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This is the larger home country of the first tree put in genus Parrotia, an ironwood closely related to witch hazel. A very wide cypress tree of religious significance that is at least 4,000 years old is found at Abarkuh in this country. (-5[1])The Clarence Strait contains many of this country’s Hara mangrove forests. In this country, whose north contains most of the Hyrcanian (10[1])(“hurr-KAY-nee-un”) forests, (10[2]-5[1])a convention (10[2])on (10[1])wetlands (10[1])protection (10[1])was (10[1])signed (10[1])in the resort town of Ramsar. (10[3])Trees line the island of Qeshm (10[1])off this country’s (10[2])southern coast. Crocus fields in this country grow about 85% (-5[1])of the world’s saffron. (10[3])A word (10[1])that can mean “rose garden” names Golestan (-5[1])National Park in this country, whose North (10[1])Khorasan province is just south of Turkmenistan. For 10 points, name this country where oaks grow on the Zagros mountains due north of the Persian Gulf. ■END■ (10[3])

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