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.

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.

Learn how to make the cutest pine cone Christmas trees, a fun holiday craft idea for kids! This is a great family activity and very easy. Skills Required: None. You’ll be painting pine cones and ...

Evergreen trees that produce cones are called conifers. There are more than 600 species of conifers — which include pines, firs and spruce — each with its own type and size of cones.

You can find many sizes and shapes of cones among the more than 100 kinds of trees in the conifer collection at the Arboretum. Their ancestry is ancient: Conifer fossils go back 300 million years.

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 ...

So, based on the widely observed bumper crop of pine cones this past fall, it's clear 2023 was a mast year for the pines made even more apparent by the overabundance of shredded cone debris on ...

Most pine cone seeds are edible and not poisonous, but experts say Norfolk Island pine and yew trees are not true pine trees and both are toxic and should be avoided. 5 options for pine cones ...

Softwood conifers include pine, spruce, fir, and cedar trees. But despite the name, wood hardness varies among the conifer species. Some softwoods are actually harder than certain hardwoods.

While storms with strong wind gusts over the past five months may have contributed to pine cones falling earlier than usual, “in the end, all cones fall from the tree,” Livingston said. White ...