Naturally Speaking White pine’s two cones

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Naturally Speaking White pine’s two cones


Clockwise, two tiny seed cones, top center; a one-year-old larger seed cone, and a cluster of eight tiny pollen cones. (Jerry Davis photo)

Eastern white pine trees are all about cones. Pollen cones, usually tiny, in clusters and near the bottom of a tree, have shed their pollen and fallen from the pine. Some of that pollen was carried by wind to equally tiny seed cones, usually positioned near the tree tops.

 

 


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