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 ...
Female (left) and male spruce cones at the Arnold Arboretum. It's a more common sight to see separate male and female cones like this. (Courtesy William "Ned" Friedman) Every spring the conifer trees ...
The unconventional stands just under 10 feet tall and is made of 162 cones! The bright orange boughs are wrapped in rainbow-colored string lights and topped with a shining star. When the tree went up ...