Pine cones, female cones, pitch pine tree, Pinus rigida

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Pitch pine Pinus rigida cones The pitch pine is adapted to growing in sandy acidic low nutrient soils This tree shows two closed immature female cones The trees are monoecious but only female cones are visible here

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Photo credit: © MShieldsPhotos / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: closed, cone, cones, conifer, cycle, development, female, gymnosperm, immature, life, megastrobilus, ovulate, pinaceae, pine, pinophyta, pinus, pitch, plant, reproduction, rigida, seed, sexual, sporangia, strobili, strobilus, tree, yellow