Comment on Gomphaceae Consuming A Pinecone. More Examples Inside.

acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• protist@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There are 111 species of Pinus

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  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Looks at username… This guy clades.

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  • the_artic_one@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Plus all the other conifers with cones that get referred to"pinecones".

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• Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  no u

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• the_artic_one@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What’s a normal pinecone?

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  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      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).

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      • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        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 fruit a pinecone. Tasty seeds, though.

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      • protist@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        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:

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