Finally some starry skies! Orion is beautifully high in the sky with the bright planet Jupiter to its left. Took a walk in the woods and saw this pine cone lying on the ground. Took a close-up of it and the starry sky. The pine cone is the spruce's equivalent of a flower. It acts as a protection for the tree's seeds and reacts to humidity by opening when dry and closing when wet.
Quick facts:
Seed bank: A single pine cone can contain up to 200 seeds.
Maturation: The cones mature during their first autumn and release the seeds during sunny spring and winter days.
Who eats them? Squirrels often gnaw them clean, while woodpeckers wedge them into the bark to get to the seeds.
Cone year: The spruce produces abundant cones about every five to seven years, which is called a cone year.
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