I'm thinking the baby pine cones are on a white pine? We have a number of 60 ft blue spruce across the way which litter our yard with cones every time there is a strong wind. [but I've never investigated their appearance as cone youngsters]
BB, I didn't think to count the needles in a cluster (should be 5 for white pine), but the book I'm looking at now--strangely, it's TREES OF PENNSYLVANIA, but the drawings and photographs are very good--tells me that we're probably looking here at a "branch with staminate flowers."
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I'm thinking the baby pine cones are on a
ReplyDeletewhite pine? We have a number of 60 ft blue
spruce across the way which litter our yard
with cones every time there is a strong wind.
[but I've never investigated their appearance
as cone youngsters]
BB, I didn't think to count the needles in a cluster (should be 5 for white pine), but the book I'm looking at now--strangely, it's TREES OF PENNSYLVANIA, but the drawings and photographs are very good--tells me that we're probably looking here at a "branch with staminate flowers."
ReplyDeleteLovely. So nice Sara gets to roam with you!
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