Three cones on the celebrity Lijiang spruce at the Arnold Arboretum. On the left is a male, pollen-producing cone; on the right is a female, seed-producing cone.

Farm strawberry-picking gives a friendly reminder that nature’s wild fruit will begin soon. Most raspberries, blackberries ...

Red cedars are dioecious, and separate individuals produce either pollen or seed cones. The pollen cones develop on the terminal branch tips and are golden-brown when mature. Mature seed cones are ...

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Over time, the female seed cone grows to a length of 4"-8" and turns brown at maturity. ... (May and June locally) when male cones appear and produce pollen.

Alongside all the beauty of a hike through the woods comes the added hassle of having to remove all those spiky seeds from ...

Once the flowers are pollinated, the bags are removed and the flowers are left to grow for 18 months. Once full grown, each cone contains enough seeds to grow a forest: an average pinecone contains ...

Pine cone fragments are neatly arranged in a circle around the squirrel’s perch. Synchronized conifer masting cycles — or the yearly variation in the number of cones produced — vary by species.

We share how we breed and collect the best cones and extract their seeds for future forests. Rayonier, Thursday, October 13, ... These slim, cylindrical cones are loaded with pollen.