A Closed-cone conifer forest or woodland is a plant community occurring in coastal California and several offshore islands. The forests typically have...

A conifer cone, or in formal botanical usage a strobilus, pl.: strobili, is a seed-bearing organ on gymnosperm plants, especially in conifers and cycads...

poison oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum) are typically found. Closed-cone conifer forests are found in small, scattered patches throughout the ecoregion...

Conifers (ˈkɒnɪfər) are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms. Scientifically, they make up the division Pinophyta (/pɪˈnɒfɪtə...

natural fires, such as Douglas fir, chaparral and closed-cone conifer forest habitats, which need fire for cones to open and seeds to sprout, and germinate and...

first protected by being designated as the Lassen Peak Forest Preserve. Lassen Peak and Cinder Cone were later declared as U.S. National Monuments in May...

tremula. Conifer cones and morels after fire in a boreal forest. Moss (Ptilium crista-castrensis) cover on the floor of taiga The boreal forest/taiga supports...

A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus Pinus (/ˈpaɪnəs/) of the family Pinaceae. Pinus is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. World Flora...

boreal forest zone consists of closed-crown conifer forests with a conspicuous deciduous element (Ritchie 1987). The proportions of the dominant conifers (white...

seed cones are 4–7 cm (1+1⁄2–3 in) long and mature in 18–20 months, though they typically remain green and closed for as long as 20 years. Each cone has...

montane forests to the subalpine, but is rare in lowland rain forests. Like all pines (member species of the genus Pinus), it is an evergreen conifer. Depending...

Los Padres National Forest, Angeles National Forest, and San Bernardino National Forest. Mixed conifer and closed-cone pine forests have been heavily impacted...

garden property includes canyons, wetlands, coastal bluffs, and a closed-cone pine forest. The Gardens comprise plant collections suited to its mild coastal...

Pacific Douglas-fir, Oregon pine, or Douglas spruce, is an evergreen conifer native to western North America from west-central British Columbia, Canada...

canariensis, the Canary Island pine, is a species of gymnosperm in the conifer family Pinaceae. It is a large, evergreen tree, native and endemic to the...

class Pinopsida, are cone-bearing seed plants commonly known as conifers; the name comes from the prickles on the female cones. There are three closely...

bands of stomata. The cones are pendulous, slender, cylindrical, 2.5 to 7 cm (1 to 2+3⁄4 in) long and 1.5 cm wide when closed, opening to 2.5 cm broad...

forests (Greece, Turkey, North Macedonia, Bulgaria) Anatolian conifer and deciduous mixed forests (Turkey) Canary Islands dry woodlands and forests (Spain)...

dark purple female cones that bear incurved prickles on their surface. Tree in Inyo National Forest Young Cone Mature Cone pollen cones New growth Bark The...

with other fire-sustaining conifers is reduced. It may also be found sporadically in open montane forests alongside conifer species adapted to similar...

California mixed evergreen forest sub-ecoregion, with California black oaks, closed-cone pines, firs, and other California oaks and conifers. Higher elevations...

Manzanita spp.) that facilitate conifer growth. Closed cone conifers like giant sequoia also do well in these forests. Other plants that can abundantly...

fifth-largest conifer in the world (behind giant sequoia, coast redwood, kauri, and western red cedar), and the third-tallest conifer species (after...

stand-killing fire disturbance. Its cones are serotinous, i.e. they remain closed until opened by the heat of a forest fire; the abundant seeds are then...

or Canaan fir) – bracts subtending seed scales longer, visible on the closed cone. The southeast of the species' range, from southernmost Quebec to West...

distinctly yellowish green. The cones are ovoid conic, 12–24 cm (4+1⁄2–9+1⁄2 in) long and 5–8 cm (2–3 in) broad at the base when closed, green at first, ripening...

County borders Gila County. Conifers and other evergreen plants are the dominant type of vegetation in the Coconino National Forest. Due in part to the dry...

Silvics of North America. Volume 1. Conifers. Agric. Handb. 654. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service: 425-432. "Pinus pungens"...

stand-replacing fires, with the cones remaining closed for many years, until a forest fire kills the mature trees and opens the cones, reseeding the burnt ground...

mice, voles, and shrews eat large quantities of conifer seeds from the forest floor, and clipped cones are a staple and major part of storage of red squirrels...