PlantFiles Pictures: Cook's Pine, New Caledonian Pine (Araucaria columnaris), 1 by Strever

Strever wrote:
here is a pict of the other cones on my tree
they are lower on the tree then the first
there is a better close up of this type in the database
http://plantsdatabase.com/showimage/11956/
after some investigation i find these are the male cones
i don't know how they get the pollen up to the female cones higher in the tree, it would make more since if the males were higher then the females & dropped their pollen down onto the female cones ???

Dick Strever

This message was edited Jul 14, 2004 4:04 PM