Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. In the biology of pine trees, the cone is actually not the seed at all, but a ...

Deep roots allow cone-bearing trees — or 'conifers' — to survive for up to five years of droughts by tapping into groundwater, computer models revealed. Findings from the US-led study help resolve a ...

One of the simplest examples of how plants adapt to ensure that their species survives is found in pine cones. Evergreen trees that produce cones are called conifers. There are more than 600 species ...