The first fossil evidence of a pine cone sprouting seeds has been preserved in 40 million-year-old amber. Seed germination typically occurs in the ground after a seed has fallen, but several embryonic ...
Look up, look down, and look all around because it appears to be another banner year for cones. Pine cones, spruce cones, fir cones when we talk “pine” cones it includes them all and today that’s just ...
As you admire your holiday decorations, pause to examine a pine cone (or a spruce cone or a fir cone). What is this dry, brown thing in your hand, with its airy rows of scales? Think of it as ...
Conservationists are teaming up with the U.S. Forest Service and logging companies to clear scorched land and make room for ...
In terms of subtropical conversation pieces, pinecone ginger is about as perfect as it gets. First, there's the visual: decidedly, um, masculine, but covered with spirals of scalloped scarlet scales, ...
There’s always a new pine species that’s worth learning about. This one is growing in a small park not far from my house in the Shandon area of Columbia where I live. Here, it is a common native ...
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