Conifer Cone - Gallery

Gallery

  • A pine cone covered in ice after an ice storm.

  • Male cones of a pine

  • A classic example of a Lebanese Cedar cone.

  • Immature female pine cone

  • Pollen cone of a Japanese Larch

  • Pineapple gall on Sitka Spruce caused by Adelges abietis.

  • Dozens of male cones (orange and flower-like) occur in a cluster; the female cone is still immature (olive green). Lodgepole Pine.

  • Blue spruce with cones

  • Young female cones of loblolly pine receptive for pollination.

  • Loblolly pine male cones ready to cast pollen.

  • Cross section of maturing shortleaf pine cone showing seeds (arrows).

  • Loblolly pine branch with cones of different ages; 2-yr old cones will disperse seeds during fall and winter.

  • Cluster of immature pine cones on Fire Island.

  • Cluster of Norway Spruce cones on Hokkaidō.

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