#fir cone

[danskjavlarna]

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From spooky trees to giant trees to that tree that fell in the forest that no one heard: vintage tree imagery.

[halljavalge]

Source: maaritvaahteranoksa

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[zoeforest]

[riverwindphotography]

Early Spring Blues

(c) riverwindphotography

[adventuresofalgy]

It was the first day of February, but instead of an improvement in the weather as the northern hemisphere of the world approached the spring, there was instead a considerable deterioration. All the blue sky had vanished, and the west Highlands of Scotland had reverted to its more normal state of wild, wet and windy… with cloud cover so dense and complete that Algy could not even see any clouds.

Algy waited for a temporary pause in the precipitation, then jumped up into a small fir tree and reclined for a few moments on its soft needles. As he looked up, a mysterious gleam of light caught the tree's impressive red cones, and he reflected that even on dreich days like this one it was usually possible to find something which lit up the darkness. Recalling the popular poem by Emily Dickinson, Algy decided that the poet was mistaken in this case, for some kind of diadem could perhaps always be found in Nature, even if it were not the one that Ms Dickinson had intended:

The sky is low, the clouds are mean, A travelling flake of snow Across a barn or through a rut Debates if it will go. A narrow wind complains all day How some one treated him; Nature, like us, is sometimes caught Without her diadem.

[Algy is quoting the poem The sky is low by the 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson.]

[orofeaiel]

Fir-Cone Mushrooms

[lindagoesmushrooming]

[los-plantalones]

China Fir cones.

[i-talk-about-plants-to-strangers]

DOUGLAS FIRS AT LONG LAST! SORRY IT TOOK A MINUTE!

Pseudotsuga menziesii, the Douglas fir, was unsurprisingly named after a guy named Douglas. David Douglas. That being said it's not really a fir - not a member of the Abies genus - which is frankly not the part of the name I was expecting to be inaccurate- just kidding the Douglas part of Douglas fir is also a problem! The species name, "P. menziessi" is in reference to this guy named Archibald Menzies who was a rival of David Douglas.

If you like science rivals, google the Bone Wars. Not plants but very neat.

Anyway, Douglas firs are kind of neat for a few reasons: probably my favorite is that instead of having fascicles (leaf clusters) their needles completely wrap around their branches. The needles are also flat which is neat.

Now to talk about cones!! So there's female and male cones - no I do not know if any cones form outside of the gender binary.

Female cones are the ones we'd typically recognize as pinecones: they hang off branches, have notably un-fir-like scales, and have trifid bracts - bracts are like weird shaped leaves involved in plant reproduction. Bad explanation but eh.

And if you look above the lovely and wonderous female cone, you'll find the little male cones that are full of pollen. Male cones are typically lower on the tree, as far as I'm aware, to avoid self-pollination.

All the diagrams I'm finding are bad, so there may be a plant guy talking science update to this in a bit.

[rabbitcruiser]

Pointy

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[february-academia]

15.01.2024

Happy new year everyone!💗

I wish you all experience good things in 2024. and will eat lots of good food as I did on the 13th of January.

[e-paleolith]

fir cone shrooms from work

[halljavalge]

Source: latdetspira

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[christmaswinter]

Pine cones,December 2016

By Aaron Burden

[riverwindphotography]

Douglas Fir cones, mosses, and lichens

(c) riverwindphotography, April 2024

[pauldavidgibson]

Fir Cones Seattle, WA September 2023