Up above, trees are gloriously busy right now, their leaves a radiant green in the sunshine. They're gleefully photosynthesizing with all their might, but that's not all that those trees are doing.

A pine cone encased in amber for 40 million years is the first evidence of a rare botanical condition that has only been observed one other time in the conifer in 1965. The frozen scene shows the pine ...

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.

Spruce pine cones dating back 50,000 years and found in a grayish clay wall at a beach on Bodega Head may be used to sprout a new tree. It may sound a bit like ”Jurassic Park,” but getting ancient ...

FORT COLLINS — Beanie Babies and Pokemon cards were all the rage among trading types in the 1990s. Today, another hot commodity has fallen quiet and out of the sight of most: pine cones. That’s right, ...

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 ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon State University research has uncovered the first fossil evidence of a rare botanical condition known as precocious germination in which seeds sprout before leaving the ...

South Bend Tribune: 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 ...

ALONG THE BURNT MESA TRAIL, N.M. — With snow ready to fall, the scramble was on to collect as many ponderosa pine cones as possible. A crew outfitted with spurs, ropes and hard hats scaled hefty tree ...

Ponderosa pine is a tree that grows in Washington generally on the east side of the Cascades. JBLM is the only place in Western Washington where you can find the ponderosa pine. It may occur here due ...