Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. In the biology of pine trees, the cone is actually not the seed at all, but a ...

Pine cones, in a way, made Minnesota what it is today. In the state's early colonial history, our towering white pines became the backbone of the lumber industry that Minnesota's major cities were ...

One of the simplest examples of how plants adapt to ensure that their species survives is found in pine cones. Evergreen trees that produce cones are called conifers. There are more than 600 species ...

Look up the next time you pass a pine tree in Michiana — chances are it's loaded with cones. Conditions this season are ripe for an abundance of these woody reproductive organs of pine trees, and they ...

New research has uncovered the first fossil evidence of a rare botanical condition known as precocious germination in which seeds sprout before leaving the fruit. Oregon State University research has ...

Samaras were helicoptering down and everyone was scrambling to get them. As ponderosa pines develop seeds in cones, a long wing is attached that slows their descent through the air. Poets say this is ...

People walking through the woods can kick pine cones — unless you make wreaths, what else would you do with them? Especially in a mast year when the evergreens go into reproductive overdrive, their ...