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 ...

MY YARD IS FULL of eastern white pine trees, and every three years or so, it is full of pine cones. This is one of those years. Pine cones have fallen all over the yard, the sidewalk, the driveway.

Witch's brooms are compact, rounded collections of short needles and small cones. They can sometimes make up the entire leafy crown of a tree. Staff at North Carolina State University are asking for ...

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 ...

From a handful of pine cones found by Aussie diggers at Gallipoli comes a living forest of war memorials. Turkish troops had felled nearby pines to fortify their trenches and only a solitary tree ...

Q: I have three large pine trees in front of my house emerging from pretty sizeable mulch beds. My beacon silver, hostas, periwinkle and hydrangea seem to be as happy as clams living in this area, and ...

For thousands of years, one tree species defined the cultural and ecological identity of what is now the American South: the ...

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 ...

The seeds of maritime pines remember the temperatures they experienced during early development. This memory persists in young trees for at least two years after germination. The above discovery was ...

Support journalism that digs deeper into topics that matter most to ArkLaTex. Donate today to preserve the quality and integrity of local journalism. A tree in Arkansas' Historic Washington State Park ...

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 ...