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A tree's seed vault, built to stay shut until fire tells it otherwise.
means The woody, scaled seed-bearing structure produced by pine and other conifer trees.
from 'Pine' traces back to Latin 'pinus,' naming the tree itself. 'Cone' comes from Greek 'konos' via Latin 'conus,' originally meaning a geometric solid pointed at one end — the shape that gave both the pastry cone and the volcano their names. So a pine cone is literally a 'pine's cone-shape,' the word simply describing the object's geometry long before botanists understood what the scales were actually for.
- scale geometry
- Spirals follow Fibonacci numbers almost exactly
- serotiny trick
- Some species only open after wildfire heat
- humidity sensor
- Scales close in rain, open in dry air
- not a fruit
- It is the tree's actual seed-bearing organ