We all know what a pine cone is, right? After all, we see them all the time, dangling from trees or scattered on the ground. But what exactly are they? With an appearance like ancient scale mail armor ...

In much of the country, much of the landscape goes barren from fall through spring. Evergreens are typically the workhorse plants that carry us through. But not all evergreens are created equal. A ...

One of the nice things about conifers is that they don’t dump leaves all over your yard in the fall. With the exception of larches, the bald cypress and dawn redwood, conifers — whose name means ...

Fossil conifer cones can still move their individual seed scales after millions of years, biologists have found. The cones analyzed in a new study represent the oldest known plant structures that are ...

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.

Robert Brown (1827) recognized the distinction between the two major classes of seed plants on the basis, respectively, of exposed ovules, which receive pollen directly, and enclosed ovules, which do ...

International Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 159, No. 2 (Mar., 1998), pp. 358-366 (9 pages) Vegetative shoots, ovulate cones, and putative seeds of Conewagia longiloba gen. et sp. nov., a fossil ...

In much of the country, much of the landscape goes barren from fall through spring. Evergreens are typically the workhorse plants that carry us through. But not all evergreens are created equal. A ...

In much of the country, much of the landscape goes barren from fall through spring. Evergreens are typically the workhorse plants that carry us through. In much of the country, much of the landscape ...