#conifer cones

[pixierainbows]

it look so awful until stop for lunch . and but . now it do look little more like actual snowy conifer cones !

[mmwm]

LINK FEST: 30 JANUARY 2024

Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. short article: Pine Cones: The Complicated Lives of Conifer Seeds (Jenna O’del/Northern Woodlands). Look for squirrels, nuthatches, crossbills, and pine siskins near the fallen cones this year. essay: Cold in New Hampshire, or, How Do Chickadees Not…

[amnhnyc]

Imagine a pinecone as heavy as a bowling ball and the size of a chihuahua. Believe it or not, such pinecones exist—and they belong to the coulter pine (Pinus coulteri), a conifer that can be found in parts of North America including California and Mexico. Infamous among loggers and foresters, this tree is nicknamed "the widowmaker" because of the unlucky individuals who met their fate as a result of its falling pinecones. This species produces the largest pinecones on the planet, weighing up to 11 lbs (5 kg)!

Photo: damontighe, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Friday 8 December 2023

This autumn I saw the cones on Pseudolarix amabilis (golden larch, false larch, golden pine) for the first time. This is a slow-growing, deciduous tree with whorls of light green, linear leaves, which turn bright golden-yellow in autumn.

Jill Raggett

[heaveninawildflower]

Conifers taken from 'Oiseaux et plantes peints à gouache' (circa 1800).

Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie.

[los-plantalones]

China Fir cones.

[rattyexplores]

Cypress Cones

Platycladus orientalis

20/03/23 - NSW

[unkn0wnvariable]

Larch Cones

Cones forming on the branch of a larch tree, in Twywell Plantation.

[victusinveritas]

[crudlynaturephotos]

[blur-from-the-north]

July 2, 2022. Oulu, Finland. Nikon Z fc, Nikkor Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR.

[microgardendesigns]

New cones on a weeping spruce

[warm-poetry]

My photography, please leave credit. :)

[coffeenuts]

Spring cones by Lancè https://flic.kr/p/2njZSY4

[greyphitus]

Orange cone pollen? I know nothing about conifers so this was weird to see. Cheeto fingers…

[we-rule-the-kingdom-inside]

weekends!