Here’s a chart from the Pacific Northwest. Only the top left quarter are actual pine cones but if you asked someone here what a “regular pinecone” is, they’d probably pick the Douglas fir cone (though TBF, “what kind of tree is a Douglas fir?” mystified science for decades).
Oh that’s cool! The Poderosa pine is the only one I recognize, and I think that’s because of a misguided attempt at “reforestation” that used this non native plant. The Araucária is the only native pine-like I know, but I don’t know whether you’d call its massive dry fruit¹ a pinecone. Tasty seeds, though.
What’s a normal pinecone?
The thin spindly ones? I’m from south of the equator, we don’t have a huge variety of pines here. Never seen anything like that.
Here’s a chart from the Pacific Northwest. Only the top left quarter are actual pine cones but if you asked someone here what a “regular pinecone” is, they’d probably pick the Douglas fir cone (though TBF, “what kind of tree is a Douglas fir?” mystified science for decades).
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Oh that’s cool! The Poderosa pine is the only one I recognize, and I think that’s because of a misguided attempt at “reforestation” that used this non native plant. The Araucária is the only native pine-like I know, but I don’t know whether you’d call its massive dry fruit¹ a pinecone. Tasty seeds, though.
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Being from Texas, all of these look strange to me. If you ask us what a “regular pine cone” is, people would definitely point to a loblolly pine: