Seen near Newport RI. 2 Needles per bundle, very flexible. Washed out looking crown. Cones look like a match from my previous JBP (I am now keeping a collection of cones - I've graduated into total nerdom)
There were LOTS of cones on several of these trees.
Am I right?
Thanks!
I have doubled my total since Friday, I now have collected and labelled a grand total of two. I would have added a third but you shot me down by confirming that this was a species I already had. lol.
Question: I fear my wife will no longer find me desirable if I disclose to her my secret cone collection plan. Any experience hiding this interesting but very unsexy hobby?
Conifer cones make great holiday decorations, singly or in baskets full. Getting a head start is the best approach.
Disclose the cost of purchasing and shipping all of these to Massachusetts - versus you collecting them for free - and all of a sudden you are Husband of the Year.
I bet you can't wait to traipse out to California and pick up a few Pinus lambertiana and Pinus coulteri.
You don't know from sexy...
That would be like when Homer Simpson bought a bowling bowl for Marge on her birthday with his size finger holes. She almost had an affair after that...
Seriously though, those gigantic cones look like pineapples! The cat is a great scale marker.
And his name was Quercus macrocarpa.
May he be playing in that big bowl of cones in the sky...
