A Lijiang spruce at the Arnold Arboretum has produced a rare batch of cones that are half male, half female. Typically the tree would have separate pollen-producing male cones and other seed ...

Red squirrels do well in an abundant year for spruce and balsam cones, eating as many as fifty a day. Introduced to Newfoundland for the first time in the 1960s, squirrels eat as much as two ...

For those who suffer from seasonal allergies, spring means red eyes, mucus and fits of sneezing. This year, the Lynn Canal has seen a remarkable tree pollen bloom.

There seems to be an unbelievable bumper crop of spruce cones both in trees and on lawns this spring. Their abundance has been quite a topic of conversation, at least in my circles. It is coneucopia!

Fall is the perfect time to pick pine cones, especially after a good wind knocks them to the ground. However, beware if you visit the mountains along the California coast on a windy day: The ...

Red spruce trees have reddish-brown cones that grow to one and a half inches long and hang decoratively from green-needled twigs. They soon fall to the ground after reaching maturity, however.

Red squirrels seems to know when a big year of spruce seeds is coming — and begin reproducing in advance. (Ned Rozell) Stan Boutin has climbed more than 5,000 spruce trees in the last 30 years.

Nov. 20, 2022. MOAB, Utah — Blake Votilla stared up at the 120-foot spruce tree. He strapped braces with four-inch spurs to his shins and clipped two large red plastic sacks on his climbing harness.

The pine cone was so huge that as I passed a garage sale near home, I could see it from the road. And I knew I had to have it. Best of all, this wasn’t really a sale, rather a large pile of ...