosaurs did millions of years before them
60. Roble Beech (Nothofagus obliqua)
An oak-like southern beech native to the Valdivian forest of temperate South America. Also known as "Patagonian oak".
61. Frenelopsis alata
A small Mesozoic conifer that grew along sandy areas in beaches as well as arid environments.
62. Kunduriphyllum kundurensis
A sycamore relative from the Cretaceous of Asia.
63. Palmoxylon dindooriensis
A fan palm from the latest Cretaceous of India, found in the beds between the Deccan Traps' flood basalt deposits.
64. Pseudofrenelopsis capillata
Another small, hardy conifer similar to Frenelopsis, hence the name.
65. Taeniopteris sp.
A bennettitale of the Cretaceous; it apparently was widely distributed in the Triassic but became restricted to Gondwana by the Cretaceous.
66. Trochodendroides lanceolata
A relative of the modern Katsura (Cercidophyllum), from Cretaceous Asia.
67. Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis)
A conifer found in a small valley in Australia during the late 20th century, though fossils similar to it had been found elsewere for years prior.