Sunday, January 11, 2009

Pine Cone Identification

A recent thrift store find, Decorating for the Holidays: Advent through Twelfth Night, by Harold C. Cook (1976), has two pages on the identification of pine cones (below) and this bit of information:
Nature produces cone crops at irregular intervals. On the average, cone-bearing trees produce crops every three to five years, hence the reason for cone shortages during the off-crop years.
This I did not know!


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1 comment:

  1. AnnMarch 24, 2010 at 10:13 AM

    Thanks for the posting. I found it through Google. The kids and I were trying to figure out what we had collected. This is awesome.

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