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Conifer cone. A mature female big-cone pine (Pinus coulteri) cone, the heaviest pine cone. A young female or seed cone on a Norway spruce (Picea abies) Immature male or pollen cones of Swiss pine (Pinus cembra) A conifer cone or, in formal botanical usage, a strobilus, pl.: strobili, is a seed-bearing organ on gymnosperm plants, especially in ...
Coulter pine. P. subsect. Ponderosae. Coulter pine (Pinus coulteri), or big-cone pine, is a conifer in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae. Coulter pine is a native evergreen conifer that lives up to 100 years of age. [2] Coulter pine occurs in a mediterranean climate. Winter rains are infrequent, and the summer is dry with occasional summer ...
Pinophytina. Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms. Scientifically, they make up the division Pinophyta (/ pɪˈnɒfɪtə, ˈpaɪnoʊfaɪtə /), also known as Coniferophyta (/ ˌkɒnɪfəˈrɒfɪtə, - oʊfaɪtə /) or Coniferae. The division contains a single extant class, Pinopsida.
P. attenuata. Binomial name. Pinus attenuata. Lemmon. The knobcone pine, Pinus attenuata (also called Pinus tuberculata), [2] is a tree that grows in mild climates on poor soils. It ranges from the mountains of southern Oregon to Baja California with the greatest concentration in northern California and the Oregon-California border.
A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus Pinus (/ ˈpaɪnəs /) [1] of the family Pinaceae. Pinus is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. World Flora Online accepts 187 species names of pines as current, with additional synonyms, making it the largest family among the conifers. [2]
Sugar pine is notable for having the longest cones of any conifer, mostly 10–50 cm (4– 19 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) long, [2] [5] exceptionally to 60 cm (23 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long [citation needed] (although the cones of the Coulter pine are more massive); their unripe weight of 1–2 kilograms (2.2–4.4 lb) makes them perilous projectiles when chewed off ...
The leaves snap cleanly when bent; this character, stated as diagnostic for red pine in some texts, is however shared by several other pine species. The cones are symmetrical ovoid, 4–6 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long by 2.5 cm (1 in) broad, and purple before maturity, ripening to nut-blue and opening to 4–5 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 –2 in ...
Taxaceae, yew family (30-50) (approximate number of species in parentheses) Synonyms. Coniferales [3] Coniferophyta [a][3][4] The order Pinales in the division Pinophyta, class Pinopsida, comprises all the extant conifers. The distinguishing characteristic is the reproductive structure known as a cone produced by all Pinales.