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.

Many people imagine that pine cones—or the individual scales within the pine cone—are the tree's seeds, and by planting the pine cone you can grow a new pine tree.

Up above, trees are gloriously busy right now, their leaves a radiant green in the sunshine. They're gleefully photosynthesizing with all their might, but that's not all that those trees are doing ...

Conifers are cone-bearing trees that produce tiny pollen cones in spring followed later by more substantial woody seed cones whose scales each contain two or more seeds.

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Scientists discovered a strange reproductive method in primitive cycad plants: The plants heat up and emit a toxic odor to drive pollen-covered insects out of male cycad cones, and then use a ...

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.

Sherman’s client, a timber company, wants him to inject its trees with gibberellic acid to stimulate cone production. The goal is seeds that will grow into new forests more resistant to insects ...

Viable seeds are held dormant within serotinous woody follicles on large infructescences (cones) in the crown of plants for more than 5 years, and up to 12 years of seed production may be stored ...

Question: I would like some suggestions for what to do with all the pine cones that fall in my yard from the pine trees (other than just burning them, which There's not much use for pine cones ...