Plus all the other conifers with cones that get referred to as "pinecones".
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Zachariah @lemmy.world - 3mon
no u
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the_artic_one @programming.dev - 3mon
What's a normal pinecone?
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acockworkorange - 3mon
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.
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the_artic_one @programming.dev - 3mon
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.
Pirky in mycology
Gomphaceae Consuming A Pinecone. More Examples Inside.
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a8c4d68f-7f5d-4768-8423-b92f6d26de78.jpeg
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2ce06375-f8ee-4afe-9ca4-9a4421016c67.jpeg
Pretty cool
That's a weird pinecone.
There are 111 species of Pinus
Looks at username... This guy clades.
Plus all the other conifers with cones that get referred to as "pinecones".
no u
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).
https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/eb15fe38-ddea-4351-95ef-ca0588261e04.jpeg
Source
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.
¹: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FIGQfFEWVTs/VzEcO_Xck6I/AAAAAAAAAGM/S0YBMPFUFK0B_Z0-Y-d80Amn7OY5OGMPwCLcB/s1600/KN006853.jpg
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:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/46/8c/dc/468cdcf5322d8832b535532f07047816.jpg
and that is how you Pickle The Pinecone