White pine trees are just at busy, but on a different time table. Just now, their needles are a vibrant green. They always are. But up on the highest branches, male cones are developing.

This property, known as hygromorphism, is frequently observed in nature, for example in the opening and closing of the scales of pine cones or the inflorescences of the silver thistle. The ...

Perhaps this is why it was chosen for the design of the silver "pine tree shilling ... will see locally with similar needles and cones is the Bhutan pine, an exotic from the high mountains ...

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 pine trees ...

LANSING, MICH. -- A little extra pocket money in exchange for some pine cones? That’s the deal being offered by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources this fall. Throughout the month of ...